The Bondi Beach shooting has been weaponised by Australian Jews, to put a political hit on Palestinian-Australian writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, by forcing the Adelaide Festival to withdraw her invitation for the Adelaide Writers’ Week for being Palestinian.
Since Thursday (8/1/26), the same day Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the Royal Commission into the Bondi Shooting and antisemitism, over 50 writers have withdrawn from the Adelaide Writers’ Week because of the openly racist decision to cancel Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation.
Make no mistake, the 2 people behind the political hit on Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah are lawyers and Zionists Mark Leibler and his son Jeremy Leibler as they have form on the board trying to get rid of Palestinians from the Adelaide Writers’ Week in 2023 with the support of South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.
The Leiblers have strong political connections because they have given $millions of free legal advice over many years to the likes of Peter Dutton, Bill Shorten and Tony Abbott for anything from tax advice to defending rape allegations and some reasons are secret. (Click here to read more)
The AFR reported on the 21/2/23 in an article titled “Minters cuts ties with Adelaide Festival over Palestinian writers” which says in part:
The festival wrote to sponsors two weeks ago to assure them that all sessions would be conducted in a respectful way. Minters sought further assurances late last week from Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler. They were given, but the law firm still withdrew its support.
Ms Adler has resisted pressure from critics including South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas and Jeremy Leibler, a partner of law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler and president of the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA), to drop Mr El-Kurd and Ms Abulhawa from the program. “I don’t want us to be party to cancel culture,” Ms Adler said.
Mr Leibler has also been lobbying Minters and other commercial partners to sever their ties with the entire festival, which runs from March 3 to 19. Mr Leibler said on Tuesday that the ZFA welcomed Minters’ “principled decision to reject anti-Semitism and those who are prepared to give it a voice”. (Click here to read more)
Mark Leibler and Jeremy Leibler are Zionists who regard criticism of Israel and the genocide in Gaza as being antisemitic, so it’s no surprise they wanted Palestinians Mr El-Kurd and Ms Abulhawa dropped in 2023 and they went after Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah this year.
Mark Leibler and his son Jeremy Leibler, who are both well-known for preaching hate online, also have form for attacking Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah on social media in 2025 and over recent days.
In February 2025 I published an article titled “Lawyers Mark Leibler and Jeremy Leibler go after Palestine supporters on social media” which documents Jeremy Leibler attacking Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah on social media encouraging violence against her.
Below is the full statement by the Adelaide Festival Board. They spend the first 3 paragraphs talking about the Bondi Shooting before even mentioning Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, then say her invitation has been withdrawn even though they say she had nothing to do with the Bondi shooting.
The Adelaide Festival Board also published the below statement on “X”.
The only people who benefitted from publishing the blatantly defamatory statement publicly are Zionist Jews such as Mark Leibler and Jeremy Leibler who want to silence critics of Israel and who are running a vendetta against Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Adelaide Festival Board Statement (Click here to see on “X” formally known as Twitter)
THU 8 JAN 2026
The Adelaide Festival Board is responsible for the delivery of Australia’s much-loved Adelaide’s Writers’ Week. As an organisation and as people, we have been shocked and saddened by the tragic events at Bondi. We have been further saddened by the national grief and the significant heightening of both community tensions and the community debate.
In this shared time of both mourning and reflection, we have spent the last weeks commencing a review across our current and planned operations and interactions through the lens of the current national community context and the role of Adelaide Festival in promoting community cohesion.
Consideration of the appropriate response to such a tragedy is a human exercise that we understand is subjective in nature. We also understand others will undoubtedly form different judgments. These judgments may likely even change as the landscape and context evolves.
As the Board responsible for the Adelaide Festival organisation and all Adelaide Writers’ Week events, staff, volunteers and participants, we have today advised scheduled writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah that the Board has formed the judgment that we do not wish to proceed with her scheduled appearance at next month’s Writers’ Week.
Whilst we do not suggest in any way that Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s or her writings have any connection with the tragedy at Bondi, given her past statements we have formed the view that it would not be culturally sensitive to continue to program her at this unprecedented time so soon after Bondi.
The Board has also now formally established a sub-committee to oversee the ongoing Board-led review, and guide decisions about Adelaide Writers’ Week in the near and longer terms. This includes ongoing engagement with relevant Government agencies and the appointment and/or advice of external experts.
This suite of decisions has been taken with the genuine view that they provide the best opportunity for the success and support of the Adelaide Festival, for Adelaide Writers’ Week and the communities we seek to serve and engage.
We understand these Board decisions will likely be disappointing to many in our community. We also recognise our request to Dr Abdel-Fattah will be labelled and will cause discomfort and pressure to other participants. These decisions have not been taken lightly.
Our only request is that our community is respectful to our staff and volunteers who have not formed part of our decision-making process and deserve nothing but ongoing support for their excellent work.
We have communicated our decisions to the State Government after having regular discussions post the tragic events at Bondi. The Board and Senior Executive will be communicating with all Adelaide Writers’ Week participants in coming days, along with other key stakeholders.
We hope to see you at Adelaide Writers’ Week.
The Adelaide Festival Board
Below is the response by Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah: (Click here to see on “X”)
Page 2:
I find it interesting where the Adelaide Festival Board says, “We also recognise our request to Dr Abdel-Fattah will be labelled”. They are right. It has been “labelled” by many as “racist” and “defamatory”.
If Dr Abdel-Fattah didn’t have a Palestinian background would they have withdrawn her invitation? The answer is clearly no, which says it all.
Some responses on social media:
Response 1. PugOwned Plays:
Response 2. Rachel Withers:
So why did the Adelaide Festival Board even mention the Bondi Shooting? Because it was a political hit and they wanted to link her to the Bondi Shooting to defame her.
It is the same trick the ABC used when they leaked to News Corp’s The Australian that Antoinette Lattouf had been sacked by the ABC and then when Lattouf took legal action against the ABC they claimed she hadn’t been sacked.
The ABC leak was a deliberate attempt, by someone at the ABC, to defame Lattouf and damage her journalism career for the benefit of the Lawyers for Israel who had her sacked.
And the Adelaide Festival Board deliberately published the press release online linking Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah to the Bondi shooting to damage her career. I suspect the Adelaide Festival Board press release was at least partially drafted by Mark Leibler and Jeremy Leibler.
If the Adelaide Festival Board had a legitimate reason to withdraw Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation they would have said what the reasons were and said nothing else. There was no need to mention Bondi at all and they know it.
The chances of some sort of legal action spilling out from this scandal are high, such as a possible complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission for Racial discrimination and/or defamation proceedings.
And over the next few days all the people involved in the political hit will all deny responsibility trying to avoid ending up in the witness box or being sued themselves.
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Artists have withdrawn, backlash is huge. They are back peddling now… what a wonderful show of support.
The Zionist terrorists must be weeded from our society before we go down the way that they have sent other decent countries
Could not agree more!
The US political system is riddled with them….hence as far as the US is concerned they can do no wrong!
Even genocide in Palestine is quite acceptable BUT we must never forget the holocaust or allow it to happen again!
Go figure!!!!!
Love the way decent people have stood up against the stupidity of the Adelaide Writers Week. Think twice in future before you bow to racists.
Its quite sickening the way anyone protesting the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the genocidal Israeli government is now ‘anti semitic’, oh please ,how stupid do they think we are? The terrorists responsible for Bondi had Isis flags on vehicle, nothing to do with Hamas or Palestine. This madness needs to stop.
The lawyers have their tenticals reaching into every component of our society. Hear we see them manipulating thought control (Orwellian 1984). They have even corrupted their own regulator in Victoria, The Victorian Legal Services Commissioner.
The Lieblers and their ilk appear to have no allegiance to Australia, only to Israel. They have been causing racist havoc both online and off. If the spineless Albanese seeks “social cohesion” he should start with these. But of course, that won’t be happening.
Bloody disgrace ,hopefully some of this lies and deceit will come out in a royal commission .Cheers
Unfortunately it won’t. The Royal Commission was pushed by Libs, Murdoch Press (Israel supporter) and extremist Israel Jews. Federal Govt was bullied into this. Albanese wanted an inquiry to get swift co-ordinated action that had a realistic cost-benefit – Libs and Media weaponised this to try get rid of Albanese. They never weaponised Lindt Cafe or Port Arthur, as they were in Govt and Murdoch media supports Libs. They don’t care about Australians only Israel and USA.
Yes indeed. Of course there was little if any criticism of the heavy-handed policing of COVID lockdowns (eg helicopters) over predominantly Lebanese suburbs in Sydney in 2020. Pure hypocrisy to be talking about racism only now. One law for the self-appointed righteous, and another for the rest of us.
disgraceful
The statement from the Adelaide Festival Board is a classic weasel-worded collection of rubbish with much use of the passive voice. I like how ‘the Board has formed the judgment that we do not wish to proceed with her scheduled appearance’ was transformed into ‘our request to Dr Abdel-Fattah’ four paragraphs later. And I’m getting really pissed off at how less than 0.4% of the population is able to continually manage the thinking and behaviour of the other 99.6%.
Here we go again – another disgraceful attack on someone simply for who they are!
It’s infuriating to watch Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah being singled out and silenced, not for anything she’s said, but for her heritage. The artistic community’s fierce response is exactly what’s needed to resist this kind of blatant unfairness.
It’s deeply alarming that a handful of powerful individuals can bend cultural institutions to their will, undermining freedom of expression and the integrity of spaces meant for ideas and debate. This controversy is a stark reminder that transparency, accountability, and courage are essential to defend fairness and open dialogue.
The solidarity shown by writers, artists, and the public offers hope that injustice and political interference will not go unchallenged, and that those unfairly targeted will continue to have a strong voice.
I for one, am furious beyond words at this relentless abuse of power, at the targeting and silencing of someone for nothing more than who they are. I am enraged that a tiny handful of people can bend institutions, twist truth, and manipulate our culture while the rest of us are expected to sit quietly. I am fed up, I am done, and I will not tolerate this madness for another second. Enough is enough, and I am sick to the core of it all!
There are two remarkable aspects at play. The first is the sheer administrative incompetence to not foresee the backlash from invited speakers and discussants for Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW). Did they learn nothing from the Latouf fiasco and the MSO stuff-up, and most clearly, the implosion of the recent Bendigo Writers Festival, which draws on the same mostly elderly audience as the AWW, and which had to cancel 20 sessions due to speaker withdrawals. The AWW withdrawals were from key advertised speakers. I hope and expect that refunds will be given for the booked and pre-paid sessions, but the general sessions in themselves are free. However many would-be attendees will have booked travel and accommodation to AWW on the basis that advertised speakers will actually speak, since their names were clearly use as a “hook”. Will AWW provide compensation for these costs, due to misleading advertising? I would guess not.
The second and more basic aspect is the “cancel culture”, “de-platforming” and “identity politics” blatantly displayed by the Board, and outlined here by KCA. The unseemly politicking and lobbying behind this will eventually hit the fan, as will the spinelessness of the Board. The deployment of such silencing mechanisms are, in principle, typically seized upon by the right wing as a stick to beat mostly left-wing students here and in the USA, often rightly so. But it seems that principles can change 180 degrees depending of the “tribe”! The Bondi massacre was ISIS inspired, yet the Palestinians in general, and Hamas, and Fatah in particular, as well as other regional movements and nations, are all totally opposed to ISIS. Clearly Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah was “de-platformed” because of her Palestinian sympathies – the AWW Board admit this. So by turning a massacre into a lever, committed Zionists have persisted to finally overcome the previous resistance of AWW Director Louise Adler. Perhaps the Board could organise, as compensation to attendees, a ceremonial burning of Dr. Abdel-Fattah’s books?
I have read (I’m a subscriber) the latest KCA in full and applaud the focus on the Jewish influence being perpetrated on Australia via its control over Australian decision-makers.
It is clear that Australia is in the pocket of the Jews, as is America, with influence being exerted in the same way in both countries.
The Jews very clearly have the dirt on Trump and no doubt on our esteemed politicians – read the “new” media – and have enormous financial resources – in cash and in kind – that are being used to influence decisions that benefit the Jews in both countries.
(Unfortunately our ABC is not immune from such influence – to our shame!)
I am by no means a radical person, but fear I might be coming so, and have had my attention drawn to the ugliness of what is going on in the world since the entry of Trump into a position of power, which power is being used to dramatically influence the direction the world is heading in today – with so-far ineffective opposition to such change – no doubt because Oppositions are likewise ham-strung by the same Jewish control mechanisms.
Those who have the dirt on Trump (and Australian politicians and media) are using him to advance their self-centred interests at the expense of those who would stand in their way – I refer to particularly the Jews and Putin, and to a lesser extent Beijing.
Australia is clearly a small player in this world, led by self-serving politicians and bureaucrats, and is being unceremoniously used and abused by the Americans (and Jews) and appears unable and/or unwilling to stand up to the forces being imposed upon it, to our shame.
Is it any wonder that the Jews have been hated since the beginning of their existence?
I don’t see that changing any time soon.
America is now heading down the same path.
Australians are in a precarious situation going forward and most have no idea that that is so – “she’ll be right mate”!
Lawrie Mitchell, your post is grossly antisemitic by any definition of antisemitism.
Agree. One of the core problems in this situation is that there is a fundamental difference between many Jews (both in Australia and elsewhere) and the state of Israel. It’s in the interests of Israel and its supporters to blur the distinction between Israel and Jews, and the Bondi shooters handed the Israel lobby a huge tactical benefit. I’ll say it again: THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
(Signed: a different John. Bloody boring and common name, if I say it myself!)
Arabs are semites, most jews are just Europeans, can the damn word, it’s a 19th century invention by one racist German and literally doesn’t mean anything.
Two more or less random quotes might serve to indicate the full-blown antisemitism of your post, Mr Mitchell:
1. ‘It is clear that Australia is in the pocket of the Jews, as is America, with influence being exerted in the same way in both countries.’
2. ‘Is it any wonder that the Jews have been hated since the beginning of their existence?’
If it weren’t for Shane Dowling’s journalistic dedication to the principle of free speech (the core democratic and constitutional principle underpinning this article) I think most people would be shocked at how your hate speech managed to find its way onto this site.
Had you expressed criticism of Australian Zionist organisations (generally supportive of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Coalition government – the most right wing government in Israel’s history – and its now officially recognised as waging a genocidal war against the Palestinians), or in any other way demonstrated your understanding of the fundamental and crucial distinction between Zionism and Judaism, and thus between ‘anti-Zionism’ and ‘antisemitism’, any comment from you might have at least rested on a solid foundation, given that most thinking, caring people of all stripes understand the difference.
So it seems that the only ugliness to be found here has come straight from you, Mr Mitchell.
Thanks Mugsey, I moderate fast and won’t get it right every time, but I did notice both comments.
I think the first one, “1. ‘It is clear that Australia is in the pocket of the Jews, as is America, with influence being exerted in the same way in both countries.’”
It’s written in a harsh tone but foreign inference on government is a concern that at least some if not many have and should be debated.
A lot of people also think Australia is in the pocket of the US with the $368 billion AUKUS deal.
I agree the second comment, “2. ‘Is it any wonder that the Jews have been hated since the beginning of their existence?’” is antisemitic but I let it through to see if others would call it out which they have. I think others calling it out is important as I won’t always moderate straight away or get it right every time.
With the Royal Commission coming up into antisemitism we are going to debate what is or isn’t antisemitism and I think your comment raises good examples.
It is a fine line sometimes between blocking blatant hate speech designed to inflame and promote hatred and also allowing people to debate the issues that will be raised at the Royal Commission.
This sounds very dangerous and divisive. Do we really want the politics from overseas to be imported to Australia and we start dividing the arts by political alignment? Should we exclude Americans because of their government action in Venezuela or Ukraine or Greenland? Does this mean that anyone who shows up to work at the Adelaide Festival in any capacity might be accused of supporting those who are against Palestine? We could have a Writers Festival book burning BBQ to open proceedings.
Well, that should do a lot to settle the bad feelings, I wonder if they ran it by Bibi first?
I was surprised that Ms Adler caved in to the bullying of such organisations as ZFA,AIJAC etc. I have always admired her social committment & contributions to Australia’s literary community & to literary freedom of expression. It would have admirable to resist the bullies even to the extent of standing down from her AWW role.
Based on some of the comments on social media and by some of comments of the writers deciding not to go it looks the decision was not Louise Adler’s and she had no say. But the full story hasn’t come out yet so best to wait until it does before drawing conclusions.
Good points,Shane. Regarding Lawrie Mitchell’s post,I’m glad you did not resort to censorship,rather relying on the intelligence & good sense of your subscribers to form their own conclusions. Contrary to the eKaren Commissar we are all adults,flawed or otherwise.
Let’s hope that this misuse of ‘power’ by Zionist lawyers falls flat.
One of these Zionists was on X equating Jews who don’t want to go along with their psychopathic manifesto to fascists. Any Jew who doesn’t fall in line is a Nazi he said. This is how unhinged these people are. Classic psych deflection. Was it Goebbels who said ‘accuse your enemies of that which you are guilty’? They have literally become what they profess to hate.
And again KCA is right on the money here. We all need to share these posts so more people get to see these truths. It’s Monday the 12th now, social media posts state over a hundred invitees have withdrawn from the writers festival. Australian’s have a long history of doing the exact opposite, when directed to do unjust things by these trumped up powers that be. The more these manipulative Zionists apply pressure the more we will oppose it. Do these Zionist clowns not realise they are the ones creating this so called “Anti-semitism” which is really “Anti-Netanyahu Genacidism”, by doing this or is that exactly what their modus operandi end game actually is? Simply relentlessly provoking reaction back against them? Most Australian would probably prefer a RC into these scheming, secretive, shadowy and very manipulative Zionist/Media operatives. Everyday there seems to be a new hole these usual suspect Zionist/Media get down digging for themselves to scream “Victim? We all know this is the ongoing manic control at all costs of the media/political narrative on Netanyahu’s genocide supporters in Australia,Israel, world wide and I believe most Australians can see right through it, those that want to anyway. The 300,000 that marched over the bridge in the rain certainly do. That march held again today may well attract a million! And thats what terrifies the now floundering Zionist media narrative manipulators, isn’t it?
Perhaps it has become time to export the Zionist lobby from Australia to their home ports or even Israel. The sad matter at Bondi pales into insignificance when compared to the 70,000+ and continuing deaths of Indigenous Palestinian landowners and residents to protect an allegedly corrupt Prim Monster and a couple of rabid rabbis protected from fighting ”in country” for their 19th century Viennese theological beliefs. So what about the Hannibal Directive attack on a music festival authorised by the Israeli Knesset and conducted by the amoral IDF.
Perhaps the start of the headline should read Subversive Zionist Jew Gangsters?
Tell me the Zionists arent in charge
Albanese has treated the Australian cabinet as a non-voting sub committee of the Israeli cabinet. He applied the same restriction to Parliamentians and is now moving to conscript all Australians into the Jewish religion. It’s outrageous and unlawful under our constitution which bans any religious test for anyone holding Australian public office. Yet Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the justification for the existence and functioning of the state of Israel derives directly from a 3,000 year old scripture which specifically endorses the murder of persons living in territories which Israel seeks to conquer. The Palestinian people are not Jewish and have no obligation to forgo their rights under international law just to satisfy the violent, selfish goals of a religious sect. Neither are Australian parliamentarians or citizens obliged to give any credibility, in the views they express or by their behaviour, to any Jewish religious belief system. Such a system can be rejected by any person, should they so choose, as meaningless, self-serving gibberish. They have committed no criminal offence in doing so.
However, under the soon to be released Albanese hate speech laws the views I have expressed above will almost certainly constitute a criminal offense. People can either support Israel, stand silent or be charged. That’s a police state.
Not to mention the One Mitzvah for Bondi campaign launched by the NSW state government.
Headed by the Member for Israel (Minns).
It’s as though the Jewish community have forgotten what the consequences of ostracization and persecution are. Just like America where the Jewish community are silent while other ethnic and racial targeting is going on.
Let her speak, and if the Lieber’s have an issue they can speak as well. Cowering behind power and money is the act of a bully, not a leader.
Stop being scared of opinions before we are scared of each other.
American Jews were very active in the black rights movement.
I have published a video version (Podcast) of the above article on the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/NJX-kkINi_k
Is that the same law firm John Howard & Peter Costello worked for before entering politics ?
No
Lawrie Mitchell here again.
I have read all of the above comments, including criticisms of my comments, and observe that many of those comments do reflect my own views.
Reference by some to the difference between Zionists and Jews, and attempts to draw a distinction between the two, overlooks the fact that the non-Zionist Jews are drawn in under the umbrella of the Zionists, like it or not.
The Zionists clearly have access to huge volumes of assets (money and kind) and are determinedly, with those assets, shrewdly, brutally and coercively doing what they can to shut down any criticisms of their vulgar actions in pursuit of their goals – goals apparently set in stone 3,000 years ago!
I find it remarkable that a Jewish family in America contributed more than $US100 million to Trump’s last election campaign. Clearly there are those out there with such huge sums of money that they can afford to donate such a sum to a political party.
I wonder if they would expect anything in return?
I wonder if they are Zionists?
From my perspective and understanding (I confess more limited than the understanding of my critics – bless their souls), Trump is giving enormous support to the Zionist cause – would this be to reward Zionist contributions?
Of course not!
I’m not flavour of the month, and my views don’t mean much in this discussion.
However, I would like to suggest that non-Zionist Jews need to extricate themselves from the extremely wealthy Zionist lobby that is, in effect, hiding behind those Jews who, if I can believe the comments above, despise what the Zionists are hell-bent on achieving.
Oh Shane – I acknowledge that my reference to the word “hate” in my earlier comments was ill-advised and gave your audience an easy in to accusing me of “hate” speech – my apologies.
The only “hate” I have in my heart relates to where the world, including Australia, is heading and I do believe it is being pushed their with the full backing of the Zionists in pursuit of their own goals.
However, one must wonder why it is that for the last 3,000 years Jewish folk seem to have been at odds with an awful lot of people over such a long period of time?
I look forward to seeing if you will need to placate any further of your audience calling for you to moderate my comments herein.
Lawrie Mitchell wrote:
“Reference by some to the difference between Zionists and Jews, and attempts to draw a distinction between the two, overlooks the fact that the non-Zionist Jews are drawn in under the umbrella of the Zionists, like it or not.”
“I would like to suggest that non-Zionist Jews need to extricate themselves from the extremely wealthy Zionist lobby that is, in effect, hiding behind those Jews who, if I can believe the comments above, despise what the Zionists are hell-bent on achieving.”
I would like to draw Lawrie’s attention to the post in Shane Dowling’s previous article:
“A wide range of Jewish individuals and organisations — religious, secular, Zionist, anti Zionist, left wing, liberal, and Orthodox — have publicly supported Palestinian rights across the past 75 years.
United States
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
• The largest Jewish organisation in the world supporting Palestinian rights.
• Grassroots, multiracial, intergenerational movement.
• Advocates for equality, an end to occupation, and justice for Palestinians.
If NotNow
• Mentioned in the context of Jewish pro Palestinian activism.
• Youth led movement opposing U.S. Jewish institutional support for occupation.
Australia
Jewish Council of Australia
• Explicitly supports Palestinian freedom, equality, and justice.
• Rejects conflation of Jewish identity with Israeli government policy.
• Formed by academics, lawyers, writers, and teachers.
Argentina
Judíes x Palestina (Jews for Palestine)
• Founded in 2021; has grown significantly since the Gaza war.
Brazil
Vozes Judaicas por Libertação (Jewish Voices for Liberation)
• Founded in 2014; active in pro Palestinian solidarity work.
Canada
Jews Say No to Genocide
• Toronto based Jewish group advocating for Palestinian rights and ceasefire.
Denmark
Jøder for Retfærdig Fred (Jews for a Just Peace)
• Active in protests; approx. 80 members (about 1% of Danish Jews).
• Publicly opposes occupation and apartheid.
Austria
Anti Zionist Austrian Jewish Conference
• Held a solidarity conference for Gaza in 2025.
• Includes activists such as Yiddish singer Isabel Frey.
Germany
Progressive Jewish Anti Zionist Activists
• Active despite strong political pressure; often censored or marginalised.
• Includes artists like Peaches.
Jewish Religious Groups Supporting Palestinian Rights
Neturei Karta (Global)
• Haredi (ultra Orthodox) anti Zionist movement.
• Opposes the State of Israel on theological grounds; supports Palestinian sovereignty.
Historical & Intellectual Jewish Support for Palestinian Rights
Prominent individuals (selected examples)
• Hannah Arendt – warned in the 1940s–50s that a Jewish state built on ethnic nationalism would lead to perpetual conflict.
• Martin Buber – advocated a binational state with equal rights for Jews and Arabs.
• Judah Magnes – first chancellor of Hebrew University; co founder of Brit Shalom, promoting Jewish Arab equality.
• Ilan Pappé – Israeli historian critical of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
• Gideon Levy & Amira Hass – Israeli journalists documenting Palestinian human rights abuses.
• Naomi Klein – Canadian Jewish author supporting Palestinian liberation.
• Noam Chomsky – Jewish American intellectual advocating Palestinian rights for decades.
Historical organisations
• Brit Shalom (1920s–30s) – Jewish intellectuals advocating bi-nationalism.
• Ihud (1940s) – successor to Brit Shalom, promoting Jewish Arab equality.
• Matzpen (1960s–70s) – Israeli socialist organisation opposing occupation.
AND don’t forget Louise Adler!”
Does Lawrie think anti-Zionist and anti-Netanyahu Jews are fair game or excusable collateral damage?
Should Russian Australians be fair game for Ukrainian Australians because of Putin’s war?
The Australian social compact was predicated on not bringing foreign hatreds to Australia. It’s all about live and let live.
Don’t blame Muslim Australians for atrocities committed in the name of a warped interpretation of Islam and don’t blame Jewish Australians for atrocities committed by Netanyahu’s IDF in Gaza.
Lawrie Mitchell responding to John (no family name)
At this point in time, John, I don’t think you and I are on opposite sides of the table.
What I have said is that I believe the wealthy and powerful (wealth is used to gain power to be used as a tool) Zionists are smothering the voices of those Jews who detest what the Zionists are doing to the Palestinians in Gaza.
Not only that, they are using their influence to convince the broader Australian population that all Jews support what the Zionists are doing, with the support of the likes of Trump, who was easily bought, and our fall-guy politicians who are too weak to stand up and call out the Zionists for what they are (political donations and threats to withhold same buy support in Australia also, of course).
I asked Doctor Google whether the Leiblers of that powerful law firm, which provides pro bono services to selected politicians (if our friend KCA is to be believed) are Zionists, and of course they are unashamedly so.
Among what was provided by Google’s AI are the following excerpts:
“Yes, prominent members of the Leibler family, who are senior figures at the Australian law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler, are publicly known as staunch Zionists and have held leadership positions in major Zionist organizations”; and
“The firm itself is known for its close ties to the Australian Jewish community and for taking stances in support of Israel, with reports detailing its separation from an arts collective over the display of anti-Israel banners”
“known for its close ties to the Australian Jewish community” – herein is the problem as I see it, for those Jews who say they are not Zionists and who say they are against what the Zionists are doing in Gaza have – the general population, I submit, believes that the vast majority of Jews are all included in the same pool of people with whom the Lieblers have “close ties”
Now, from personal experience, many people who won’t admit to belonging to a group of people who are on the nose will try to distance themselves from that group – on a recent overseas trip to Europe it was amazing to hear many Americans calling themselves Canadians to avoid being associated with the now stench of America – that’s not to say they weren’t proud Americans – how are we to know how many Jews are trying to distance themselves from being known as Zionists for the same reason?