Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

6.0 ANTISEMITIC ORGANISATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
6.1 Introduction
Australia continues to be host to a plethora of organisations which promote antisemitism,
including some who have this as their primary purpose. The groups vary greatly in their
membership, their activities and their target audiences.
Some of the individuals who lead far right-wing and antisemitic organisations have been
involved in extremist political activity for decades. The organisations which they have led
are supplemented by a changing group of individuals and minute groupings of individuals,
including some who have established their presence primarily through their activities on the
internet (which permits the small organisations to maintain an existence and gives potential
recruits a point of contact).
The existence of Labor state governments Federally and in most Australian States fed the
paranoia of "socialist" control which is so important to the extreme right wing organisations.
It should be noted that not all antisemitic organisations can be accurately classified as "far
right". There are conspiracy theorists who are identified with quasi New Age, Libyaninspired
"Third Way" and political Islamist philosophies which also have promoted
antisemitism. These groups continue to feed a steady stream of anti-Jewish propaganda to
their followers.
The Australian far-right fringe is internally dynamic and in a constant state of flux.
Individuals who promote, for example, a return to policies which actively disadvantage
Indigenous Australians, have shown a mobility between overtly antisemitic groups, populist
movements and pseudo-militia groups. The extremist element of the anti-immigration
movement divide their time and attention between these groups and neo-Nazi or quasinationalist
movements.
For those who have antisemitism as their prime concern there are alternatives such as the
various Identity Churches, conspiracy propagandists with no firm affiliations, as well as
groups who have social division high on their political agendas.
Amongst the small group of individuals who, figuratively and literally, wave the flag for
US-based neo-Nazi groups including the Ku Klux Klan, the Church of the Creator and
White Aryan Resistance, transference of allegiance takes place at a pace which seems to be
determined by the intent of gaining optimal media interest.
The core group of activists from Australians Against Further Immigration aligned
themselves with either One Nation or Australia First, prior to the merge of these two groups
for the November 2001 Federal election and again with the demise of One Nation.
Personalities associated with groups such as the Immigration Control Association, the
Progressive Liberal Party, National Alliance or other now defunct far right-wing groups
have re-appeared in the late 1990s as activists of contemporary manifestations of older
conservative or neo-fascist advocacy groups.
In addition to organisations, although not necessarily totally separate from them, are a
number of individuals who are involved actively in distributing antisemitic material on the
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