Published: 10 December 2025
Last updated: 10 December 2025
There are moments in political life when events seem to part like a curtain, revealing not just the machinery of party dynamics but something older, almost biblical in contour.
Australia witnessed two such moments in recent weeks—one in Queensland, one in New South Wales—offering portraits so stark, so opposed in spirit, that they feel torn from different moral universes. Together, they form a parable about the state of the Australian Labor Party, the Jewish community, and the long shadow cast by the world’s oldest hatred.
The first moment came from Queensland Labor, whose branch members advanced a motion demanding the investigation and potential prosecution of Australian citizens who have served in the Israel Defence Forces. It was a motion of such remarkable selectivity—such clarifying ideological precision—that it could only be described as hateful in intent and discriminatory in effect.
There was no parallel call to investigate Australians who had joined ISIS as it beheaded and burned its way across the Middle East. No special motion for the Russians who aided in the execution-style murders of fleeing civilians in Bucha, or the Sudanese Australians who took up arms in the genocidal wars splitting their homeland like bone. No. Only one group, one nationality, one ethnicity, one battered sliver of people whose history is an unbroken millennia-long experiment in survival.
The motion singled out Jewish Australians.
Queensland Labor did what centuries of Jew-haters have done: it found a way to isolate Jews as a category apart, a class deserving suspicion and legal scrutiny. It dressed the motion in the hollow language of international law, but the targeting was unmistakable.
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Jeffrey Brown23 December at 04:35 am
Dan, with regard to your comment “Australian war criminals in the IDF”, are you saying all Australians serving in the IDF are war criminals, or that everyone serving in the IDF is a war criminal?
You are aware, I hope, that the IDF is a legally constituted defence force of a democratically elected government.
Dan18 December at 03:59 pm
I appear to have hit a nerve with the author of this article who has responded with a hysterical nonsensical reply that fails to address his hypocrisy on this issue.
“No similar motion was ever proposed for Australians who joined ISIS, fought in Sudan, or committed atrocities in Bucha”
The Australian Government already investigates these crimes rigorously, so what would be the point of asking the Government to do something that it is already doing?
However due to the influence of the Pro-Israel lobby, the Aus Government appears reluctant to similarity investigate Australian war criminals in the IDF.
So the question remains, why is this author so opposed to equal treatment for all Australians who commit war crimes overseas?
The most obvious answer is that he sees the daily war crimes committed against Palestinians as being of no concern. He appears to even deny the atrocities in Gaza as “TikTok” propaganda even as the leaders of his beloved state are wanted for war crimes by the ICC (though I suspect he would accuse them of antisemitism)
Thankfully he and other war crime apologists are becoming increasingly out-of-touch with the views of both ALP members and the wider population
Adam Slonim12 December at 04:52 am
Anonymous David, your argument collapses the moment you stop repeating social-media slogans and apply basic logic. Parliamentary motions have nothing to do with AFP investigations. The Queensland motion wasn’t about “equal treatment” of war criminals — it was about singling out Jewish Australians, by identity alone, for scrutiny without evidence. No similar motion was ever proposed for Australians who joined ISIS, fought in Sudan, or committed atrocities in Bucha. That double standard is exactly the discrimination the article exposed.
Your claim that Australia fails to investigate Gaza because of “powerful Zionists” controlling law enforcement is not analysis; it’s a textbook antisemitic conspiracy theory. On your illogic, I imagine climate change is a jewish conspiracy too..
Your line that “everyone knows” the IDF committed “the worst war crimes in modern history” reveals the source of your thinking: TikTok outrage, not international law. Extraordinary claims require evidence, not slogans.
And finally, your attempt to smear me as someone who views Jews as “chosen” and “Arabs as lesser” is a racist insult used to dodge the argument you cannot refute.
Nothing you assert withstands scrutiny. In trying to discredit the article, you’ve only proven its point.
Dan10 December at 07:33 am
“There was no parallel call to investigate Australians who had joined ISIS as it beheaded and burned its way across the Middle East.”
The obvious reasons for this is that there is no need for such a motion as Australia has already, and still continues to, vigorously investigate all Australians who went and committed crimes for ISIS. Likewise for those who have committed crimes in Ukraine and Sudan.
Currently however there is absolutely no such investigation into those Australians who have committed crimes in Gaza. This is due to the tremendous influence powerful Zionists have in Australian law enforcement, legal system and politics.
But why exactly are so called Jewish “progressives” like this author so determined that Jewish Australians who committed equally horrendous acts in Gaza not face the same scrutiny as other Australian war criminals. Doesn’t seem very “equal” does it.
Everyone knows that IDF has committed such horrors in Gaza that they rival the worst war crimes in modern history. The people who don’t acknowledge this are those who view Israelis as “chosen people” who cannot be scrutinised and view “Arabs” as just unworthy lesser people. I suspect the author is such a person.