Doxing Australian Jews serves Israel’s right

By attacking Diaspora Jews, those who think they are supporting Palestinians are only entrenching the conflict, writes DAVID LANGSAM.

The revelation that Australian Palestine supporters have been doxing Jewish artists and businesses, leading to death threats and boycotts, is astonishingly counter-productive.

By naming 600 Australian Jews and giving out their digital addresses, the people who think they are helping the Palestinian cause are aiding and abetting the aim of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A rise in global antisemitism related to the increased brutality against Palestinians might not be at the top of Netanyahu’s mind, but it certainly is a very happy coincidence for the Israeli right.

The logic is that if the world hates Jews, then all the more reason to fight with whatever means necessary for a Jewish state, a so-called “safe homeland for Jews from the next pogrom or Holocaust”.

By making life more terrible for Palestinians, Israel’s most right-wing Government in its history has either directly caused a rise in antisemitism or allowed the latent antisemitism in the world to come out from where it has been hiding since 1945.

The Israel right expects that Jews will leave the persecution of London, Paris, Melbourne or Sydney and come flocking to Israel. I doubt it.

Even juxtaposed with the rise in antisemitism in the Disapora, Israel is not a very safe, comfortable or relaxed land of milk and honey, reeling from the October 7 massacre and continuing to face rockets from Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.