{"id":54728,"date":"2026-11-15T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T03:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=54728"},"modified":"2026-11-15T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T03:52:21","slug":"the-struggle-is-real-with-jillian-segal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=54728","title":{"rendered":"The struggle is real with Jillian Segal."},"content":{"rendered":"

See also<\/em> : Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group \u201cAdvance\u201d<\/a>, Anthony Klan, The Klaxon, July 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

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Jillian Segal — the South African\u2013born Australian lawyer, business executive, and Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism — recently dropped another Report, ASECA Priorities<\/a>. According to the Special Envoy, a newly-hatched \u201cmodern progressive antisemitism\u201d … is taking \u201cthe hostility of Islamic extremism and far-left antisemitism, together with traditional antisemitic tropes\u201d.<\/p>\n

My first reaction on reading this passage was to recall the unforgettable 2014 framing by the Australian Defence League of the alleged \u201cevil anarcho-pinko-anarchist-islamic cabal of dirt\u201d<\/a>; the wicked coalition then allegedly intent on turning Penrith into a no-go zone<\/a> for patriots.<\/p>\n

Fuckin’ poetry, that!<\/p>\n

In any case, inre the Report, Jeffrey Loewenstein doesn’t hold back in It\u2019s time to sack Jillian Segal<\/a> (Deepcut News, November 2, 2026), the Jewish Council of Australia (October 30, 2026) has slammed it<\/a>, and Jeff Sparrow has characterised it, not unfairly, as a Trumpian plan to curtail free speech<\/a> (Crikey, November 2, 2026). The Report is also subject to critical scrutiny by Robert Manne, who examines it in On the Rise of Antisemitism in Australia<\/a> (November 8, 2026), along with the thoughts of Lord Andrew Roberts and Sir Simon Schama on the subject of ‘antisemitism’. Manne concludes that:<\/p>\n

Schama believes he can help combat the rise of antisemitism in the Diaspora by defending the indefensible, the war crimes of the IDF under Benjamin Netanyahu. I believe a more likely remedy would be for leading Diaspora thinkers, like Schama, and influential publishers, like Morry Schwartz, and the leaders in Australia of the principal Israel and Jewish lobbies, like Jillian Segal, to speak the truth about what, under Netanyahu and the two Kahanist-fascist members of his Government, Israel has become, and the moral revolution that has to happen in Israel if Jews in the Diaspora are to be spared from the dreadful rise of antisemitism that is spreading around the Western world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FWIW, for over 20 years I’ve been attempting, inter alia<\/em>, to monitor and document organised, public expressions of antisemitism and other racisms in Australia — the better to disrupt it. I’m also an anarchist, and one of many people to hold the view that the Israeli state has engaged in a genocidal assault<\/a> upon Palestine in the three years since October 7 (the latest chapter in a much longer history of deadly state violence). On that basis, I assume that Segal et. al. would categorise myself as an exponent of ‘far-left antisemitism’, the meaning of which is elaborated upon in this passage:<\/p>\n

Far-left antisemitism or issue-motivated antisemitism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Far-left ideology and associated activism feature a worldview that casts the world in terms of ‘oppressors\u2019 and \u2018oppressed\u2019. Within this binary framework, Israel is portrayed as a colonial project that is inherently racist and Jews who support Israel\u2019s existence are portrayed as representatives of \u2018whiteness\u2019 (regardless of their ethnicity), privilege (regardless of their means), imperialism (notwithstanding the absence of an empire), greedy capitalism and the projection of Western power.<\/p>\n

This framing allows longstanding antisemitic motifs to be repackaged in the academic language<\/a> of anti-racism, decolonisation, human rights, social justice and intersectionality, often in service of a traditional Marxist revolutionary agenda.<\/p>\n

When a cause is believed \u2013 with ideological fervour \u2013 to be absolutely just, its ends can come to justify any means and its adherents can feel free to vilify, harass and seek to destroy those who associate with what is framed as evil.<\/p>\n

Over time, the language of human rights and its greatest crimes \u2013 apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc. \u2013 has increasingly been appropriated to portray Israel (and, relevantly, members of the Jewish community who support it) as morally evil, often to the point of being equated to Nazis.<\/p>\n

In contemporary Australia, elements of Australia\u2019s historically fringe radical left have sought to appeal to well-meaning mainstream progressive Australians who may perceive the Palestinian cause as a matter of social justice. This \u2018gateway\u2019 issue, of sorts, has been used by far-left activists to magnify their appeal and prominence and to attempt to introduce traditionally moderate Australians to radical and anti-Jewish propaganda that would previously have been of little interest.<\/p>\n

The strange \u2013 but not unprecedented \u2013 alignment of Islamic extremist antisemitism in the modern day combined with far-left extremism finds a common ground in 3 things:<\/p>\n

\u2022 an extreme hatred of Israel, including a desire to eliminate it<\/p>\n

\u2022 the representation of Israel as a kind of uniquely evil, demonic, cruel force in the world<\/p>\n

\u2022 a conspiratorial view of Israel and Zionism and of Jews as controlling Western governments, undermining Islam and causing world war.<\/p>\n

Despite their many obvious ideological differences, the 2 groups coalesce around a shared desire to undermine or overturn the existing social structures and institutions of Western societies, including moderate political consensus and social cohesion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where to begin with this ideological porridge? If I was to address all its specious claims and historical revisionism in detail, I’d be writing many thousands more words, drawn from millions more, written by some very smart people, over a very long period of time. Instead, I’ll just note the following:<\/p>\n

I started writing this on the 88th anniversary of Reichskristallnacht<\/em>, the orgy of antisemitic violence that characterised November 9–10, 1938 in Nazi Germany. The events signalled a further dark turn in Nazi antisemitism, and was ‘the culmination of a third wave of antisemitic violence — worse than those of 1933 and 1935 — that had begun in the spring of 1938 and run on as the domestic accompaniment to the foreign-political crisis throughout the summer and autumn’ (Kershaw<\/a>, p.131). In this context, I can remember being struck by the image that accompanied the double-page spread in the September 1993 edition of Love & Rage<\/em> (by the North American Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation<\/a>: 1989–1998), which loudly declares:<\/p>\n

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