Jeff Polley

Scoop - this could save the Australian govt millions in resources. Just in case Jillian Segal, Albo, et al were wondering where the rise in anti-lsrael sentiment is coming from. It's not caused by the ABC or SBS or progressives or anybody else. It's driven by lsrael itself. .

Next is Segal presuming to analyse the "drivers" or the sources of her alleged rise in antisemitism - this is indeed what all of this is about, is it not? At last Australians will get to see what one of the core drivers is in the alleged rise in 'antisemitism' - namely, Israel's horrific and never-ending attacks on Palestinians and Israel's increasing interference in the democracies of the world and their attempt to dominate and infiltrate our every day discourse. Nope. Not a word. Despite Israel being constantly and conveniently conflated and transposed with Jewishness throughout the report, any mention of Israel the nation state's actions are strangely absent from any alleged drivers of antisemitism. It's as if the revulsion towards Israel's actions and the world's rising antagonism towards Israel has just floated down out of the sky inside a magic bubble, completely disconnected from any actions of Israel itself. Rather, antisemitism's alleged rise is dumped at the feet of 'progressives' and other nasty human rights advocates - the very last people to be identifying with racism of any kind. As usual, Segal has provided no evidence of her claims, no citations, no independent assessment other than her feelpinions and drawing upon a statement ASIO's Mike Burgess made about violent extremists (which was NOT a statement about progressives being responsible for antisemitism) to justify her outrageous claim that it is somehow progressives who are responsible for the hatred and drivers of antisemitism - not Israel itself. .