Australia defends action on antisemitism after Netanyahu criticism

If you have wars in the Mid East like we do now, hate crimes with Jews and Arabs will spike everywhere across the globe.

Let's hope we can get back to peace soon in Mid East and elsewhere. We all remember peace was breaking out in Mid East under Trump Admin with the historic Abrams accords being signed.

Biden Admin's not only failed to build on this success but has also managed to lose a great deal of ground sadly.

HopeSpringsEternal

Let's hope we can get back to peace soon in Mid East and elsewhere. We all remember peace was breaking out in Mid East under Trump Admin with the historic Abrams accords being signed.

Biden Admin's not only failed to build on this success but has also managed to lose a great deal of ground sadly.

Exactly. Trump should have deserved a Nobel prize for the Abraham accords; then the Biden came in like a clueless hyper-active and aggressive child and destroyed everything.

I doubt Trump can erase the damage done by he Biden regime (lost trust; from the Saudi perspective it is a case of "fool me once"...), but at least he again de-fund the jihadis and put a lid on the conflict.

Netanyahu accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor government of encouraging crimes such as Friday's attack on the Adass Israel synagogue through policies including support of a recent U.N. motion backing a Palestinian state.

The leader of Israel doesnt know his head from his feet. Both sides of Australian politics has backed Israel for decades without exception. Just wanting to attain a two state solution does not encourage crimes against anyone. If anything this is a result of his continuing poor leadership and the genocide he wages against Palestinians in order to deny them a state of their own. Why would Hamas recognize an Israel that refuses to allow the creation of Palestine?

I would have thought that it was Netanyahu who was encouraging crimes such as Friday's attack on the Adass Israel synagogue through his policies including the genocide of the Palestinian people,

One must be careful not to conflate opposition to a country’s government policies with opposition to its people’s beliefs

Dear Bibi, just look in the Mirror. Antisemitism is your Anti Peace, Anti Arabs, Anti Muslims, and Anti Palestinians.

Bibi and his government has done more damage to Jews and Israel than any other person in modern history.

You can criticize a Jew for things you disagree with (and he/she/they can criticize anyone else) and still be against anti-semitism, especially when being critical of the current Israeli government. The idea that anything you say in criticism of the aforementioned is anti-Semitic is just moronic and of course, sparks a backlash. Now, if you're simply criticising Judaism, Israel, and what have you, that's another story, but that's not what Australia has done.

Antisemitism and anti Zionism should not be confused.

Zionism, the belief that Jews and only Jews have a special right is pure racism and should be opposed at every chance. Just change Jews to Whites and see how it reads.

Next, a Palestinian person breathing will be accused of anti-semitism.

The suggestion that advocacy of the two-state solution for the former Palestinian Mandate is anti-semitic is repugnant. Both Jews and non-Jews should have rights, not just Jews.

Having said that, I can see how the recent indiscriminate murders of Jews and non-Jews by invading Palestinians from Gaza would drive Israelis insane. It is a blatant reminder of the Holocaust.

Mr Kipling

Zionism, the belief that Jews and only Jews have a special right is pure racism and should be opposed at every chance. Just change Jews to Whites and see how it reads.

That is not the definition of "Zionism". Where did you get that snippet of misinformation from?

I wonder why there are so many hate crimes against Jews. The murder of thousands of innocent children and others by the genocidal jewish military regime of Israel, maybe that's why.