Does David Crowe, a journalist at the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and the Age want to be regarded as the instigator of violence against students protesting the Gazan genocide?

I read a series of David Crowe’s vituperative articles regarding student protests against the Palestinian genocide occurring right now in Gaza, including the latest titled “When uni students endorse terror, it’s time for political intervention”.

Here is my response.

I am a child of Holocaust survivors and you can find some of my poems and writings about this genocide in the journal Pearls and Irritations.

I also note here that I grew up in Poland and am quite familiar with your type of demagogic journalism, albeit when I was growing up Stalinist demagoguery was already gone and dead.

And yet, it appears it’s well and alive in Australia particularly in your slanderous articles about young idealistic students who today represent the moral conscience of the world against this war of annihilation waged by the ethno-nationalist and ethno-cleansing Israeli Apartheid regime.

I further note that as I read your abusive articles about the student encampments at Australian universities, I was also reminded of the language of McCarthyism which, of course, bears a very close resemblance to the language of the Stalinist Moscow Trials.

My advice to you is to talk to some of the idealistic young people present at these encampments and to cease goading Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to send in the police and violently attack these young idealistic students.

I urge you to rethink: surely, you do not want to be regarded as the instigator of violence against these protesters by the journalistic and wider community.