Robert Long

It's important to note that: A - the Shoalhaven councillors did not vote on this, CEO Andrew Constance decided it himself. Email correspondence and statements from organisers confirm that the final decision was an operational directive issued by the CEO alone. B - Andrew Constance, self-declared friend of Israel, based his alleged decision on Nowra suddenly being a hot-bed of antisemitism based on a report that he himself commissioned. Note - even the report he commissioned showed no mention of security problems, threats or counter protests, nor does this art exhibition have any history of that. No perceived threat of any kind is listed above medium and even then, it was on the organisers, not Council. It's almost as if Andrew Constance invented a perceived threat, pretended it existed and then used his invented perception as an excuse to cancel the exhibition. (link to screenshots from Shoalhaven resident, Steve Prothero. steveprothero.substack.com/p… ) .

Odd indeed. I checked Andrew Constance's many utterances in NSW Hansard about Israel - there are far too many to list here, but he's on parliamentary record as being a huge fan of Israel. I could find nothing in Hansard about him speaking of the rights and displacement of the Palestinian people, even though he'd been all the way to Jerusalem and back.