Wendy Bacon

As Israel intensified its assault on Gaza, its supporters in Australia gathered at a luxury resort on Queensland’s Gold Coast to discuss how to stop criticism of the state of Israel by labelling it antisemitic. Wendy Bacon and Stephanie Tran report.

The Zionist movement is unable to handle criticism, naming anyone who criticises their efforts at narrative control “antisemitic”, writes Wendy Bacon.

Israel’s real estate, property development, defence and finance industries are all represented at next month’s antisemitism summit on the Gold Coast. Yaakov Aharon and Wendy Bacon report.

An all-expenses-paid pro-Israel summit marketed to local government office bearers raises concerns about ethics and politics in their local communities. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon report.

The looming Combat Antisemitism Movement summit on the Gold Coast is backed by an assortment of human rights advocates, astroturfers, property developers and Zionist agitators, as Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon explain. 

Local councillors and mayors will attend a conference, organised by a Zionist coalition, which aims to get all levels of government to adopt the problematic International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon report.

 

Zionist social media influencers and Labor members Ofir Birenbaum and Sophie Calland are gearing up for the federal election. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon report.

Israeli-Australian Ofir Birenbaum skulked away from the Cairo Takeaway with a Daily Telegraph journalist and camera person after their mission to find “evidence” of an escalation of antisemitism failed. Wendy Bacon reports.

Better Council Inc claimed to be about local policies, but its aim was to remove Greens from local government in several inner city locations because of their support for Palestine. Wendy Bacon reports.

Wendy Bacon reports on a draft bill that proposes a new form of urban governance that could give NSW business property owners a special say over how public spaces are used.

The NSW Premier said he is pleased Deanna “Violet” CoCo was jailed for her non-violent protest. Wendy Bacon writes that he is out of step with human rights and climate change groups.

When the federal government needed advice on the terms of a $2 billion loan to the NSW government for its WestConnex tollway, it outsourced the advice to the private sector. With the increasing privatisation of public service, there was nothing unusual about that.

What was surprising is that the companies it chose were already heavily involved in working on WestConnex for the NSW government.

The NSW government wanted the $2 billion concessional loan for Westconnex Stage 2 and a massive interchange next to Sydney Park in St Peters.