Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion

As the Bondi Royal Commission continues, a prominent campaigner against antisemitism is showing his fierce opposition to social cohesion. Wendy Bacon with story.

Sheina Gutnick, whose father Reuben Morrison was killed in the Bondi Massacre, was the first witness to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. He shared his “lived experience” of antisemitism, including fears for his children’s future.

Gutnick serves as the Public Affairs Officer for the Action to Counter Antisemitism (CAM) in Australia, a role he took up in April.

In his evidentiary evidence at the Royal Commission, he describes CAM as undertaking “civic education, grassroots activism and policy advocacy to combat antisemitism”. He told the Commission that his job involved monitoring hundreds of anti-Semitic comments, including on CAM’s websites.

Counsel assisting the Royal Commission, Zelie Heger SC, assured Gutnick that his and CAM’s recommendations would be taken seriously.

As he gave evidence, Gutnick and the CAM team Daily Telegraph (DT) has been pressuring City of Sydney Mayor Clover Moore for weeks to cancel the City’s site booking. Stop the Palestine War (SWOP) for a discussion on the proposed ban on the slogan ‘Globalize the Intifada’.

CAM has requested that Sydney Mayor Clover Moore cancel the group’s Council booking. They falsely accused the group of being Hamas supporters who wanted to kill Jews and linked them to the Bondi massacre.

Despite the pressure, Moore initially stood firm in favor of the right to peacefully assemble and protest.

But Gutnick and other victims of the Bondi terror attack published an open letter in the DT on the eve of his appearance at the Royal Commission:

This increased the pressure on Moore.

They called the SWOP event a ‘hate fest’ that would encourage violence and “undermine Australia’s core values ​​of justice, community and friendship”.

Early the next evening Clover Moore gave in and instructed the Council to cancel the reservation. He explained his position in a media statement that positioned antisemitism alongside Islamophobia and racism, and emphasized his support for protest and inclusivity.

He attributed his step back to concerns that holding the event during the early stages of the Royal Commission could contribute to “hostility and fear”. Moore blamed the media for “divisive rhetoric that has increased tensions more than any small community event.”

SWOP moved its meetings to an inner-city park.

CAM grassroots activists were also busy organizing a rally alongside far-right activists in Inner Sydney on 5 May.

Movement to Combat Antisemitism

CAM is a global movement headquartered in the United States and claiming 3.5 million supporters. It has close ties with the state of Israel. Its CEO, Sascha Roytmann, lives in Tel Aviv and was previously head of New Media Desk. IDF Spokesperson Unit From the IDF.

CAM’s Advisory Board Chairman is Natan Sharansky, former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, who sees the branding of Israel as an apartheid state as “a modern form of anti-Semitism rhetoric.”

International Court of Justice and leading international and Israeli human rights organizations have found:

Israel is an apartheid state.

Australia is just one of 60 countries where CAM has used tactics such as social media, lobbying politicians and holding conferences to relentlessly pursue its aim of embedding the IHRA definition of antisemitism in policy at all levels of government, including outlawing BDS campaigns.

CAM’s Outreach Officer is EJ Kemball, a far-right Christian and Trump supporter with significant experience lobbying on behalf of Israel. It does its job To increase CAM’s support among Christian Zionists. A security and intelligence expert, he previously served as Director of U.S. Operations. Israel Allies Foundation.

CAM Australia mirrors this US model by forming a right-wing pro-Israel coalition with the Christian group Never Again is Now (NAIN). aims

Discredit and disband the pro-Palestinian movement and promote a culture based on ‘Judeo-Christian’ values.

CAM and NAIN have been working together since 2024. Last year NAIN partnered with CAM on the first national conference for Australian Mayors, held at a luxury hotel on the Gold Coast.

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Another conference is planned for November in Sydney. Their last joint activity was a rally the day after Gutnick testified. The content of the rally was Prime Minister Chris Minns’ plan to ban the slogan ‘Globalize the Intifada’.

‘Judeo-Christian’ Sydney rally

Clover was ecstatic about the ‘wins’ of CAM and Never Again after Moore backed out, but she was still in Moore’s eyes. They moved their rally to the City of Sydney’s grounds in Sydney Park. MWM Approximately 50 people and approximately 20 police officers were present at the meeting. Regular early evening runners were surprised to see lighted displays and a small crowd draped in Israeli and Australian flags in a shadowy corner of Sydney Park.

The main message was a nationalist call to defend so-called ‘Judeo-Christian’ values. Pro-Palestinian protesters, including Moore himself, have been labeled as supporters of terrorism. Speakers included militant pro-Israel activists and One Nation, anti-immigration and Islamophobic crusaders.

There was MC “Colesy”A Pauline Hanson fan who is fiercely anti-immigration. “The intifada is coming for all our families, our sons, our daughters. Police, media, politicians, you can stop it tonight. No matter what they say. We saw it in Bondi. We don’t need to see it anymore. It’s time to cancel it. Remove it. Get rid of cancer, let’s live in peace,” he demanded.

‘Trombone Tone’ is an evangelical Christian and One Nation campaigner who set the tone with ‘Waltzing Matilda’. He blamed the Bondi massacre on “the importation of a bunch of Islamists… and now we have this,” he said, pointing to a photoshopped photo of protesters at the Opera House.

CAM was represented by Ofir Birenbaum, who came for the first time. MWMs Announcement as organizer of astroturf groups Better Council and Better Australia. that lately solved a case Opposite the Cairo Takeaway cafe in Enmore, Sydney.

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Birenbaum described his own youth in Israel and blamed the violence of the Intifada and restrictions on Palestinian movements.

For Birenbaum, the cancellation of the SWOP meeting was a win, but only the beginning: “That’s what happens when we stop asking for permission and start asking for accountability. And that’s what happens when you finally stand up to bullies, because that’s who they are, nothing less.”

He then attacked Clover Moore and absurdly suggested that she was ‘siding’ with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by attending the 2025 March on the Harbor Bridge.

Ali B and Michael Gensher

Anti-Islamic Royalist Iranian Ali Beikzadeh (Ali B), who was never promoted again, continued to attack Moore for “standing right next to a bloody portrait of Khamenei on the Harbor Bridge and having the audacity to say I was proud of myself for joining the Harbor Bridge march.”

This was another lie, as Moore did not stand next to the portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In fact, a single banner was photographed of the Iranian Supreme Leader standing behind Moore and other community leaders.

Ali B also threatened the activists: “You know who you are… If you continue your ways, we will continue to expose you all one by one, let me be very clear about this. If you continue to continue this nonsense, none of you deserve to live in Australia, on Australian soil… Let’s cut the nonsense. Now everyone who adopts this idea.

“They are directly responsible for what happened in Bondi.”

Another speaker Michael Gensher, He runs the Australian branch of Stand with Us, which builds links with Israel and combats antisemitism. Last year, Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reservists who served during the war in Gaza organized visits to Australian universities that included ‘immersive experiences’ to create ‘social cohesion’.

CAM, NAIN and their right-wing collaborators @aus4civilization have garnered thousands of likes on social media platforms.

CAM CEO Sacha Roytman, who watched the event in Tel Aviv, reported that the billboards were moved to the Park, where SWOP held its rally throughout the night. His post incorrectly suggested that SWOP was calling for “killing Jews in Australia”.

CAM called on the City of Sydney to adopt the IHRA definition and review its recruitment policies to ban similar gatherings in the future.

Meanwhile, he announced:after holding roundtable meetings with politicians and community leaders comprehensive presentation to the Royal Commission which supported tough measures to stop activities perceived as antisemitic

Its application pledges CAM to continue working “with interfaith partners and community leaders across Australia to advance genuine social cohesion.”

Judging by the CAM rally in Sydney Park, social cohesion is not where it’s headed.

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