Letter

In response to Antisemitism inquiry interim report: we don’t need more terror laws – we need gu

Self-sabotaged antisemitism commission

Greg Barns has missed the main failure of the Interim Report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion - to not engage with the meaning of antisemitism and free speech. The Report is proceeding with its sabotage of free speech. The report refers to a ‘sharp rise in antisemitism incidents’ without defining antisemitism. Yet, the Commission’s definition of antisemitism is critical to the purpose of the Commission. The Interim Report should have revealed what it currently defines as antisemitism. Will the Final Report define antisemitism as criticism of the Government of Israel? Will the Final Report explicitly or implicitly conclude that criticism of Israel’s apartheid system, its ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians, is antisemitism?

— David Griffiths from Mordialoc, Victoria 3195