Antisemitism is real - but not as weaponised

May 25, 2026

In over 70 years of my life, with many, many wonderful Jewish friends of the family, I was made aware of antisemitism in perhaps a handful of instances.

But there is an invasive armada of Zionist protagonists seeking advantage who weaponise antisemitism for their advantage. They declare ‘antisemitic’ actions vociferously and we - including the Commissioner of Inquiry into Antisemitism - are expected to uncritically accept their assertions.

The ‘Jewish Lobby’ groups - those who seek to bend Australia’s social cohesion to their will - number a declared 200 by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, that declares itself with no verification as the peak Council of Australian Jews.

There are less than 100,000 self-declared Jews in Australia, that means on average each of these bodies has around 500 members.

Two serious works of analysis need to be read to gain a better understanding of the work of the Zionist lobby:

John Mearscheimer and Stephen Walt’s: The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy; and Norman Finkelstein’s: ‘The Holocaust Industry’

The inevitable conclusion is that the broadest possible extension of a definition of antisemitism supports the Zionist aspiration rather than social justice.