As explained by Paul Kelly in today’s Australian, the antisemites are engaged in a relentless campaign to destroy Israel’s legitimacy and to discredit every Jew who supports Israel’s right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people. And it goes much further than, without justification, holding Australian Jews responsible for Israel’s policies. The antisemites, by falsely and maliciously arguing that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians and has become the agent of a new Holocaust, are attempting to strip the Jewish people of their right to a national homeland and to foment hatred directed against them. As Paul Kelly goes on to explain: “This is a breakthrough ideology. Branding Israel as ‘genocidal’ discredits both Israel and Jews. How can it not? It means Jews who are Zionists are also discredited because they back a genocidal nation. It is the basis for fusing anti-Zionism with antisemitism. It invites Australians to reassess Jews on moral grounds and that means they should be treated in a different way. Every sign is that this poisonous campaign is making progress, since Jews in Australia are being treated differently.” It is the constant repetition of these outrageous and false accusations by antisemites that has resulted in the growing normalisation of antisemitism and Jew hatred in Australia which all decent Australians should condemn. The murder of 15 people at Bondi last December did not take place in a vacuum. @australian