Walking in fear

April 14, 2026

To take just a few out-of-order examples, we have recently seen the expulsion of the Iranian diplomats from Canberra, the abandonment of the Adelaide Writers’ Week, the targeting of Iranian holders of valid Australian visitor visas, the persecution of Mary Kostakidas, the imposition of an extra-judicial and extra-academic oversight on Australian universities, the invitation to the President of a genocide-enabling West Asian regime to address our National Press Club and now the defunding of the Grace Tame Foundation. All of this at the behest of the Israel Lobby which represents 0.4% to 1.0% of Australia’s population.

Our media, our government, our arts, our universities and much of our social media walk in fear. They have been intimidated and captured by an unelected, unrepresentative body working at the behest of a foreign power. If 60% of Australians rejected the notion of an Indigenous Voice which would have spoken for about 4% of Australia’s population, I wonder how many Australians would reject the notion of Zionist gatekeepers who speak for barely a quarter of that?