Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

The LaRouche cult received some media coverage due to serious allegations that its
members were infiltrating, with some success, the conservative National Civic Council‘s
national network, using similar tactics to those which saw it subsume Citizens‘ Electoral
Councils some years ago.
In recent years, members of the Jewish community in Victoria, ACT, Western Australia,
Queensland and New South Wales complained about activities of LaRouchite propagandists
distributing conspiracy theorist propaganda. It was particularly active on campuses and
outside venues hosting Jewish community functions. The CEC's behaviour resulted in an
attack on them in the Australian Senate, by National Party Senator Ron Boswell, who said in
a speech in the Senate on 10 August 2004:
"There is a CEC candidate running in North Queensland in the seat of Dawson who is
already heavily advertising in the local media. I have had a look at the Australian Electoral
Commission returns for 2002-03 and they show the total returns to the CEC as $1,462,703,
while their media group, CEC services, had $271,592. They are well financed and able to
mount these campaigns.
Some of their more bizarre claims are that the world is controlled by an oligopoly led by the
Queen and Prince Philip, who also control the drug trade, and that the Ku Klux Klan is
controlled by the FBI. Mr Acting Deputy President, you would think that no-one would be
able to support claims like that. Yet there are some people that are gullible and they do fall
for it.
I want to say this too. The CEC is totally anti-Semitic--possibly even more so than the
League of Rights. Many people may have heard—I certainly have in rural Australia--that
Martin Bryant was set up as a patsy at Port Arthur to bring more restrictive gun laws into
Australia. Those are things that go round and should be absolutely debunked in this
parliament. The CEC publication regularly features ludicrous and defamatory attacks on
Jewish organisations and leaders such as Mark and Isi Leibler. They claim that the
Australian defamation commission and the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council are
protecting the world's financial oligopoly. In the past, the Leiblers have falsely been accused
of being part of illegal and immoral activity, including having links to the drug trade and
pornography. Again, that is a ludicrous claim. The CEC try to peddle their anti-Jewish
propaganda in areas with large Jewish populations. They distributed pamphlets outside
Jewish community centres when the Premier of Victoria was addressing the Jewish
community. The subject was `A recent trip of Steve Bracks to Israel'.
The CEC get a very minor vote--around 0.05, 0.06 or 0.07 per cent. But it is a vote they do
not deserve. When you talk about Lyndon LaRouche and the CEC, it is where truth becomes
stranger than fiction. (Extension of time granted) I made reference to the CEC being well
financed and being able to support a political campaign.
Already they are running television ads, and the election has not even started. But we ought
to explore some of their fundraising techniques. They are taught by operatives from the
LaRouche organisation in the USA and they raise most of their money through the use of
younger members. They start by cold calling very vulnerable people, such as the elderly and
the naive, with a prepared sales pitch and then they really work on them.
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