Published: 30 April 2025
Last updated: 1 May 2025
Pamphlets distributed in two Melbourne electorates with a high proportion of Jewish voters have deeply upset Australian Jews this week. A poster for Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns has also been attacked with red Star of David graffiti.
The eventa this week follow recent other cases of weaponising Jewish issues in the electon campaign, with recent attacks on Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Wentworth independent Allegra Spender.
A pamphlet distributed in the heavily Jewish area of Caulfield by the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network attacks the Liberal party for "Giving the Jews everything they want". Caulfield is part of the Macnamara electorate, held by Burns but strongly contested by the Greens.
The pamphlet, which features a Liberal party logo with an Israeli flag puports to be from the Liberal party saying "Our plan is to give Jews everything they want" and claiming the Liberals will put "Israel first", "abolish free speech", and "give Jews free money". However it is labelled as authorised by Joel Davis for the National Socialist Network in Melbourne.
President of the Zionist Federation of Australia Jeremy Leibler described the pamphlet as "flagrantly antisemitic".
“Jewish people, like all Australians, have a right to feel safe in their own homes, and not under siege from extremists who want to do us harm. Over the last 18 months, ridiculous and hateful conspiracy theories have been spread about Australian Jews. It’s dangerous, and it must be rejected by all Australians," he said.
Comments2
Victim of immigrant bullies12 January at 04:50 am
This is the result of mass immigration and multiculturalism. Immigration is war and vice versa, as leading military historian Martin van Creveld concluded in his essay “War and Migration”, in: There Will be War Vol. X: History’s End.
Remigrate the millions of foreigners and get the West back to the demographics of the 1950s.
Simon Krite30 April at 11:18 pm
This is what happens when leadership goes missing.
Neo-Nazi flyers in Caulfield. Fake letters in Goldstein. Jewish Australians being used as political pawns from both extremes.
Why? Because instead of standing firm, too many leaders have entertained fringe voices like the so-called Jewish Council of Australia — an APAN-aligned group designed to launder anti-Zionism as Jewish dissent.
It’s blurred the line. It’s emboldened hate. And now our safety is at risk.
We need clarity, not cowardice.
We need a Government that rejects all forms of antisemitism — not just the convenient ones.