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Take your point with the stats. Thanks for posting them. I have had no access to data. 1.6 compared to 0.01 is quite a difference. However, to play the devil's advocate, did more Jews report anti-Semetic attacks than Muslims reported attacks on Islam?
Is Islamaphobia more prevalent in Aus and does the Muslim community feel like there will be less likelihood of action in support of them? I'm posing the question, not claiming it is true.
Difficult to measure whether underreporting is more of an issue for one or the other though I'm skeptical it would make up an order of magnitude difference. If underreporting was an issue I would expect that to show up in self reports being higher than police reports. However, it is in the Jewish sample we see self reports exceeding police reports. Antisemitic hate crimes are roughly at a level where every Jewish Australian will experience an average of over 1 hate crime in their life. That's not to say Islamaphobia should be taken less seriously but that the left should take left wing antisemitism way more seriously
Internally within Labor Fed Muslim MPs Ann Ahly, Ed Husic and Senator Fatima Payman, the latter who has left the party, claimed they had data showing the stats ( which I haven't seen) were the inverse of yours. That it is Islamaphobia that has been more prevalent. FP has told me the incidents of Islamaphobia are far greater than incidents of anti- Semitism.
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I'd like to see the stats. In every country I can access police data antisemitism is much higher. I first became aware of how bad it was in 2019 when I was advising a young (brilliant) Jewish phd student and the rate of anti-semitic hate crimes country by country since that was a major factor in him choosing where to do a postdoctorate. So the stats I dug up are consistent with the rest of the western world
Left wingers may dominate academic institutions, but I repudiate that the media is leftist orientated in Aus, or that left wingers dominate political parties. The only tabloid in Southern Tas is the Mercury, a Murdoch publication. Murdoch dominates Aus media, having tabloids in every state, plus the Australian. I'm not sure what market share Sky/Fox have? I think the ABC and SBS is neutral, although probably rallying against Dutton/LNP wanting to sack them and disband them if elected. Fairfax, Age and SMH are neutral. TV networks 7, 9 and 10 tend to be conservative.
I read the Guardian, New Daily, Saturday Paper and Michael West Media, but they might have small distribution apart from The Guardian. These networks are leftist though.
I'll have to double check my wording but what I should've said is that journalists skew left, particularly on social issues. It is true of course that Australia has a big Murdoch presence. I can't find any data more recent than 2013 but 51% of journalists skewed left then compared to 12% skewing right. This was according to a University of Sunshine coast survey. This includes 47% of news corps journalists preferring labour and 20% of them voting greens. Since the ownership in Australia is either conservative (murdoch) or left (guardian, possible abc) or neutral (packer) this probably means skewing right on class issues (where murdoch is much more likely to control the narrative) and left on other issues. I'd be curious if the presence of sky has changed this dynamic but I cant find recent data.
The Aus Labor govt provides weapons of war to support the Israeli war machine. Hamas shouldn't have started the action against Israel, and taken hostages, but 40 000 - 50 000 Gazans have been killed by the Israeli war machine, despite ongoing protests by Israeli citizens.
The allusion to American Jews supporting the unjust genocide/war on Gaza, in terms of having killed 50 000 Gazans, including many civilians and non- combatants, seems immaterial. The subsequent point you make carries little validity, because of the imbalance in life lost in Gaza. How many Israelis have lost lives compared to 50 000 Gazans?
The polls are to show that the Jewish presence in activist circles including the ones you listed are tokenized voices and not any more evidence that antisemitism isn't rife amongst the far left in Australia than having Candace Owens and a bunch of other Black people for Trump speaking at pro Trump events means racism isn't an issue there
Israel's Casus Belli is that Hamas the intent and ability to do this again and they are likely to continue until they have removed Hamas from power. If New Zealand had a prime minister whose goal towards Australia was analogous to Hamas and they showed they were a threat by killing a thousand aussies, Australia definitely are invading to replace New Zealand leadership, even if New Zealanders had legitimate grievances against us. There probably isn't a country in the world that wouldn't. So it seems wrong to me to hold the one Jewish nation to a standard no country has been able to hold themselves to.
But even if you disagree with that, a big factor in my moral calculus is that it is a heck of lot more likely that protests change climate towards local Jewish communities than it is to change the foreign policy of USA of Israel which ultimately determine the trajectory of the conflict. Of course, not everyone agrees with this point. My student government at Monash when I did my PhD campaigned on ending the war in Afghanistan, which was adorable but ultimately harmless. Exaggerations, poor fact checking, bias and lack of nuance in left wing circles often leads to hyberbolic accusations against powerful groups (white people, USA etc) that is ultimately harmless and you get the extra passion for a cause with little negative tradeoff. That isn't the case here where exaggerations, poor fact checking, bias and a lack of nuance metastasizes into blood libel and hate crimes.
I've given pretty serious though to this issue, Grazor. I defer to others who know a lot more than me, but I've addressed TPAN/APAN political rallies from the perspective of conveying support and solidarity offered by the National and local Retired Unionist Networks, or Educators For Peace ( Aus Educ Union),which have authorised me to advocate on their behalf, because these groups are perceived as peace movements.
With Educators For Peace, we support any group oppressed by war, like Ukraine. Labor Friends Of Palestine, comes under the umbrella of Labor Against War, which is campaigning against AUKUS and supports Ukraine against Russia.
When I started to research the Israel/ Palestine conflict, what was the catalyst for action, was the research conducted by the reputable Amnesty International - which is recognised as pretty impartial. The ongoing maltreatment of Palestinians by Israelis is elucidated.
I would not call Amnesty International a reputable source. Their antisemitism is well documented and goes back well before Oct 7. I won't give a full list but note that Amnesty opposes the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and in 2015 the UK branch voted to reject a campaign against antisemitism. More materially, their accusations against Israel tend to be pretty factually sloppy and omits important context. This includes their 2022 report accusing them of Apartheid and 2024 report accusing them of genocide
