Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion - Nick Riemer - Overland literary journal

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• Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There is so much in this article. It puts down in words what I feel about the whole damn thing. And there is so much in this article I think Australians need to consider and sit with. Ask themselves the question, ‘Is this powerful leaning, unequal treatment the Australia I want to live in?’

  Riemer builds to a conclusion that should show anyone willing to listen that the Royal Commission is damaging to Australia’s multi-cultural society.

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  I think for me the part that resonated with me the most is the below. Often I see the crimes being committed a world away, then see the support or apathy shown toward the perpetrators and victims. Its incomprehensible to me that all these values and traditions I was raised with in Australia are absent here. At this point I look at the world, and look back at my countrymen and wonder what event is it that will make us speak out, as one, do we have any shared values? Or was that a fictional narrative only rolled out for posturing on events like ANZAC day. (I won’t ever really believe that last part, but our apparent disinterested apathy makes me question my beliefs about Australia).

  While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement — the very people whose opposition to the genocide, Zionists claim, is at the source of attacks on Jewish people today. No objective attempt to get at the truth about antisemitism in 2026 could reasonably block its ears to Palestine supporters, many of whom are themselves Jewish.

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