Is it Antisemitic to write "who does A.G. Dreyfus serve?" on the electoral office of Australia's Attorney General Mark Dreyfus in May 2024?

Is it Antisemitic to write "who does A.G. Dreyfus serve?" on the electoral office of Australia's Attorney General Mark Dreyfus in May 2024?

He gave it as an example on the royal commission into Antisemitism and "social cohesion".

I definitely see why he saw it that way, but it's on his electoral office, the constituency he should servel. It might be implied... But they might not even know he's Jewish?

I started wondering whose side he was on in December 2023 when an Australian citizen was murdered by an airstrike on a family home in Lebanon that looked like an intentional assassination aimed at him. The airstrke and also killed his brother who was visiting from Sydney and his brother's wife who was stuck in the war zone for 2 months despite being married to an Australian citizen.

In response to this, in his role as acting foreign minister, Dreyfus said Hezbollah are terrorists and Australian should get out of Lebanon because Lebanon is dangerous.

I found out he was Jewish in about 2024

Whoever wrote that might have had the question longer than me, because beside it they wrote "free Julian Assange"... Maybe they added that after they saw the coincidental name?

I am aware of the Dreyfus affair, but I didn't notice the coincidence till this year. Most Australians don't spend much time thinking about French court cases from a century ago.

The examples from X included some actual Antisemitism... But finding Nazis on the Nazi site is not new. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/mark-dreyfus-royal-commission-antisemitism-is-personal/106856278

u/kmpiw — 3 days ago

My first on-topic post?

I don't know if it's "bad" is it rage bait?

At first glance I thought it was life expectancy.

There's no data for Lebanon.

Their example to compare themselves to in Green? Why those three? I'm definitely thinking about this more than it deserves.

I think Hasbara only makes sense if you're racist?

Or did Denmark and Italy offend them?

I can't tell if the comparison list is supposed to be good?

Is green supposed to be mildly offensive to Islam and Ireland?

u/kmpiw — 6 days ago

Why did the ADL want to debunk the anti fascist red triangle in 2020?

Off topic? Does 2020 ADL count as Hasbara yet?

Qassam weren't using it (except in the flag) till November 2023 so it's nothing to do with that... But what on earth was their point for claiming it wasn't related to anti fascism?

I'm weirdly obsessed with the history of this symbol

In 2020 wanted to designate "antifa" as a terrorist org, the campaign had a red triangle in it as an alleged antifa symbol

It's not "antifa" but it's anti fascist, I've never noticed it till recently but I looked into the history and it's very much anti fascist in Europe, representing opponents of Nazism, reclaimed from the camp uniform symbol.

There was a brief confused fus about it as a "Nazi symbol" because it was more than slightly disconcerting to mark one's left wing political enemies

ADL then very much down played anti fascist meaning

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u/kmpiw — 9 days ago

Old story but mad "Labour anti-Semitism row: Corbyn defends appearance at Jewdas event" Jezza "defends" his attendance at a Passover event with British Jews

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u/kmpiw — 14 days ago

Have you done an episode on Roy Casagranda yet?

He's a historian from Texas who makes a lot of sense, possibly too much sense, i.e. says some things I've suspected for ages that feel "too good to check".

He has a Wikipedia page, but only in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Casagranda

I found him in this YouTube video: The Modern History of Iran | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC | Middle East Eye

That interview contradicts this more dry YouTube history guy Iran-Contra Explained: The Wall of Crazy Scandal | by Sean Munger … Sean Munger seems to be just an independent content creator https://www.seanmunger.com/ ... so Roy's community college position gives maybe slightly more credential points?

Roy Casagranda has his own podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dr-roy-casagranda-podcast/id1837193563

and r/History don't like Roy Casagranda much

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u/kmpiw — 18 days ago

Actual Antisemitism…

https://preview.redd.it/nkaot3nodpgh1.jpg?width=862&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=028fd0b263294d870417687a81df304cb25a40fe

Is that a real backdrop or a misguided ABC Australia art director?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-01/trump-republican-red-scare-communist-socialist-us-politics/106967044

This is literally Nazi shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communism#Nazism The octopus is slightly subtle but way more antisemitic than

Trivia: ​is ​that supposed to be Maduro? ​there's a photo of him wearing a Holocaust remembrance red triangle pinned to a Kafiya in about 2021. It's the earliest photo I can find of the red triangle in a pro-Palestine context.

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u/kmpiw — 20 days ago

Is the Berlin attack getting disproportionately low coverage?

It doesn't seem to be getting as much coverage as it would if it was a Jewish event with same casualty count? I'm probably biased and maybe not noticing the coverage it is getting, but the​ results I find looking for pride parade terror attacks are still about Jerusalem (Israeli settler from West Bank stabbed LGBTQ Israelis at a Jerusalem pride in 2005 and 2016).

I was dreading a wave of awful homonationalism, but the only place I've come across coverage of it is the Bad Gays podcast and some very brief mentions elsewhere?

I've noticed patchy coverage generally. The increase in reported antisemitic incidents is part of one story and part of another, presented as something homogeneous and continuous.

A substantial proportion of the incidents that have killed or injured non-Israeli Jews are ISIS, and they're not targeting just Jews, and possibly not even mostly Jews. It's Jews, Christians, and Queers the anti-queer attacks are ambiguous but the other two were part of the same very clear campaign of incitement.

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u/kmpiw — 20 days ago

The publisher decided to destroy 5000 copies of this poem

5000 illustrated ​copies of the poem will be / have been pulped because the illustrator wrote a completely unrelated essay that was allegedly antisemitic. This is not a good way to fight antisemitism.

Also, the way she uses Wiradjuri language mixed with English reminds me slightly of the way Yiddish words are used in English?

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u/kmpiw — 3 months ago