{"id":53916,"date":"2026-01-05T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=53916"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:34:48","slug":"would-the-real-antisemites-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=53916","title":{"rendered":"Would the real antisemites please stand up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My last post — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times : Australian Nazis in 2025<\/a> — mostly concerned Tom Sewell’s gang, the National Socialist Network (NSN). In it, passing reference was made to the Bondi Beach mass shooting<\/a>, but only in terms of its likely effects upon the policing of the group. Three weeks after that terrible event, however, I thought I’d write a few lines about it; or rather, share some of the thoughts of others that, for one reason or another, I think are notable. Oh, and take the opportunity to add that, sadly, Bondi resident and leading NSN member Joel Davis remains in Long Bay prison and — having been charged with a number of additional offences since his initial arrest — will RETVRN to court next week (where he will be ably represented by Matthew Hopkins<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To begin with, the Jewish Council of Australia<\/a> (JCA) provides an alternative to the established ‘pro-Israel’ voices that dominate ‘mainstream’ (that is, corporate and state-owned) media discourse. In response to the shooting the JCA has, inter alia<\/em>, published (December 22) an online petition<\/a> ‘in solidarity with Jewish people standing against politicians and lobbyists who are exploiting the Bondi Chanukah massacre to push a divisive agenda’:<\/p>\n

Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce<\/a> have targeted our Muslim and Palestinian friends, families and neighbours. Benjamin Netanyahu and Jillian Segal are pushing to erode civil liberties and attack those who peacefully protest genocide. Andrew Hastie and Josh Frydenberg are attempting to score political points by attacking migrant communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the online petition dropped, Hastie — often portrayed<\/a> as being The M.A.N. Most Likely to replace SuSSan Ley as leader (whenever the Tories decide her shtick has run its course) — has reportedly crowdfunded $260,000<\/a> in order to mount a propaganda campaign against ‘immigration’\/migrant workers. Naturally, in this attempt to Make Australia Great Again\u2122, he’s been joined by right-wing corporate lobby group Advance and, well, All The Usual Suspects.<\/p>\n

As many others have remarked, even a cursory examination reveals that MAGA sentiment is widespread in the illiberal Liberal Party, which has successfully evacuated any liberal influence from its leadership and dwindling membership. As such, and leaving aside numerous right-wing micro-parties, in 2026 the party faces its stiffest competition from PHONy, to which former Coalition partner Barnaby Joyce has recently (and I’m sure entirely soberly<\/a>) crawled. And whereas the Hansonism of yesteryear was rejected by local Zionist institutions (see<\/em> : AIJAC<\/a>), in 2025 her performative embrace of Israel (and ‘Palestine and Hamas are not two separate identities, they are one and the same’<\/a>, etc., etc., etc.), has made ample space for her political rehabilitation, her rank prejudices notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

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In any case, it hardly needs to be said that the creation of the JCA and its articulation of an alternative Jewish perspective is considered very unwelcome by Zionists. For example: JCA advisory committee member Antony Loewenstein<\/a> was recently identified by the Israeli Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism as one of the Top Ten generators of antisemitism in Australia. (Curiously — and rather like Australia\u2019s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism — the NSN figures nowhere in the Ministry’s calculus.) Still, if I was conferring awards for chutzpah<\/em>, the Australian Jewish Association would be a contender. Amichai Chikli<\/a>, whose Ministry designated Lowenstein an antisemite:<\/p>\n

… traveled to Australia shortly after the Bondi Beach attack, saying he wanted to stand in solidarity with the country\u2019s Jewish community. During his visit, he participated in a solidarity event in Bondi hosted by the Australia-Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and the Australian Jewish Association, according to organizers.<\/p>\n

The event was held at Chabad Bondi and was attended by former Australian prime ministers Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison, both of whom have previously spoken out against antisemitism and in support of the Jewish community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chikli’s successful visit may or may not be an improvement upon the AJA’s failed attempt to tour Lauren ‘The Great Replacement’ Southern through Bondi in 2018. Her promotion of the thesis bore fruit when in March 2019 an Australian murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch, and justified the atrocity by reference to her thesis (a derivative<\/a> of Camus’ meisterwerk<\/em>). Her security detail on that tour consisted of members of The Lads Society, to which its leader, Tom Sewell, tried to recruit the killer; the grouplet later evolved into the NSN, an explicitly neo-Nazi organisation that, according to Chikli’s Ministry, does less to promote antisemitism than Lowenstein does.<\/p>\n

Morbid symptoms indeed.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Robert Manne reckons<\/a> that the ‘response of the Albanese government to the Bondi massacre and the formation of the anti-Albanese alliance has been both clumsy and rather pathetic’, and struggles to understand ‘the strange atmosphere of strictly enforced unreality that has accompanied the growth of antisemitic sentiment in Australia since October 7’, one reflected in this ‘Bondi alliance’. And while Manne was deeply saddened by the massacre, Matt Chun has boldly declared of the dead that ‘We don’t mourn fascists’<\/a>, and thereby triggered a predictable reaction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ho hum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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