Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

CONTENTS
1.0 INTRODUCTION 5
1.1 The Year in Review 6
1.2 Racism in Australia and Antisemitism 7
1.3 Forms of Antisemitism 8
2.0 COMMON THEMES IN ANTI-JEWISH RHETORIC 9
2.1 Introduction 9
2.2 ―Jewish Power‖ 10
2.3 ―International Jewish Conspiracy‖ 10
2.4 Holocaust Denial 11
2.5 Jewish/Nazi Analogy 12
2.6 Holocaust Denigration 13
2.7 Jews as ―Un-Christian‖ and Judaism as ―Anti-Christian‖ 15
2.8 Jewish Stereotypes 16
2.9 ―Street‖ Antisemitism 16
2.10 The Effect of Vilification 16
3.0 INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE, VANDALISM AND
INTIMIDATION 19
3.1 Introduction 19
3.2 Reports for Year 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009 20
3.3 Serious/Violent Incidents 21
3.4 Telephone Intimidation and Hate Mail 23
3.5 Graffiti 26
3.6 Hate Email 27
3.7 Leaflets, Posters and other Miscellaneous Harassment 29
4.0 ANTISEMITISM IN THE MEDIA AND THE
COMMUNITY 31
4.1 Introduction 31
4.2 Political Parties 33
4.3 Mainstream Media 33
4.4 Middle East Politics 40
4.5 Arabic-Speaking and Islamic Communities 45
4.6 The Left 54
4.7 Churches 64
5.0 ON-LINE MEDIA 67
5.1 General Issues 67
5.2 Websites Based in Australia 69
5.3 Indymedia 71
5.4 Electronic E-Mail, Newsgroups, Lists and Clubs 73
6.0 ANTISEMITIC ORGANISATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS 77
6.1 Introduction 77
6.2 One Nation 79
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