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When a Royal Commission Can’t Recognise Antisemitism · The Slippery Slope

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  So we're living in a time where truth isn't just ignored, it's
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  treated like a threat. Governments, agencies and
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  institutions that once claimed to protect us now seem more
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  interested in protecting themselves.
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  And when truth becomes becomes inconvenient, they don't correct
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  the lies, they double down on them.
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  And nowhere is that clearer than what we just witnessed in
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  Australia's Royal Commission into anti Semitism, where a
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  witness openly questioned Israel's right to exist and
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  whether it is even a legitimate state.
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  I'm Jay Fallon and this is the Slippery Slope podcast. down.
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  So the witness was Rita Jabri Markwell.
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  She's a solicitor and policy advisor for the Australian
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  Muslim Advocacy Network. She presented A dehumanisation
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  framework designed to classify hate speech.
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  So under her model, speech directed at governments,
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  militaries and political ideologies, they're protected,
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  but speech targeting people based on race or religion
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  breaches the framework. But during cross examination,
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  the conversation exposed something, something far, far,
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  far deeper. So Commissioner Virginia Bell
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  asked asked her, Asked Markwell directly.
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  Would you accept that there is a legitimacy, a legitimacy to the
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  existence of the state of Israel?
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  So Markwell's response was this, she says.
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  I don't think I have a view particularly on the time of that
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  declaration. Now remember when Israel was was
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  reformed in 1948, the very next day, all of their Muslim
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  neighbours, they've made this declaration that they were going
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  to utterly destroy Israel. They lost the war, but you know,
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  if, if the war and all the subsequent wars had have panned
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  out for all these Muslim nations, they keep declaring
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  they're going to destroy Israel. If it had a declare, if it had
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  panned out for them, she'd have a completely different point of
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  view. But they've lost every, every
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  battle, virtually everything that their goals of utterly
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  destroying Israel have never worked out.
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  So therefore, she doesn't have a view particularly on the time of
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  that declaration. But she goes on to say, but I
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  don't think that any state that relies on unlawful occupation
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  and apartheid and genocide could be said to be a legitimate state
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  with that sink in. Like I said, if all those Muslim
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  countries had won the war and had white Israel out and they
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  were looking to utterly annihilate Israel, then their
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  point of view would be completely different.
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  Then she follows up with there needs to be serious thought as
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  to how we fulfil every human's human rights in that region.
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  This is not a neutral legal opinion, OK?
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  This is a denial of Israel's legitimacy inside a royal
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  Commission which is designed to investigate anti semitism.
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  So you've got to look at what the UN has their claims for
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  genocide. In September 2025, a UN
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  Commission of inquiry found that genocide was occurring in Gaza.
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  The allegation of genocide is rejected by Israel.
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  The the issue is that activist interpretations are they were
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  presented as established fact, while Israel's position is
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  treated as relevant. And once you label a nation as
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  genocidal, you've already justified denying its right to
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  existence, its right to exist. So Zionism is defined by the
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  Anti Defamation League. It is a movement of self
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  determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their
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  ancestral homeland of Israel. OK, so Councillor Nicholas
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  Bender put to Markwell that her interpretation of Zionism would
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  mean she viewed all Zionists as violent extremists.
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  She rejected the suggestion, but her own language made the
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  implication unavoidable. So she was also taken to an
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  article by Maya Klein, who was a student, who said that she was
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  kicked out of university accommodation because she was a
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  Zionist. So Markwell's response was this,
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  She says I was moved by her values, client's values of peace
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  and coexistence. But when she talked about
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  Zionism, she's moved by her peace and talk of peace and
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  coexistence as long as it's what she wanted to hear.
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  But as soon as she talked about Zionism, remember Zionism,
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  Israel's right to exist, can't have the right to exist.
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  So when she talked about that, I found that difficult because
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  when I consider Zionism, this is Markwell speaking, when I
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  consider Zionism as the Jewish national ideology which led to
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  the creation of Israel in very violent circumstances, violent
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  circumstances, you know, the Germans, the Nazis trying to
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  kill, actually attempting genocide on the Jewish people,
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  That was the violent circumstances which led to the
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  recreation of Israel. She goes on to say all of that
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  doesn't seem consistent with any, with the positive values
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  that she was talking about that Klein was talking about.
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  I haven't yet heard a Zionist explain to me how they
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  incorporate Palestinians, Palestinian human dignity and
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  human rights into the ideological framework.
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  This is the problem. Zionism, the Jewish right to
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  self determination is treated as inherently incompatible with
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  human rights. That is not that's not analysis,
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  that is that's ideological hostility.
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  And it's all this right for this need for them to incorporate
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  Palestinian human dignity. And yet the nation of Egypt,
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  which also borders, you know, has control and in the past has
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  had control over the Palestinian state, The same expectations
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  isn't placed on the nation of Egypt, even though they are also
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  a Muslim nation. And the Palestinians would very
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  easily, you would think, be able to integrate into Egypt.
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  But for some reason, those expectations aren't put on
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  Egypt. No, it's all put on Israel.
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  It's all up to little tiny Israel.
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  A royal Commission into anti semitism is now platforming
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  arguments that deny the legitimacy of the Jewish state,
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  redefine Zionism as extremism and elevate activist narratives
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  as fact. This is what happens when truth
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  when truth becomes politically inconvenient, institutions start
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  treating lies as valid perspectives.
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  So a couple of scriptures that I've quoted that I have quoted
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  before 1 Isaiah 5914 says that truth has stumbled in the
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  streets and honesty cannot enter.
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  This is what's happening in Australia.
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  Truth has stumbled and lies are being welcomed into official
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  enquiries. And John 320 says everyone who
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  does evil hates the light. The light exposes hatred.
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  But institutions today avoid the light because it forces them to
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  confront uncomfortable truths, uncomfortable realities.
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  So if if we've got a royal, a royal Commission and it cannot
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  recognise anti semitism when it's staring them in the face in
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  the shape of Markwell, then what hope does the average citizen
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  have? This is how our society slides.
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  This is how all societies slide. Not through sudden violence, but
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  through the slow normalisation of lies.
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  Once you start questioning Israel's right to exist and
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  ignoring all the other facts surrounding it, ignoring all the
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  other failures of the Muslim nations that surround Israel,
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  ignoring all of their actions and then questioning Israel's
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  right to exist. But you're not critiquing
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  policy. You're not critiquing any of the
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  other Muslim nations that have been at fault and that have
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  attacked and constantly try to absolutely annihilate and wipe
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  out Israel, but all you want to do is attack the existence of
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  the Jewish homeland. That's not activism, that's
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  hatred. That is anti Semitism and it's
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  staring them in the face and they cannot even see it because
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  they've embraced the lies. Markwell's embraced the lies,
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  they've embraced Markwell. They embrace the lies and they
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  double down on it. Truth.
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  Truth should not be. It is not optional and it should
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  never be optional. Truth is not subjective and
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  truth is not a threat unless you're committed to the lie.
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  Truth is not a threat unless you're committed to the lie.
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  So when institutions start entertaining the idea that
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  Israel might not be a legitimate state, they're not analysing
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  anti semitism, they're enabling it.
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  And that's the slippery slope that we're on.
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  All this obviously is just my opinion.
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  Let me know what you think. I'm Jay Fallon and thanks for
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  listening to the Slippery Slope Podcast.
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  They just. Feel the desire