Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

internationally and in Australia is out of all proportion to the number of their core
believers and both influence and numbers appear to be growing.
The British Israelites, maintain that the British people are the "lost ten tribes" of Israel and
that they constitute the "Chosen People". Interpreting Christianity as a racially rather than
religiously based community, Jews and non-Europeans appear as non-humans, or at best
agents of Satan, in their cosmology. In addition to running religious services for its
membership, it has bookshops and a mail-order service for literature and cassettes. The
British-Israel World Federation bookshop in Sydney has increased stocks of Holocaust
denial material and antisemitic literature and become more overtly concerned about "the
Jews". The BIWF sells a large range of antisemitic material, from overtly "Identity"
sources as well as from neo-Nazi and pro-Nazi groups who did not necessarily share their
"religion". The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is amongst the titles sold in their book
shop and by mail order.
The Covenant Vision Ministry, based in Sydney's outer western suburbs is led by Frank
Dowsett, who also contributes to The Strategy newspaper. As well as conducting services
and holding meetings, the Ministry publishes newsletters and reading lists and maintained
a web-site for some of the period in review. In printed form and on the internet the
Covenant Vision Ministry publishes Australian and international antisemitic material, to
supplement the views of Frank Dowsett. In the newsletter, Covenant Vision, Dowsett
warned Christians that "the driving force behind every anti-Christian activity known to
mankind" are "Esau-Edom, now known as and acknowledged by themselves to be,
modern day Jewry. Thus we conclude that 'the kingdom of Satan', or 'the Beast System', is
identified as and manifest through, Esau-Edom-Idumean-Jewry-Zionism". Dowsett
advised readers that Jews will be destroyed by "The Lord".
The Christian Identity Ministries of far north Queensland promote a particularly nasty and
extensive catalogue of literature for sale by mail order. Material which they disseminate
includes Holocaust denial, attacks on "Judeo-Christians", promotions of booklets and
tapes by Sheldon Emry, advertisements for the Nation of Islam's The Secret Relationship
Between Blacks and Jews and promotions for Jack McLamb, US Militia personality. The
CIM served as both a resource for, and propaganda arm of, a variety of far right- wing
organisations. Its output includes reprints of US material from the most extreme of the
antisemitic Identity Churches, Holocaust denial and "classic" anti-Jewish texts.
One of the organisations whose material is promoted and sold by Identity groups is the
Revival Centres International. This group, which is much larger than any other of the
"churches" in this section, has 38 Australian pastors. The Identity churches see the RCI as
a kindred spirit, which is unsurprising given that the RCI declare, on their Australian
internet site, their "Identity" belief, i.e "WE BELIEVE the Bible identifies the Anglo-
Saxon people with the Old Testament nation of Israel . . . ". and publications such as Jacob
versus Esau rehash all identity myths and paint Jews as the agents of Satan.
Discussing the significance of "anglo-racial superiority teachings", a former member of
the Revival Centres wrote that "luckily" most Revival Centre members did not grasp the
"Identity" message "or its logical racist end" but that serious Revival Centre members
"definitely show these racist overtones". To illustrate his point he quoted from a Revival
Centre book which explained that organisation's "two stage creation" theory. "The Bible
deals only with the Adamic race, who were created in the likeness of God to have
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