By John McLean
Ordinary Australians, like their cousins in New Zealand, are having it tough at the moment – rising food and fuel prices, unaffordable housing, diminishing employment prospects due to AI, automation and other factors, inflation eating away at wages, and an irresponsible governmental national debt of US$686 million on which interest has to be paid every week.
Yet in the recent federal budget of May, 2026, the Treasurer, Labour’s Jim Chalmers, threw a total of $604 million to one of the richest and most powerful lobby groups in the country – the Jews. I use these words carefully as the Executive Council of Australian Jewry were given $124 million of this windfall and yet they have been instrumental in framing the Albanese government’s “hate speech” laws, which are a violation of our once treasured right of free speech. Just like in the United States where the Israel lobby contributes more money to Congressmen than any other group does. In return Congress supplies the Jewish state with huge amounts of taxpayers’ money (an average of US$2.6 billion a year since 1971), two thirds of which Israel spends on military equipment to fight her neighbours in endless wars.
As already stated, the said Executive Council of Australian Jewry is getting $124 million of this taxpayer handout of approximately $300 million for specifically race-based Jewish organisations. Of this, two race/religion based outfits called Charities Jewish House and Jewish Care will get their hands on $4 million. Other projects run by Jewish community organisations are in line for a total of $131 million. Another $43 million is for “mental health support” for the small number of people “affected by the Bondi shooting”.
There was a Jewish kosher catering business in Sydney called Lewis Continental Kitchen whose premises were burned down in 2024 as a result of a gangland killing and yet $500,000 of public money is being showered on this business to help it rebuild. What other Australian business gets this sort of taxpayer support? There was even $500,000 to provide security at Jewish holiday camps in Victoria!!!!
The Royal Commission into Anti-Semitism, which Albanese set up so precipitately and unnecessarily after the Bondi shootings, is slated to take $131.1 million (nice for the Commissioners!!!) while another $207 million is to be used “to counter anti-Semitism” and combat “hate” – whatever that means. Probably prosecuting anyone who speaks out against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and Lebanese or its brutal bombing of civilian targets in Iran.
The purpose of all this public money being directed towards one small and wealthy group is to “combat anti-Semitism and improve social cohesion”. These last two words are what every dictator from Stalin to Xi Jin Ping has used to crush dissent. “Social cohesion” and dissent are mutually exclusive of each other, “dissent” being the right to think differently from the official narrative.
By far the most sinister of these handouts is $13.6 million “to refuse and cancel visas for anti-Semitism” and the hands of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry can be seen all over this nasty attack on free speech. If some overseas speaker or writer wants to visit Australia who might be believed to say something negative about the Jews or the terrorist state of Israel, that person will be forbidden entry to the country. In other words, the Jews will now have the power to tell Australians what and whom they can hear. As Voltaire said a couple of centuries ago, “If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticise”.
One of the more interesting allocations of this largesse is $80 million “to prevent violent extremism and youth radicalisation”. This is code for extremism and radicalisation of Muslims who have infiltrated Australia in recent times, including several thousand Lebanese Muslims whom the former Prime Minister, the traitorous Bob Hawke, waved into Australia – people from primitive and remote villages in the hills of Lebanon who had been brought up in an atmosphere of sectarian violence and hatred of non-Muslims and who had (have) little or nothing in common with Australian values.
The Muslim father and son who carried out the Bondi shootings were definitely “extreme” and “radicalised”. Thus, by so recklessly allowing so many Muslims into the country without anyone in Canberra having the wit to read the Koran, the Australian government is very much the architect of its own misfortune. In trying to understand what happened it should look in the mirror instead of violating the free speech rights and taking the taxation money of ordinary Australians.
It could be argued that all Muslims are capable of being “extreme” and/or “radicalised” since the Koran, the Holy Book of Islam, instructs them to violence against non-Muslims. Some examples:
“Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you…..And slay them wherever ye catch them” (Surah2: Al Baqarah 190-3)
“Fighting is prescribed for you” (Koran 2.216)
“Soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers” (Koran 3: 151)
“But if they [friends] turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them” (Koran 4.89)
“The disbelievers are ever unto you open enemies” (Koran 4.101)
“Remember when your Lord inspired the angels….I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” (Koran 8.12)
With this sort of inspiration in the Holy Book of Islam it could be argued that Bondi was an accident waiting to happen. The point to remember is that these two father and son killers were NOT Australians. They were Muslims who had never adopted Australian standards. So, why should ALL Australians have their right of free speech violated by ever increasing “hate speech” laws? The answer to that is that Labour governments never lose an opportunity to twist a tragedy such as the Christchurch mosque shootings and the Bondi killings into a “need” for a clampdown on free speech, the ownership of guns, etc. Just remember how, in the wake of the Christchurch shootings, Jacinda Ardern’s first reaction was to strip New Zealanders of their traditional rights to own a gun and so farmers who needed a rifle to shoot vermin were treated like criminals and forced to hand over the weapons that they had used responsibly for decades. With the help of an hysterical media Ardern couldn’t get in fast enough to use the tragedy to take away traditional rights that New Zealanders had enjoyed since Day One.
The stated justification for elevating one minority group above everyone else was the killing of several people at an outdoor Jewish religious ceremony in 2025. In the media and political hysteria that followed not one person pointed out was that the killings, although unacceptable, could not be regarded as unexpected.
This was a Jewish religious ceremony held in a public park near that magnificent beach of hedonism that is called Bondi. Generally speaking, religious ceremonies are not and should not be held in open public places. Such parks are for the public and should not be taken over – either entirely or partially – by a religious group – especially one that is as hostile to Christianity and Islam as Judaism is.
The Jews’ Holy Book, the Talmud, is just as violent and nasty as the Koran. They look down on Gentiles (non-Jews) as “goyim”. The Talmud holds that “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal” (Book of Sanhedrin 59a) and “Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed” (Book of Abodah Zara 26 b).
To hold such a Jewish ceremony at the very height of Israels’ killings of approximately 70,000 civilians in Gaza was provocative to say the least. What happened should not have happened and should be condemned without qualification. But one has to wonder whether a court of law would reduce the amount of damages on the grounds of contributory negligence by such a blatant and public exercise of the Jewish religion when passions were running so high.
In Australia there was already enough violation of free speech in the name of “anti-Semitism” before Albanese set up his Royal Commission. In September, 2025, before Bondi, Australia’s federal police had already set up a “counter-terrorism and special investigations unit” which seems more concerned with giving special consideration and resources to the Jewish community than in opposing terrorism.
“Anti-Semitism is a cancer that requires swift and direct action, which is what the Australian Federal Police is continuing to do”, screamed the Assistant Commissioner with the appropriate name of Stephen Nutt. He claimed that those causing “high harm to Australia’s social cohesion” would be targeted by the police. This could include those who oppose Israel’s aggressive actions. If you don’t stand with Israel in all its wars and massacres, you must be an “anti-Semite”. Since when has it been the role of the police to decide what we can say and what we can’t? Especially in Australia where the police forces are better known for their corruption than their efficiency.
Australia’s throwing money at a perceived problem of “anti-Semitism” will not only not solve the problem but it will make it worse as the average Australian, struggling to make ends meet, will resent his or her taxes being given to this already rich and manipulative group. Therefore Jews are likely to become more resented, which will be the exact opposite of the Government’s intention. Such increased resentment is likely to increase feelings of “anti-Semitism” rather than reducing them.
It is only natural that Israel’s continuing attacks on its neighbours ever since it was founded in 1948 on somebody else’s land by terrorists and by the use of terrorism will have consequences. There is a precedent for this. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was carried out largely by Jews rather than Russians. In 1918-9 a group of Jewish communists tried to take over Bavaria in Germany in the wake of the collapse of the Kaiser’s forces at the end of the First World War. They failed but this attempted attack on Germany did not go unnoticed by the Germans. When a few years later the Nazi Party instituted various policies against the Jews the people of Germany were generally either supportive or neutral and apathetic. They saw no reason to go in and bat for the Jews. As Hilaire Belloc wrote so prophetically in his 1922 book, The Jews, “The revolution in Russia will be the historical point of departure whence will date the renewed hostility to the Jews in Western Europe”. For the sake of the Jews one can only hope that Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and Lebanese and its bombings of Iran will not generate the same passions.
The surest way of defeating “anti-Semitism” is for Israel to stop its endless aggressions against its neighbours and its going out of its way to massacre large numbers of Arab civilians. That, more than anything else, would reduce the increasingly negative feelings against Jews that feed the beast of “anti-Semitism”. And it wouldn’t cost a cent or violate traditional rights of Australians as Albanese’s legislation does.
The Australian government’s attack on free speech in the name of “anti-Semitism” is more likely to protect Israel from criticism than to protect Australian Jews from people who don’t like them. To throw $604 million of public funds at this perceived problem is a total waste of money. The word “anti-Semitism” itself is a fraud as the true Semites are the Arabs of the Middle East plus the small number of Sephardic Jews, who comprise only about 10% of the population of Israel. Most of the Jews of Israel are Ashkenazi Jews who are not Semites, that word being correctly used only for the descendants of Noah’s son, Shem. And let us not forget the words of Shulamit Aloni, a former Israeli Cabinet Minister, “Anti-Semitic? It’s a trick. We always use it [to stifle criticism of Israel]”.
For further reading:
“Free Speech Under Attack”. $35
“Who was behind the Bolshevik Revolution?” Ron Asher. $30
If both books are bought together before 30 May, 2026, the combined price (including postage within New Zealand) will be $50.
