Antisemites Under the Bed: Full Blown McCarthyism Hits Australia

Paul Gregoire | 04 March 2025 | Sydney Criminal Lawyers

The last week suspension of a grant presented to renowned Palestinian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has led commentators to declare that a version of 1950s US McCarthyism has now taken hold in Australia, with the latest iteration targeting local cultural figures evidently harbouring antisemitic thoughts, rather than any fears of “reds under the bed”.

Abdel-Fattah has been a central figure of this witch-hunt and demonising smear campaign, as she’s someone who’s dared to transgress an unspoken social decree that considers public statements of solidarity with Palestinians being tantamount to expressions of antisemitism, or prejudice against adherents of Judaism, which in 20th century Europe led to the Holocaust…

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