The following speech was delivered by me as the keynote address to one of Australia’s leading civil rights organisations, the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties, at its annual dinner on 28 August 2025.
It’s published by the great new independent news website, Deepcut News:
Here’s an extract:
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine if at least 60,000 Jews had been murdered in the last two years. The perpetrator was a self-described democracy with full Western backing. Armed to the teeth by Washington, London and Canberra. And, every day, we’d see the photos and videos of this genocidal state killing, maiming and starving the Jewish population.
It’s almost impossible to conceive of this scenario after the Holocaust, where I lost most of my family in the Nazi concentration camps. Instead, there would be calls for Western military intervention to stop this crazy state from slaughtering innocent Jewish men, women and children. The [United Nations] so-called ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine would be enacted.
I speak to you as an Australian, German and Jew. I don’t deny or ignore the reality of antisemitism – vile acts against individuals simply because they’re Jewish. And it’s a growing problem in our societies. As is Islamophobia, hatred against First Nations peoples and refugees.
But antisemitism has been dangerously weaponised in the service of the most extreme, Israeli supremacist agenda. And far too many people who should know better have fallen right into this linguistic and political trap set by the most belligerent members of the Jewish establishment and their media and political allies.
Read the whole speech: Antisemitism has been weaponised by the Israeli supremacist agenda
Here’s a video of my speech: