The Jewish Lobby

On weather control, mostly.

Let’s play spot the difference:

One of these quotes was yelled from a megaphone at a Neo-Nazi rally out the front of NSW parliament on the weekend. The other was said by former foreign minister, former NSW premier, (and recent board of Sydney Water appointee) Bob Carr.

• “The Jewish lobby is one of the most powerful lobbies in Australia. They bribe our politicians, they coerce our politicians.”

• “We are not going to be intimidated by the pressure of the Jewish lobby in Australia”.

The pejorative term ‘lobby’—accurate when one is talking about gambling or tobacco—is designed to frame all Jewish community organisation as nefarious.

I have spent ample time in close proximity to what I assume is being referred to as “the Jewish lobby”. The distance between conspiracy and reality has been stretched for centuries when Jewish community actions and intentions are brought up.

That stretch—that antisemitic inability to subject disinformation and conspiracy to honest inquiry—has irreparably changed Jewish Australian life, leaving homes and shuls burnt, children spat on the street, and the normalisation of crude calls for collective punishment on global Jewry across all Australian cultural institutions.

Jewish artists are subjected to interrogations on their beliefs concerning The Jewish State’s right to exist, their shows petitioned and their worlds shrunk by antisemitic suspicion and hostility.

Neo Nazi Rally, Sydney, November 2025.

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) office in Melbourne, much like its sister headquarters in Sydney, is unmarked and unremarkable but for the average IQ of staff under their employ. For security reasons—and for abject lack of any muck to rake, I can’t say much more than this: if this is The Jewish Lobby in question, then Bob Carr and the Neo-Nazis are tilting at windmills.

And to anyone who thinks AIJAC is in any way affiliated with AIPAC: they’ve got about as much in common as Anset and Ansell.

A few kilometres from AIJAC’s Melbourne office, and across the road from the remains of Hash Tayeh’s burnt out Caulfield Burgertory franchise, sits the Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre—which was vandalised in early 2024. Behind its bomb-proof walls and tight security checkpoint, which I’m whisked through by the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV)’s Community Engagement Manager Josh Goodman, are 20 Australian Jewish community organisations. There are only so many bomb threats a community can choose to ignore.

Josh is preparing educational material for workplaces like Officeworks, who in 2024 were recorded denying services to a Jew.

Having spent most of my adult life as an antizionist, a political outlook fashioned from antisemitic conceptions of Jewish power, it has taken years of re-education to unpick how and why that narrative is both omnipresent and alluring.

I reflected on this allure as I watched my contemporaries’ reactions to October 7:

History and truth-telling have been replaced by an infographic, feeling-oriented politic born not of understanding but from its corrosive antithetical: shame. And from this dynamic is born yet another Western proxy war.

I believe that White Liberal Westerners see Israel in the mirror; a modern incarnation of all the things they resent about themselves; a nation-building enterprise that exists at the expense of someone else; a USA-backed puppet state armed to the teeth; as no more than a cynical western outpost in the Middle East; as a country of white people (false, of course) dispossessing an indigenous population (misleading, of course); as an island of perceived privilege and security poking out from a river of blood.

— The Colour of Shame: How and why the creation and undermining of Jewish security exists at the whim of white fragility. 6/1/2024.

While antisemites decry their corrupting influence on politicians and the media, Jewish organisations have been subject to extreme levels of antipathy from within the Australian Jewish community post October 7. As Jews experience the censorship, vandalism, and violence, our organisations have demonstrated an inability to meaningfully communicate our experiences to the broader Australian community.

What those of us who like to complain often fail to consider is: the more our organisations attempt to be heard, and the more they advocate on our behalf, the more their efforts are used as further evidence of Jewish power. The sad truth is that regardless of many of their shortcomings—of which none are unique to Jewish organisations—the dice are loaded against Jewish community-organised advocacy.

Sending Australians of influence—politicians, journalists, etc—to see the Middle East first hand, is an attempt to de-grease the antisemitic lens that Israel is typically regarded with. These excursions are funded by Jews of all persuasions, pooling their resources in an attempt to lead the horse to water. These trips reek not of corruption, but desperation. What other community has to fly people across the world to be seen?

Antisemites seem to believe that by leading a horse to water, one can not only force it to drink, but to then piss the contents of its zionist-corrupted bladder into the halls of Australian power.

Even if this were the case, one might note that this cunning example of Jewish trickery has failed.