A provocative Royal Commission submission by DrEvan Jonesargues that Australias antisemitism debate cannot be separated from Israel, Zionism and their political influence.

Submission to theRoyal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion

Part 1

General

This submission can be reduced to one word Israel.

There you have the answer to your inquiry. Dismantle apartheid Israel and see so-called antisemitism disappear overnight, save for a small ineradicable but prosecutable fringe.

There is really no reason for this Royal Commission at all, as the problem is self-evident. The Commission will not solve the problem that it was formally established to resolve because its agenda is diversionary. Indeed, it will compound the problem because it will, in all probability (as it is seemingly intended to do), reinforce the influence of the Australian Zionist lobby and thus the ongoing impunity of Israel.

The problem arises from the conflation of two forces.

Zionist is a foreign language. It is not readily accessible, because it seems to be counter-intuitive. writes Dr Evan Jones.

One:Israel is a nation founded on terrorism and wilfully sustained on deep-seated racism.

We know that nation-states are perennially born of violence, expropriation and repression (Australia as a case study), but Israel is a pronounced variation on a common colonialist theme. Israel was born of naked terrorism against an entire (non-Jewish) indigenous population. It was explicitly created and has been sustained as a racist apartheid state. Its borders have never been determined, envisaging ongoing expansion (lebensraum) from the river to the sea(and beyond).

Palestinian Israelis (descendants of those whom the Zionist terrorist gangs failed to expel) are second-class citizens. Palestinian non-Israelis, under Occupation and under martial law, are denied the most basic human rights. Gaza has been a concentration camp since Sharon supposedly disengaged from Gaza in 2005.

The sadistic murder of Gazans since October 2023 is reminiscent of the Germans feverish pursuit of Jews and Bolsheviks afterOperation Barbarossain June 1941. Israel has long undermined United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) personnel and facilities, which attempt to instil a modicum of humanity into a population long starving from Israeli blockages. Israel endorses carnage by fanatical settlers on West Bank Palestinians, murdering and destroying Palestinian livelihoods at will for which they enjoy absolute immunity.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) murder children with pleasure. Children are imprisoned indefinitely for throwing stones. Adult prisoners are tortured and murdered. Israel wilfully murders foreign dignitaries (most recently, the Iranian National Security Council chiefAli Larijani, reputed moderate and skilled negotiator), which highlights that mass murdererBenjamin Netanyahuhas put to words what has been the manifesto of all Israeli leadership: there will never be a Palestinian state (September 2025).

Long-term ethnic cleansing has now turned to genocide, ongoing in defiance of the formal ceasefire. Israel destroys essential infrastructure, murders aid workers and journalists because it can. The journalist murder count is now further totting up in southern Lebanon.

Representative this month (March 2026) marks the 23rd anniversary of the crushing of AmericanRachel Corrieby an Israeli bulldozer.

UN Special RapporteurFrancesca Albanesehas delivered the 21-pagereport, Torture and genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, dated 19 February 2026. Albaneses team outline the depths of depravity and inhumanity to which the Israeli regime has now sunk in its attempted destruction of the Palestinian people.

Decades of deference to Israel and the U.S. have shaped Australias foreign policy at a high moral cost.

Some excerpts:

For her luminous competence, commitment and courage, Albanese was subject to comprehensive oppressive sanctions by the unhinged U.S. Trump Administration in July 2025.

Israel defies all international institutions and laws that proscribe the abuse of state power. Israels lobbying and propaganda regime (hasbara) is probably the most extensive of any state in history. Israeli authorities lie about the states forces actions without remorse.

The Israeli state is a parasite, receiving over US$300 billion (AU$418.7 billion) in aid from U.S. governments since 1950 (a great deal of which flows back to U.S. weapons manufacturers), supplemented by an estimated US$2 billion (AU$2.8 billion) per annum in donations from overseas Jewish charities, propped up at the country taxpayers expense. In particular, theJewish National Funddirects funds to obliterating indigenous history in historic Palestine.

Australias fraying social fabric isnt being torn apart by culture wars or extremism alone, but by a deepening inequality that no royal commission can paper over.

In short, the state of Israel isa pariah state, a barbaric regime, an abomination.

Two:All self-described official Jewish representative organisations in Australia support and lobby for Israel unreservedly. It is a full-time occupation.

Such representative organisations oppose basic human rights for Palestinians under Israeli control. Theysocialisetheir children into a love of Israel in Jewish faith schools. Some of their children are currently enrolled with the IDF to kill Palestinians.

Such organisations lobby Australian governments to support Israel, inhibiting Australian governments from adopting a principled stance towards Israeli criminality. They harass media management and editorial, thus gaining privileged access to and biased coverage from media outlets that the public relies on for supposedly unbiased information and opinion. Their ridiculous defences of Israel (op-eds, letters, buying off journalists) are published with great regularity. Anti-Zionist Australian Jews (videLouise Adlerand so on) and their organisations (the recently formed Jewish Council of Australia) are pilloried, indeed excommunicated.

In essence, Australian Jewish representative organisations act as a fifth column for a foreign state against Australian national interests naturally antagonistic to social cohesion.

One and two in combination.

The Australian Jewish community, by virtue of its official representatives, courageous dissenters excepted, is complicit in Israeli genocide. And not just passively but actively. There has been no mea culpa on the part of executives of the key Jewish organisations (such asECAJ,ZFA,AIJAC). Nobody in the Jewish community that underpins these organisations has sought to overturn the leadership of these key organisations in order to reorient their agenda and priorities.

In short, Israel and the official Australian Jewish community are joined at the hip.

It is not unrealistic to infer that theBondi attack(and multiple incidents simply labelled antisemitic) is blowback for Israels character and actions and its local support network. The Israeli machine thus puts the security of global Jewry at risk (indeed, its own Jewish population) and doesnt care.

A Zionist foot soldier is published inThe Sydney Morning Herald(22 March), in denial regarding the intimate connection:

After the Bondi Beach murders, Israeli flags were well represented among the flower collections and mourners. Israel is apparently seen as the mother ship, the source of solace for those suffering, yet it is the ultimate cause of that suffering.

Behind the pageantry of Herzogs visit, critics argue Australia is ignoring legal warnings and moral accountability over Israels conduct in Palestine.

This bizarre anomaly is enhanced when the Zionist Federation of Australia (as befits its name) initiated the idea of inviting the Israeli President,Isaac Herzog, to Australia, subsequently legitimised and authorised by Prime MinisterAnthony Albaneseand dragging the Governor-General into the sordid process.

Another foot soldier grasps the connection but declines to understand the implications (SMH, 9 January 2026):

One notes in passing that Israel is not a democracy but an ethnocracy no amount of affirmation is going to change the lie and the blind spot in the letter writers eye. To repeat, Israel is apparently seen as the mother ship, the source of solace for those suffering, yet it is the ultimate cause of that suffering. Rightfully invited really?

Herzog is not a passive head of state but an active participant in Israeli barbarism. Herzog comes to Australia, spends a token moment with victim families and survivors, declines to visit the fire-bombed Orthodox (non-Zionist) Adass Israel synagogue (for reasons of security) and spends the bulk of his time playing Israeli politician (not the time for a two-state solution, meets with ASIO and so on).

The implication is ugly. Those murdered at Bondi are being instrumentalised (as with Netanyahus treatment of Hamas Israeli hostages) in the defence of the state of Israel and its current genocidal agenda. Appalling, no?

Part 2

The CommissionsTerms of Reference

[Preamble]

Investigating the factors leading up to the attack could and should have been the responsibility of the mooted and more suitedRichardson review. A royal commission is not the most appropriate vehicle towards this end.

Any investigation regarding antisemitism in Australia has to put Israel front and centre. The official Jewish community, AKA the Zionist lobby, naturally wants to exclude it.

Why is support for Palestine so often seen as antisemitism? And why so few mentions of Islamophobia?

The appallingSegal Reportcontains no substantive reference to Israel (my dissectionhereandhere), thus being not merely worthless but disingenuous (videGwenal Velges summary of the counter-Segal Greenslade and Briskmanreport, Not in Our Name: Jewish Australians Speak Out) and dangerous. Ditto the absence of any substantive reference to Israel in the most recent annual report (December 2025) of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (sic) (dissectedhere).

This submitter is frankly gobsmacked to find that this fraudulent definition has been officially adopted. The definition has been widely criticised, including by one of its originators,Kenneth Stern. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance(IHRA) definition is essentially about demonising criticism of Israel. Any proposed definition of antisemitism that attempts to delineate the terms on which one is allowed to criticise Israel without censure is automatically illegitimate.

The adoption of the IHRA definition nullifies any legitimacy that the paraphernalia of a royal commission might have and destroys any prospect of an honest analysis and a substantive functional prognosis. This adoption of the IHRA definition gives the impression that the Royal Commission, even inadvertently, will serve as yet another front for the pro-Israel lobby.

With the Royal Commission proceeding based on the IHRA definition, it can only turn into an inquisition. It can have nothing intelligent or ethical to offer about real antisemitism and can have nothing to offer in terms of genuinely dealing with it. It will be remembered as a squandering of the significant money that funds it and for the farcical theatre that is its essence.

This sentence reads like it was written by AI. Who wrote this rubbish? One cannot have social cohesion as long as a particular Australian community coheres and operates actively as a fifth column in support of a foreign rogue state and influences Australian politics, both foreign and domestic, and media towards that end.

Which Jewish Australian community? Is this obscurantism a product of naivete or of cynical contempt? Is the pro-Israel lobby running this show? Will anti-Zionist Jews and their organisations be consulted? Will anti-Zionist non-Jewish organisations (which have Jewish membership), such as theAustralia Palestine Advocacy Network, be consulted?

...and recognising concerns relating to educational and cultural institutions... Meaning? Which and whose concerns? Is this an oblique reference to forthcoming censorship, sackings, institutional defunding and hasbara implants as foreshadowed in the Segal Report?

Independent Australia cautiously welcomes the Government's announcement this week of a Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion in Australia.

To the Honourable Virginia Bell AC

This section is at the heart of the Commissions Terms of Reference misdirection. Misdiagnosed symptoms are highlighted rather than causes.

The authorities need to cut the umbilical cord between the Australian Jewish community (including demolishing the pernicious influence of its Zionist leadership) and the criminal state of Israel.

In particular, (a)(iv) deserves comment. The mental health and wellbeing of Jewish Australians? No doubt the Commission hearings will consider the mental health of anti-Zionist Australian Jews who experience the mental anguish of seeing Jewish Israelis acting like Nazis (and supposedly in the name of global Jewry), but who also suffer the obloquy of abuse by the Australian Zionist Jewish establishment for their ethical stance.

As for the mental health of Australian Zionist Jews, tied inexplicably to a racially supremacist Israel, it is a psychopathology and to their own account save that their aberrant mental state has the Palestinians (and now the Iranians and, once again, the Lebanese) as its ongoing victims.

Zionist Jewish University students, fresh from their faith schools with their love of Israel and now nurtured in the bosom of theZionist Australasian Union of Jewish Students, find their sensitivities affected by campus protests against Israeli genocide. So as not to upset these sensitive souls, inured to the genocide of lesser ethnicities, campus protests have to be shut down.

If the Commission is concerned with shoring up the mental health and wellbeing of [Zionist] Jewish Australians, it is not an agenda that any Australian imbued with ethical sympathies (which includes anti-Zionist Jewish Australians) could have any tolerance for.

Is this code for inhibiting access to refugee status of people escaping Israeli onslaughts and who naturally take a dim view of Israels modus operandi?

This was supposed to be the focus of the Richardson review, but that was merged inappropriately into the Royal Commissions framework. Now Richardson has retired, recognising the Commissions structured dysfunctionality. The most important subject for investigation is now without a suitable home and personnel to proceed.

The means to strengthening social cohesion is to dismantle the pro-Israel lobby in Australia and for the Albanese Government to develop and sustain a principled foreign policy. By contrast, the Terms of Reference of this Commission appear to direct the Commissions operations to enhance that lobbys influence and to ignore and to implicitly condone the Governments cowardice.

Methinks that the Royal Commissions slip is showing. One gets the strong impression that one is in for more than farce. Rather, the Australian public is in for an authoritarian state run in the interests of an Australian Zionist mafia, with which the current Australian Labor Government is already in cahoots (and the Liberal Opposition even more craven).

DrEvan Jonesis a political economist and former academic.

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