By omitting any mention of Israels actions, the Jewish Councils latest report on antisemitism obscures the true source of rising hostility, writes DrEvan Jones.
ON 3 DECEMBER, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) issued its now annual report on antisemitic incidents in Australia, the 33-pageAnti-Jewish Incidents.
The report documents some loathsome actions and verbal abuse towards members of the Australian Jewish community.
However, there is a marked lacuna in the report.
Israel. Its not there.
Save for reference to evil Irans intent towards Israel:
Jillian Segal's report turns criticism of Israel into a punishable offenceSegals report recasts anti-Zionism as hate policing schools, agencies and visas while punishing dissent across public life.
It would help neighbourly relations if Israel (and the U.S. under Israels instructions) stopped assassinating Iranian leaders and scientists.
More, if Iran was targeting the entire Jewish people, one would think that it would start with its resident Jewish community. But no. Even the Jewish media thinks otherwise. Here is IsraelsIsrael Hayom(a free daily paper), reproduced onJewish News Service, commenting on the robustness of that community (albeit now smaller) in Iran.
The author notes, interviewing an Iranian-born Jewish Israeli:
Unheard of! Whats wrong with these people? What if that mentality spreads elsewhere?
Julie Nathan, the author of the report, has been punctilious in her presentation of detail. But she has failed to join the dots.
I see no genocide.
Some of the antisemitic graffiti says Fuck Israel. And for good reason. Nothing antisemitic here. Israel is an abomination. Led by pathological monsters, underpinned by brainwashed killers in uniform (AKAthe most moral army in the world) inveterate child killers. Yes, pathological child killers. All buttressed by settler crazies (many emanating from the diaspora), given carte blanche for carnage in the Occupied Territories, now extending to Syrian and Lebanese territory.
The vaunted biblical Judea and Samaria evidently have latter-day elastic boundaries.
If Einstein spoke today, he would be accused of antisemitismAlbert Einstein warned that Zionism betrayed Jewish ethics today his critique would be branded antisemitic, provingtruth has beensilenced for power.
But Israels modus operandi has been inscribed in its colonising conception, implemented by terrorism in 1947-49 and embedded in its apartheid character since, with a new burst of zealotry post-1967.
Not a single Australian Jewish organisation with Zionist proclivities (most of them) has renounced support for this foreign rogue state. No individual leader of any such organisation has resigned in protest and disgust. No Jewish school has publicly renounced and removed from its masthead a devotion to Israel. All have had 77 years to discover the nature of the beast.
Anti-Zionist Jews are attacked for their betrayal of the self-described official Jewish communities dominant cause.
Thus didMark Leibler tweeton 8 February 2025:
The tweet has since been taken down, but it has been reproducedhere.
The ECAJ report bears a similarity to the Report of Australias Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (theSegal Report) to the Government in July 2025. I analysed the Segal Report in two partshereandhere.
In the first part, I noted:
The ECAJ report is more of the same.
Jillian Segal's report on antisemitism is designed to muzzle critics of IsraelThe report by Australias Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism contains only one mention of Israel in the entire text an embarrassment to our Government.
The ABCreportedreadily on the ECAJ report. There is also no acknowledgement of the anomaly of the missing Israel.
Instead, we have all the players scratching their heads about whence comes this perfidy of rampant antisemitism. Says ECAJs CEOAlex Ryvchin, antisemitismremainsat deeply troubling levels. Is it innate?
Ryvchin is further reported thus:
One infers that there is no sense of causality amongst Australian Zionists and their organisational leadership. They are well educated, so why the dearth of understanding?
The root cause of their insecurity is the criminality of Israel itself to repeat, a foreign rogue state. Why isnt every Australian Jew, for their sense of self, their sense of belonging in Australian society, denouncing Israel from the rooftops?
On ECAJs website, its priorities are transparently displayed. UnderPolicies, the eyes are drawn to Section 3 Israel and International Affairs. There, the reader discovers the 100 per cent commitment of the organisation to this foreign entity that is the root cause of their insecurity.
ECAJ throws in the fig-leaf two-states for two peoples, to be only resolved through direct negotiations, which honest people know is a non-starter.
The membership of ECAJ and other Australian Zionist organisations is not victims but complicit in the ongoing Palestinian Holocaust.
The solution is obvious. Dismantle apartheid Israel and lets see what happens to reported antisemitic incidents.
DrEvan Jonesis a political economist and former academic.
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