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Will you mention that bunch of far right extremists, you know who they are, they have a very long track record of anti-Semitism. It was far right extremists who murdered 6 million Jews, can't get more anti-Semitic than that.

Jillian Segal is a past president of the Executive Council
of Australian Jewry (ECAJ). An umbrella organization for
more than 200 Jewish organizations across Australia. It has
a broad reach and more members than any other Jewish
community organizations. It's influence is vast.

We should note that some Jewish voices have opposed the
ECAJ and its positions in its support of the military
operations in Gaza which Jillian Segal has publicly defended
and endorsed multiple times.

It's for this reason that smaller Jewish community
organizations like the Jewish Council of Australia have
criticized Segal's appointment saying it "risks breeding
divisions."

There's another point of contention - and that is - whether
anti-Israel policy positions should be considered antisemitism.

There have been criticisms that criticizing Israel's policies
is not antisemitism but an attempt to silence legitimate
criticism of Israel. As we know - this debate is highly
contentious - just like the envoys themselves - whether
they are - antisemitism or anti Islamophobia.

These envoys are not an invention of the Albanese government.
For example - Canada has a special representative for combating
Islamophobia and earlier this year the UN General Assembly
requested a special envoy to combat Islamophobia.

It serves no one's purpose to pit antisemitism and
Islamophobia against each other. Both are manifestations
of hate and are often perpetrated by the same individuals.

The war in Gaza complicates these matters and navigating
all the complexities is precisely what the Antisemitism and
Anti-islamophobia Envoys will need to do.

Keeping politics out of it all will not be an easy task.

It will be interesting to see who the government will appoint
as the anti-Islamophobia Envoy.

Albanese has been described as “the fireman who arrives with his hose after the building has been reduced to a pile of ash”. The fire started long ago in the woke universities, fanned by Green Senators in Parliament.

Albanese said, “We have seen since October 7 last year a significant rise in anti-Semitism in Australia, and that is why the Government has made the decision to appoint a special envoy on anti-Semitism.”

He admits that anti-Semitism has been raging for 9 months before his dubious attempt to do something about it!

What will this taxpayer-funded bureaucrat “advise” Albanese on?

Will she advise him to activate the hate-speech laws that already exist, but which he has ignored?

How much advice does an elected leader need to actually lead?

How many committees will this extra snout in the public trough set up. How many extra snouts to advise a leader who should have the brains and decency to act for himself. None, if we had such a leader.

Albanese's gutlessness and fear has backfired on him in the form of a Muslim Senator acting as ‘the member for Gaza’, a bunch of foreigners with nothing to do with Australia.

Don't be surprised if we have umpteen ‘envoys’ for the umpteen minorities in Australia, just because this boofhead Albanese can't call out anti-Semitism without other ‘victims’ looking for attention.

That’s divisive identity politics for you. Albanese is an expert on it.

I don't believe that what the government is trying to do
is simply a vote-catcher. I'm trying to remain more
positive that this is a determination to confront the
problem of division and hate in our communities and an
attempt to ensure that it doesn't erode the goodness
that exists among so many.

Surely, it's a sensible move to take any attacks from
both sides of this conflict seriously and try to deal with
it by taking action?

We've seen from what happened in Christchurch. We've even
had vandalism with spray paint here - including even at
the Australian National Korean War Memorial and the
Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial in Canberra.

We can't just ignore these acts. Not when this reaches
our shores.

The Middle East conflict has deeply affected
communities in Australia.

The appointment of Jillian Segal as Special Envoy to
combat antisemitism in Australia is part of the
government's efforts to ensure that all Australians
feel safe and included.

The duties of this Special Envoy will be - to listen to
and engage with the Jewish Australians, the wider
Australian community, religious experts, and all levels
of government on the most effective way to combat
antisemitism.

The federal government will also appoint a Special Envoy
for combating Islamophobia and the details will be
announced shortly.