Antisemitism: trinity of envoys clouds contest for social cohesion

The discussions about the Private Ambassador Jillian Segal’s plan of anti -Semitism Plan bring the following question: Should the government should endure special ambassadors in a social cohesion role? Ali Reza Gunespour writer.

Private ambassador Jillian Segal’s has attracted the attention of the media since its release on 10 July 2025. The answers either objected to the proposals in the plan or named Especially in the middle of the revelation that her husband donated $ 50,000 for the right -wing Australia to resign.

However, these media answers to Jillian Segal’s plan could be a little predicted. The reason for this is that since the mid -2014, the approach of assigning the Albanian government to three apostles for anti -Semitism, Islamophobia and social adaptation, Jewish and Muslim communities and others, ignore the interdependent challenges.

In doing so, the Albanian government worsened the cultural differences and filed the suffering of a group because he accidentally deserved more than another in Australia.

Separate Ambassador District Community Department

The terrible Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 and the next invasion and killing More than 58,000 people, including women and children in Gaza It led to a significant increase in the incidence of anti -Semitism and Islamophobia through the Israeli Defense Forces throughout Australia.

According to Jillian Segal’s plan, anti -Semitic events increased by 316% from October 2023 to September 2024. Similarly, Islamophobia Record Australia recorded In 2024, 309 personally Islamophobic events and Australia, Muslims, especially women and girls’ online hostility in the sharp rise in the ‘sharp rise’ said a ‘sharp increase’.

Facts and evidence that are incomplete in allegations about increasing anti -Semitism

On the other hand, the Albanian government appointed three private ambassadors: Jillian Segal On July 9, 2024, Peter Khalil deputy on July 29, 2024 as a special ambassador of social adaptation and and Malik Aftab Malik as a special ambassador to fight Islamophobia On September 30, 2024.

Accordingly, these ambassadors are expected to produce separate reports for the evaluation of the government.

The mind behind the appointment of separate ambassadors may be politically understandable. Finally Rising global conflicts And Growing problem -based polarizationIt is attractive for the government to concern by calling visible advocates for the affected Jewish and Muslim communities.

Although well -intentioned, separate reports are at risk of transforming the shared trauma into a recognition contest, as shown by the release of Jillian Segal’s latest plan.

Work together?

For example, Jillian Segal suggested that the ambassador to encourage and encourage the Jewish community to reconstruct, strengthen and finance long -term intercultural and intercultural initiatives.

However, the entire 20 -page plan did not mention once the government’s social harmony and Islamophobia ambassadors And how these three offices can work together or work.

Michelle Gratan rightly as a political journalist remarkableJillian Segal’s The plan has led to controversy because of the ‘over -defeated’ proposals and puts him very personally in what he believes he believes should be done to combat anti -Semitism ‘.

In addition, the ambassador struggling with Islamophobe is reported to work on a report to the Albanian government this year.

There are also some reports Peter Khalil has gained very little to encourage social harmony before and since the Federal elections of this year.

As a sitting mp, maybe it was hard to wander deeply Already a broken Australian society helps a common understanding and response to global conflicts, but the polarized election zones.

We need an independent ambassador

Jillian Segal’s plan and its debates on its reliability create a new opportunity for the Albanian government to appoint an independent ambassador for social harmony. The appointed would work with the Community Compliance Office (OCC) at the Ministry of Interior and had the capacity.

In its establishment in September 2024, the OCC is mandatory to coordinate all government initiatives to support ‘social adaptation and democratic flexibility in Australia’, but so far it has not been public about Jillian Segal’s latest plan.

Instead of three ambassadors, new independent ambassadors should use those widely approved for social harmony. National anti -racist framework Mapping of intersecting forms of discrimination and developing united strategies to encourage social harmony.

Such an ambassador can help Australia reach its multicultural values not only by recognizing the difference, but by strengthening our common points.

This is not a call for recognizing anti -Semitism or Islamophobia in this country. Both are real and dangerous. However, to deal with them alone without accepting their common roots, they miss an important opportunity for a deeper, permanent change.

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