At the Imperial War Museum in London, there’s a moving display about Nazis and the Holocaust, the ‘ultimate human evil’. Seeing it in May this year, I wondered if eventually there will be an exhibition of the Palestinian genocide.

I am still wondering why Jewish people who say ‘never again’ about that dreadful experience can support Israel repeating it against the Palestinians, the first genocide to be visualised in real time. Some in Australia aren’t supporters, including the members of the Jewish Council of Australia and Jews Against the Occupation 48. For their courage, they are vehemently attacked as ‘self-hating Jews’.

Two non-Jewish Australians, Mary Kostakidis and Antoinette Lattouf, have been accused of anti-Semitism merely for sharing social media posts to which Australian Jewish groups objected. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancelled a performance by British-Australian pianist Jayson Gillham, who made a truthful statement about Palestinian journalists being targeted and killed in Gaza. The Sydney Theatre Company survived outrage from subscribers and donors after actors appeared on stage wearing kaffiyehs.

When students who protested against Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza were attacked, neither university authorities nor much of the legacy media defended them. Yet Eva Shteinman, a post-graduate researcher in medicine, deplored the lawsuits against the University of Sydney and its Vice-Chancellor over the alleged ‘sustained and toxic nature of the attacks on Jews’. She said, on the contrary, that she’d ‘witnessed shocking’ anti-Palestinian racism on........

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