This website records a huge body of carefully researched and less than 200 word Letters I have sent individually  addressed by e-mail to the Editors  of major Australian Mainstream media (Australian MSM) in recent years.  The subject matter was extremely serious, dealing with existential  threats to Humanity and the Biosphere from nuclear weapons and climate  change, and documenting horrific human rights abuses, notably of the sorely oppressed Occupied Palestinians.  

Only  half a dozen of these Letters were published in whole or in part and the carefully researched Content is largely absent from Mainstream public discussion in US lackey, Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted, look-the-other-way Australia where the MSM are dominated by oligopoly commercial media (notably the awful US Murdoch media empire that has about 70% of the daily newspaper readership) and  the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC, the Australian equivalent of the similarly deficient  UK BBC). The UK-based Guardian and the multicultural Australian Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) are notable exceptions to the appalling media malaise in US lackey Australia. 

This website is a particular record (the tip of an iceberg) of what Australian Mainstream media and their Masters don't want people to see, read, know about or think about. This  represents a useful historical record of egregious lying by omission, lying by commission, censorship and self-censorship by Australian Mainstream media. 

To better appreciate my resolute  attempts to penetrate the Mainstream media Wall of Silence for 3 decades, it should be noted that I am an anti-racist, Jewish Australian scientist, secular Humanist, artist and  author of 10 huge books (this tally including several hugely updated and revised editions). I taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades. I published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, notably a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (2003). I also published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (2007, 2021), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (1998, 2008, 2022), “US-imposed Post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide” (2020), “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” (2020), “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide” (2024), and contributed to Soren Korsgaard (editor) “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published – Dangerous Deception Exposed!” (2020). For images of my huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/  . I have also published  huge number of typically lengthy, detailed and exhaustively documented humanitarian articles around the world over the  last 30 years e.g. see “Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/home , and for those published on Countercurrents in particular see “Gideon Polya Countercurrents articles”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestinegenocideessays/gideon-polya-countercurrents-articles .  

Set out below are Letters from  Dr Gideon Polya e-mailed individually to the editors of major Australian media.  The most recent are put first so the horrific and worsening carnage is not minimized. The few actually published are indicated in bold. This is a shocking testament to what Australian Mainstream media do not want their readers to see, hear, know about or think about.

(A). 7 October  2023 onwards i.e. since the Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp.

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15 October 2025. 872,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation”:  “Re future War Crimes Trials of Zionist Israelis, Americans, Australians and others complicit in the Gaza Genocide, I have just published a detailed and exhaustively referenced analysis entitled “Unforgivable 2-Year Gaza Massacre, Gaza Genocide & Gaza Holocaust By 50 Appalling Numbers”. Most notably, after 2 years of killing there have been 872,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase) including such deaths of 324,000 CHILDREN, 207,000 women and 341,000 men.  This is a conservative estimate  based on data published in the leading medical journal The Lancet and ignoring the extreme vulnerability of under-5 infants. A WW2 Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and writer, over 3 decades I have published over 1,000 huge articles and 9 huge books about such deaths. Only 4 media publishing in Australia have reported that hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been killed in the 2-year Gaza Genocide (Independent Australia, The Guardian, Pearls & Irritations and Arena). The rest presently report 67,000 deaths, culpably under-counting Gaza deaths by a factor of 13. MSM, Labor and the Coalition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Inaction is complicity. Silence is complicity.”

13 October 2025. 873,000 Gaza deaths indicates deaths of 324,000 children: “Based on grossly “under-counting” Mainstream media reports of 67,000 Gaza deaths, a respected Australian medium asserts that “Tens of thousands of children have been killed”. However, an international team of expert epidemiologists published in The Lancet found that 64,260 Gazans had been killed violently by 30 June 2024 (Day 269 of the Gaza Genocide). Assuming the same rate of killing, this translates to 174,625 Direct (violent) deaths by 7 October  2025 (Day 731 or after 2 years). However other expert epidemiologists published in The Lancet and elsewhere have “conservatively” estimated that deaths from deprivation (Indirect deaths) are 4 times the Direct deaths, this implying 698,499 Indirect deaths and a total of 873,124 “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase)  by 7 October 2025.  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has estimated that of deaths reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health the breakdown was 37.1% (children), 23.7% (women) and 39.1% (men). Conservatively  assuming that these proportions apply to the total of 873,000 Gaza deaths indicates deaths of 324,000 children, 207,000 women and 341,000 men after 2 years of the Gaza Genocide. 19 countries have criminalized understating deaths in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust. Print the awful truth. ”

10 October 2025. 880,000 Gazan “deaths from  violence and deprivation”: “ The civilized world welcomes the prospective cessation of the continuing genocidal Zionist killing spree in Gaza, but is seriously concerned that the 20-point Trump-Netanyahu Peace Plan will violate Palestinian human rights and the sovereignty of the State of Palestine, substituting American rule for US-backed Zionist Israeli rule. Famed anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Jeffrey Sachs has proposed an alternative 20-point Peace Plan (“Twenty-point plan minus the US-UK colonialism”) which is based on International Law, Palestinian sovereignty and excludes Hamas and related armed groups from governance: “It is also consistent with international law: in line with the 2024 ruling of the  International Court of Justice, the recent resolution of the  United Nations General Assembly, and the recognition of Palestine by 157 countries… Revised Trump plan with no colonial strings attached”. Netanyahu and Trump are responsible for a Gaza Holocaust involving  880,000 Gazan “deaths from  violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase) in 2 years (as estimated from epidemiological data in The Lancet), and should have nothing more to do with Palestine. In an effective “ICJ Peace Plan” the ICJ  has ordered immediate peace by an end to the illegal Zionist Israeli Occupation and settlements plus reparations for harm done*.” *Gideon Polya, “ICJ Gaza Peace Plan Versus  Racist Peace Plan Of Genocidal War Criminals Trump & Netanyahu”, Countercurrents, 4 October 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/10/icj-gaza-peace-plan-versus-racist-peace-plan-of-genocidal-war-criminals-trump-netanyahu/ .

9 October 2025.  872,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” : “Eminent Professor Stuart Rees (9 /10/25): “Hamas health sources’ figures put the death toll of Gazan civilians, mostly women and children, at 66,000. Yet, studies in the UK medical journal the Lancet, by US journalist Ralph Nader and by Australian academics Gideon Polya and Richard Hil, estimate that fatalities should also take in death by deprivation, and in consequence they show well over 500,000 deaths”. I have published a thousand huge articles and 9 huge books on avoidable mortality from deprivation of Subject People from the Australian Aboriginal Genocide to the Australia-complicit Gaza Genocide, and estimated that by 7 October 2025 there had been 872,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase)*.  Yet US- and Zionist-perverted Western and Australian Mainstream media presently report 67,000 dead, shamefully undercounting the actual death toll by a factor of 13. Such undercounting of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust  has been criminalized by Canada, Israel and 17 European  nations. The Occupied/ Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio was 21 (Gaza, 2008-6 October 2023) and 872,000/600 = 1,453 (2 years of the Gaza Genocide, assuming IDF responsibility for half the 1,200 Israeli deaths) versus 10 ordered by Hitler and effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Cave Massacre.* *Gideon Polya, “Gideon Polya Rally Speech Demanded Action On 680,000 Gaza Deaths By 25/4/25 – Now 872,000”, Countercurrents, 7 October 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/10/gideon-polya-rally-speech-demanded-action-on-680000-gaza-deaths-by-25-4-25-now-872000/ .”

8 October 2025. 872,000 Gazan “deaths from violence and  deprivation”: “ Genocide is defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. A holocaust implies the killing of a huge number of people and was first used in WW2 to describe the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians starved to death). 17 European countries plus Canada and Israel have laws criminalizing denial of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed), the crime including substantial diminution of the extent of the atrocity. However Australia belongs to the all-European, 35-member International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) that is holocaust denying by ignoring  all WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust. In their dishonest speeches to Parliament about the events of 7 October 2023 both Labor and the Coalition railed about “ terrorism”, “antisemitism” and “the Holocaust” but made no mention of ANY Palestinian deaths, let alone an expertly estimated 872,000 Gazan “deaths from violence and  deprivation” (Google the phrase) over the last 2 years, 36% of the pre-war population of 2.4 million*. 28% of the pre-war population of Jewish Hungarians (my people) were killed by the Nazis (cc MPs). *Gideon Polya, “Gideon Polya Rally Speech Demanded Action On 680,000 Gaza Deaths By 25/4/25 – Now 872,000”, Countercurrents, 7 October 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/10/gideon-polya-rally-speech-demanded-action-on-680000-gaza-deaths-by-25-4-25-now-872000/ . “

7 October 2025. Gaza Genocide inaction and censorship mean complicity: “The 7 October 2023 Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp was the commencement of the Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust in which (as estimated from the data of expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet) 680,000 Gazans died from violence and deprivation  by 25/4/2025 and 872,000 by 7 October 2025, this including 614,000 children, 81,000 women and 177,000 men. Yet mainstream media report 67,000 Gaza deaths in what acclaimed American analyst Ralph Nader called  a massive “undercount” in an essay placed on the US Congressional Record. Western and Australian mainstream media and politicians ignore the horrendous magnitude of the Gaza Holocaust. Indeed outstanding truth-telling  Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis has stated: “Many are increasingly seeing the mainstream media as enablers of genocide”.  Labor and the Coalition  are unforgivably complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Australia has hugely assisted Apartheid Israel by fervent support, intelligence, diplomacy and a large 2-way arms trade. I recently addressed the huge weekly Sunday Gaza Rally in Melbourne and stated: “Those voting for Labor, the Coalition or like-minded candidates are complicit in genocide”. Gaza Genocide inaction and censorship mean complicity.”  

6 October 2025. Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp: “Facts ignored by US- and Zionist-perverted Mainstream media re the Occupied Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp  on 7 October 2023: (1). The Israelis were aware of the attack plans for a year (New York Times). (2). The IDF withdrew 2 battalions before the attack, ignored attack reports, and responded belatedly. (3). The Breakout happened despite world-leading Israeli intelligence and population surveillance and incarceration technology. (4). 1,600 Gazan attackers in Israel were killed on Days 1-2.  (5). Of the 1,200 Israelis killed 97.5% were adults and hence because of compulsory military service were overwhelmingly past or present Occupier soldiers. (6). The Occupied have a right to rebel but the Occupiers have no right to self-defence in a belligerently occupied territory. (7).  IDF high explosive missiles and shells killed  many or most of the 1,200 Israelis killed. (8). 10,000 imprisoned Palestinian hostages, 5.6 million Occupied Palestinian hostages. (9). 680,000 Gazans killed by violence and deprivation by 25/4/2025 (data in The Lancet) and 872,000 Gazans killed, mostly children, in 2 years. (10) Labor and the Coalition are unforgivably complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Inaction and silence mean complicity.”  

5 October 2025. “Deaths from violence and deprivation”(Google the phrase): “Eminent, truth-telling and Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Chris Hedges in an essay reporting the cancellation  of his address to the Australian National Press Club reports that 278 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza. “Journalists killed per year per million of population” is a world-leading 71.3 (Gaza), 0.2 (Iraq) and 0.0084 (the world). A 6-decade career scientist (over 100 scientific papers and 2 huge science books), in the last 3 decades I have also reported “deaths from violence and deprivation”(Google the phrase) imposed on Subject people in war, famine, occupation, colonialism, neo-colonialism, hegemony and genocide (in a thousand huge and  exhaustively referenced articles and 9 huge books). However for 2 decades I have been subject to extraordinary and continuing censorship. Nevertheless I have responsible humanitarian editors overseas who give me a voice that I use as a science-informed voice for the billions of impoverished humanity that have no voice. I am proud that I have also defended in print (necessarily overseas of course) some 40 Australian writers, many of them eminent, who have been variously importuned in a US- and Zionist-perverted Australia subject to egregious censorship and vile, anti-democracy lying by omission and commission.”

4 October 2025. Israeli kidnapping of Australians in international waters: “The  prime duty of Australian politicians is to protect Australians but when it comes to protecting Australians from Zionist Israeli criminals they are silent – except for the Greens and their ilk. Thus Australians have recently been violently kidnapped in international  waters by Zionist Israeli soldiers, illegally transported to Apartheid Israel, and physically maltreated. Yet deafening silence  from Labor and Coalition politicians whereas the Greens have demanded government action to protect Australians attempting to deliver aid to starving Gaza which is deemed by the ICJ to be illegally Occupied by genocidal Apartheid Israel. Inaction is complicity and silence is complicity. The huge body of Australian journalist, editor, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes who actively (through advocacy and censorship) or passively (through silence) support Australia-violating  Apartheid Israel  are supporting the vile crime of Apartheid and are thus utterly unfit for decent company, public life and public office. However they also carry the stench of cowardice, betrayal and treason. Notable but rare exceptions are the Greens of course, and former PM Rudd who on 1 June 2010 slammed Zionist Israeli kidnapping of Australians in international waters – 23 days later he was removed in an overnight, US-approved, mining company-backed and pro-Zionist-led coup.”

3 October 2025. Israeli violation of  Australians in international waters: “I am a Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist, humanitarian writer and author of 10 huge books. Unlike Zionists so fervently supported by the Labor Government and the Coalition Opposition, I have  a sole national allegiance to the country of my birth, Australia. I was a founding member of Free Palestine Melbourne (FPM) that has an ethnically and culturally diverse  membership including very active anti-racist Jewish as well as Palestinian, Arab and Muslim members, and has helped organize huge weekly Sunday rallies for Gaza for 2 years (every Sunday, 12 noon, Victorian State Library). I am presently greatly concerned because (a) a highly-respected FPM member, medical practitioner Dr Bianca Webb-Pullman, and associates  have been forcibly kidnapped in international waters by Zionist Israeli soldiers and subjected to physical abuse, and (b) the Labor Government has not condemned nor sanctioned Apartheid Israel for these criminal acts against Australian citizens. On 1 June 2010 PM Rudd strongly condemned such Zionist Israeli violation of  Australians in international waters. Despite his attempts to pacify Zionists outraged by this and his expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the forging  of Australian passports, on 24 June 2010 PM Rudd was removed in a pro-Zionist-led coup.”

2 October 2025. Some eminent anti-racist Jewish opinions: “Speeches by 2 eminent Australian lawyers at the National Press Club this week criticized what Israel is doing in Gaza. There is a large body of eminent Jewish and non-Jewish humanitarians who have voiced strong criticism of Zionist colonialism over the last century. Indeed  Google “Jews against racist Zionism” and “Non-Jews against racist Zionism” and discover the opinions of numerous Jewish critics (notably Nobel Laureates Harold Pinter, Albert Einstein and Nadine Gordimer) and non-Jewish critics (notably Nobel Laureates Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu). Some eminent anti-racist Jewish opinions are particularly notable in today’s circumstances e.g. Moshe Menuhin  (“Jews should be Jews - not Nazis”), Naomi Klein (“There is a debate among Jews - I'm a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: "Never again to everyone, or never again to us?... [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card...There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say[s], “Never again to anyone””), Professor Bertell Ollman (“The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis”) and Sir Isaac Isaacs (“The honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism”).”

1 October 2025. ICJ’s Gaza Peace Plan of 19 July 2024: “ICC-sought war criminal Netanyahu and war criminal Trump, his partner in the Gaza Holocaust (680,000 killed by “violence and deprivation” – Google the phrase - by 25 April 2025 and 872,000 by 7 October 2025) have advanced a racist Gaza Peace Plan whose sole merit is cessation of the violent killing. Humane and ethical ABC journalist John Lyons: “This is not the proposal of an honest, independent broker”. However see the Office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner on the ICJ’s Gaza Peace Plan of 19 July 2024: “Israel and other UN Member States must immediately comply with the authoritative determination by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, independent human rights experts said today. The landmark ruling of 19 July 2024 declared that Israel’s occupation of the Gaza strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is unlawful, along with the associated settlement regime, annexation and use of natural resources. The Court added that Israel's legislation and measures violate the international prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid. The ICJ mandated Israel to end its occupation, dismantle its settlements, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims and facilitate the return of displaced people”.

 30 September 2025. 77 years of anti-Arab anti-Semitic non-Recognition: “Recognition of the State of Palestine by most countries (and now including Australia after 77 years of anti-Arab anti-Semitic non-Recognition) is welcome recognition of the right of Indigenous Palestinians inside and outside Palestine to self-determination in their own country and indeed to all the human rights specified in the Universal Declaration  of Human Rights (UDHR), notably Article 13: “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country” and Article 15: “Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality”. Recognition is not enough. Occupied Palestinians and Exiled Palestinians must be immediately granted on pain of draconian Sanctions all the UDHR-specified human rights from which they are still excluded. Ditto Israeli Palestinians who can vote for the government ruling them (albeit for Zionist-approved candidates) but are subject to 65 race-based, Nazi-style discriminatory laws. This anti-racist Jewish Australian says that those supporting Apartheid Israel and hence the crime of Apartheid are unfit for decent company, public life and public office.”

29 September 2025. Unforgivable Orwellian lies of omission and commission: “At the UN General Assembly PM Albanese devoted 8 sentences (over 130 words) to selectively and specifically name and condemn asserted “terrorism” and “antisemitism”. However he made no mention of Israel, Israeli Apartheid or the 2 year,  Zionist Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre, Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust involving 680,000 Gazan “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase) by 25 April 2025 or 870,000 by 7 October 2025, and mostly children.  He did however announce “And - this week - Australia recognised the State of Palestine” after 77 years of racist and anti-Arab anti-Semitic non-recognition. However while Australia applies sanctions to 15 countries (only one of which, Russia, has illegally invaded another country) a US- and Zionist-perverted  Australia will still not apply urgently required economic and diplomatic sanctions against Apartheid Israel for UNGA-, UNSC-, ICC- and ICJ-condemned occupation, war crimes and genocide. The world is morally culpable by inaction over the Gaza Holocaust and existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and climate change. Yet Labor has made Australia a key base for US soldiers, missile-targeting intelligence and nuclear-armed submarines, surface ships and B52s. Indeed climate criminal Labor’s “Net Zero Plan” involves 40 unforgivable Orwellian lies of omission and commission*.  *Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Australia’s False Net Zero Plan To Deceive World & Pacific For COP31”, Countercurrents, 28 September 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/09/climate-criminal-australias-false-net-zero-plan-to-deceive-world-pacific-for-cop31/ .”

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26 September 2025. Gaza Massacre, Gaza Genocide, Gaza Holocaust, Palestinian Genocide. “PM Albanese, UN General Assembly: “Australia is calling for a ceasefire. For the immediate release of the hostages. For aid to flow to those in desperate need. And for the terrorists of Hamas to have no role in Gaza’s future”. No mention of: (1) perpetrator Apartheid Israel, (2) ICC-sought Netanyahu, (3) about half of the 1,200 Israelis killed on 7 October 2023 were killed by high explosive IDF firepower, and 97.5% were adults and thus mostly past or present soldiers involved in the UNGA-, ICC- and ICJ-deemed illegal, 58 year Occupation, (4) 10,000 Palestinian hostages held by Apartheid Israel and pre-war 5.6 million Occupied Palestinians held hostage without human rights under highly abusive military rule, (5) Israeli violation of 15 International Laws and Conventions, notably the Genocide, Apartheid and Geneva Conventions, (6) Hamas killed 600 Israelis versus 680,000 Gaza “deaths from  violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase) by 25/4/25 and 872,000 after 2 years, mostly children (Google 680,000 Gaza), (7) Gaza Massacre, Gaza Genocide, Gaza Holocaust, Palestinian Genocide (Google these terms). Both Labor and Coalition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Silence is complicity. Inaction is complicity. “

24 September 2025. 680,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation”. “Eminent Australian lawyer and human rights advocate Paul Heywood-Smith KC has condemned “The failure of our media to properly inform the Australian public on the Israel/Palestine issue”. That reportage failure is well illustrated by Western and Australian Mainstream media  (MSM) under-reporting of 680,000 deaths in the nearly 2 year Gaza Genocide. Australian and Western MSM report 65,000 Gaza deaths but resolutely ignore expert estimates based on data published in the leading medical journal The Lancet of 680,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase) by 25 April 2025 (Day 569 of the Gaza Holocaust). “680,000 Gaza deaths” has been widely reported by non-MSM throughout the World, most notably by the UN reporting Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinians. In Australia it has only been reported in articles in Arena, Independent Australia and Sydney Criminal Lawyers, and in my letters published by Independent  Australia and the informed and humane Pearls & Irritations (that after publishing all of 8 successive letters by me suddenly ceased publishing any). Holocaust ignoring is far worse than utterly repugnant holocaust denial (selectively criminalized  in Belgium, Germany and Israel) because the latter at least permits public refutation and debate.”

23 September 2025. Nazi is as Nazi does, terrorist is as terrorist does. “Zionist-perverted Australia’s highly qualified recognition of the State of Palestine comes after (1) 77 years, (2) mass ethnic cleansing in 1948 (0.8 million), 1967 (0.4 million) and 2023-2025 (2.4  million adumbrated), (3) century-long Palestinian deaths from violence and deprivation totalling 2.7 million, (4)  only 10% of Palestine left for the State of Palestine, (5) based on data in The Lancet, 680,000 Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation by Day 569 of the Gaza Massacre or 28% of the pre-war Gaza population, this including 136,000 violent deaths, 544,000 non-violent deaths,  380,000 under-5 infant deaths from deprivation, and deaths of 479,000 children in total,  63,000 women and 138,000 men, (6) estimated Gaza deaths after 2 years of 872,000 in total or 36% of the pre-war Gaza population, this including 615,000 children, 81,000 women and 177,000 men, (7) children killed per year 308,000 (Gaza) versus 250,000 (Jewish children under Nazi Germany), (8) child deaths as a percentage of total deaths 70% (Gaza) and 25% (Jewish deaths in Nazi-occupied Europe), and (9) prisoners killed per day per million of prisoner population 498 (Gaza Concentration Camp) versus 23 (Australian POWs of the Japanese). Nazi is as Nazi does, terrorist is as terrorist does.”  

18 September 2025 to P&I:  The UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry’s report  concluded: “The State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide and the failure to punish genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”. Importantly it states: “The duty to prevent and punish genocide applies not only to the responsible State but to all States Parties to the Genocide Convention and indeed to all States”. However the US- and Apartheid Israel-beholden and cowardly Australian Labor Government will not act, most notably against dual Israeli-Australian citizens involved in the Gaza Genocide. Indeed successive Labor and Coalition Governments have declined to pass legislation  enabling such action within Australia, as revealed by the Federal Court  rejecting an Aboriginal Genocide case brought by  Indigenous Australians. Indeed the Australian Labor Government and Coalition Opposition have made Australia “complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways” (Google this phrase). I and my colleague Professor Richard Hil estimate 680,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase) by 25 April 2025. While a Middle East Monitor post on X entitled “680,000 dead” has received 627,000 views, Mainstream Australian media report 64,000 deaths

18 September 2025. The UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry concluded: “The State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide and the failure to punish genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”. Importantly it states: “The duty to prevent and punish genocide applies not only to the responsible State but to all States Parties to the Genocide Convention and indeed to all States”. However the US- and Apartheid Israel-beholden and cowardly Australian Labor Government will not act, most notably against dual Israeli-Australian citizens involved in the Gaza Genocide. Indeed successive Labor and Coalition Governments have declined to pass legislation  enabling such action within Australia, as revealed by the Federal Court  rejecting an Aboriginal Genocide case brought by  Indigenous Australians. Indeed the Australian Labor Government and Coalition Opposition have made Australia “complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways” (Google this phrase). I and my colleague Professor Richard Hil estimate 680,000 Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase) by 25 April 2025. While a Middle East Monitor post on X entitled “680,000 dead” has received 627,000 views, Mainstream Australian media report 64,000 deaths*.

* Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, “Australian mainstream media continue to hugely understate Gazan death toll”, Countercurrents, 15 September 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/09/australian-mainstream-media-continue-to-hugely-understate-gazan-death-toll/ .

17 September 2025 to P&I:  International health workers report the deliberate targeting and killing of Gaza children by shots to the head. However the wartime ratio of indirect deaths from imposed deprivation to direct, violent  deaths ranges from 2 (Iraq War, 1990-2011) to 16 (Afghan War, 2001-2021). Expert epidemiologists published  in the leading medical journal The Lancet estimated  that 64,260 Gazans had died violently by 30 June 2024 (day 269 of the killing) and hence that 136,000 Gazans had died violently by 25 April 2025 (day 569). Epidemiologists “conservatively” estimated 4 deaths from imposed deprivation in Gaza for every violent death, this indicating 544,000 non-violent deaths and 680,000  Gazans killed by violence and imposed deprivation by 25 April 2025 –  11 times greater than the 64,000 Gaza deaths  presently reported by  media  and 28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million. Under -5 infants are about  70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries (Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”). It is estimated that the 680,000 deaths include deaths of  380,000 under-5-year-old infants, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men – an utterly unforgivable Zionist Israeli crime. Inaction, non-reportage and silence all constitute utterly unforgivable complicity in genocide.

17 September 2025 to  MSM re 680,000. International health workers report the deliberate targeting and killing of Gaza children by shots to the head. However the wartime ratio of indirect deaths from imposed deprivation to direct, violent  deaths ranges from 2 (Iraq War, 1990-2011) to 16 (Afghan War, 2001-2021). Expert epidemiologists published  in the leading medical journal The Lancet estimated  that 64,260 Gazans had died violently by 30 June 2024 (day 269 of the killing) and hence that 136,000 Gazans had died violently by 25 April 2025 (day 569). Epidemiologists “conservatively” estimated 4 deaths from imposed deprivation in Gaza for every violent death, this indicating 544,000 non-violent deaths and 680,000  Gazans killed by violence and imposed deprivation by 25 April 2025 –  11 times greater than the 64,000 Gaza deaths  presently reported by  media  and 28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million. Under -5 infants are about  70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries (Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”). It is estimated that the 680,000 deaths include deaths of  380,000 under-5-year-old infants, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men – an utterly unforgivable Zionist Israeli crime. Inaction, non-reportage and silence all constitute unforgivable complicity in genocide.

For details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Australian mainstream media continue to hugely understate Gazan death toll”, Countercurrents, 15 September 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/09/australian-mainstream-media-continue-to-hugely-understate-gazan-death-toll/ .

13 September 2025 to MSM re Gas. Climate criminal Labor greenlights gas. The World Bank Group argues for climate action by “smarter” capitalism but climate change analyst Julian Cribb comments: “They do not even mention concepts such as degrowth, rewilding, circular economics or depopulation. Largely, too, they are market-based, seeming to embrace the idea that the poison can also be the cure.” Wild  nature contributed  50% of total animal biomass in 1860 but only 5% by 2020. A 6 decade biological chemist  I published a huge book entitled “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” in which I  provided some 40 partial solutions and in Chapter 3 addressed the question: “How much  negative emissions, negative population growth and negative economic growth is needed to save planet?” Me: 50% population and economic degrowth. Eco-socialism says that “nicer” capitalism is insufficient and that unless we husband and equitably share what’s left  of our finite resources billions will perish. For an American lifestyle we need 7 Planet Earths. The market has failed climate-wise (Lord Stern) -  the damage-related Carbon Price is $200 per tonne CO2 but the global average applied price is $2 per tonne CO2 (IMF). The solution to the Gaza Genocide and Climate Genocide: all human rights to all.

13 September 2025 to P&I re Gas. Excellent critique by Julian Cribb of proposals by the World Bank Group for climate action by “smarter” capitalism. Cribb concludes: “They do not even mention concepts such as degrowth, rewilding, circular economics or depopulation. Largely, too, they are market-based, seeming to embrace the idea that the poison can also be the cure.” Wild  nature contributed  50% of total animal biomass in 1860 but only 5% by 2020. A 6 decade biological chemist  I published a huge book entitled “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” in which I  provided some 40 partial solutions and in Chapter 3 addressed the question: “How much  negative emissions, negative population growth and negative economic growth is needed to save planet?” My estimate: 50% population and economic degrowth. Eco-socialism correctly says that “nicer” capitalism is insufficient and that unless we husband and equitably share what’s left  of our finite resources billions will perish. For an American lifestyle we need 7 Planet Earths. The market has failed climate-wise (Lord Stern) -  the damage-related Carbon Price is $200 per tonne CO2 but the global average applied price is $2 per tonne CO2 (IMF). The solution to the Gaza Genocide and Climate Genocide: all human rights to all.  

12 September 2025 to MSM & PI  re Pacific, climate. Climate criminal Australia is deceiving the South Pacific, and shamelessly bribing too. Nearly 60 years ago I married into a huge Sunni Muslim Indo-Fijian family and consequently have had a keen interest in Pacific affairs, intimately informed by participants. Some Elephant-in-the room matters: (1). Western missionaries and slavers ("blackbirders") brought disastrous epidemics to the Pacific (e.g. in 1875 about 40,000 Fijians died from measles out of a population of 150,000). (2).  Brutal indentured labour was exploited  by the British in the South Pacific (indeed all the grandparents of my dear late wife were “5 -year slaves” for Fiji sugar cane plantations). (3). Fiji suffered 4  “bloodless” coups that variously involved the US, Australia and weapons-supplying Apartheid Israel (about 100,000 Indians left – they were 50% of the population in 1987 but 33% by 2017). (4). Increasing sea temperature means increased evaporation and thence disastrously increased precipitation world-wide, and the South Pacific is acutely threatened by sea level rise,  high energy cyclones and storm surges (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Crisis , Climate Genocide & Solutions”, 843pp). (5). Climate criminal  Australia has 0.3% of the world’s population but its annual Domestic plus Exported greenhouse gas emissions are 5.4%  of the World’s.

10 September 2025 to MSM. 2 September 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the formal end of World War 2 (WW2) in Asia, known in America as Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day). However Mainstream Western and Australian responses have been offensively deficient. Some Elephant-in-the-Room realities largely ignored by Sinophobic and US-beholden Mainstream Western and Australian media like Australia’s  ABC: (1) China officially estimates 35 million Chinese WW2 deaths in 1937-1945. (2) The huge Chinese Communist and Nationalist resistance to Japanese invasion of China made Japanese invasion of remote Australia impossible. (3) I have not seen any expression of gratitude to the Chinese people by Western governments on VJ Day. (4) Only 5 European heads of State (all Eastern European) attended the Commemorative Parade in Beijing. (5) Robert Menzies was called “Pig Iron Bob” for enabling iron exports to Japan as it was devastating China and thus made Australia complicit in the Chinese Holocaust. (5) Lest we forget (deaths in brackets) the Japanese-imposed WW2 Chinese Holocaust (35 million), the  Nazi Germany-imposed WW2 Soviet Holocaust (23 million), the “forgotten” British-imposed and food-denying Australia-complicit WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million), and the ongoing, Australia-complicit  Gaza Holocaust (680,000 by 25 April 2025). Holocaust ignored yields holocaust repeated.

10 September 2025 to P&I. Excellent refutation by Paul Malone of ABC malreportage about China. 2 September 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the formal end of World War 2 (WW2) in Asia, known in America as Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day). However Mainstream Western and Australian responses have been offensively deficient. Some realities largely ignored by Sinophobic and US-beholden Mainstream Western and Australian media like the ABC: (1) China officially estimates 35 million Chinese deaths in 1937-1945. (2) The huge Chinese Communist and Nationalist resistance made invasion of remote Australia impossible. (3) I have not seen any expression of gratitude to the Chinese people by Western governments on VJ Day. (4) Only 5 European heads of State (all Eastern European) attended the Commemorative Parade in Beijing. (5) Robert Menzies was called “Pig Iron Bob” for enabling iron exports to Japan as it was devastating China and thus made Australia complicit in the Chinese Holocaust. (5) Lest we forget (deaths in brackets) the Japanese-imposed WW2 Chinese Holocaust (35 million), the  Nazi Germany-imposed WW2 Soviet Holocaust (23 million), the “forgotten” British-imposed and food-denying Australia-complicit WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million), and the ongoing, Australia-complicit  Gaza Holocaust (680,000 by 25 April 2025). Holocaust ignored yields holocaust repeated.

 5. September 2025 to P&I & published. .  This is an extremely important article by John Menadue demanding total trade sanctions against Israel because of hundreds of thousands of Gaza deaths. Dr Zeina Jamaluddine and colleagues estimated that 64,260 Gazans died violently by day 269 of the Gaza massacre (30 June 2024) (The Lancet) and hence 136,000 Gazans died violently by day 569 (25 April 2025) with a “conservatively estimated” four times that number (544,000) dying from imposed deprivation for a shocking total of 680,000 deaths from violence and deprivation by 25 April 2025.

That is 28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million, and 11 times the present mainstream media under-counted estimate of 62,000 deaths. Western mainstream media under-count indigenous deaths in US wars. Thus, in December 2011, the Australian ABC reported on Iraqi deaths: “The [US] withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4500 American soldiers dead."

I estimated 2.7 million Iraqi deaths and seven million Afghan deaths from violence and war-imposed deprivation (Gideon Polya, US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide, 398 pages, 2020). The Brown University Costs of War Project: “At least 4.5 million people have died in the post-9/11 [US] war zones.” Iraq has five million orphans – go figure.

Letter

In response to The real death toll in Gaza

MSM under-count indigenous deaths in US wars

September 5, 2025

This is an extremely important article by John Menadue demanding total trade sanctions against Israel because of hundreds of thousands of Gaza deaths. Dr Zeina Jamaluddine and colleagues estimated that 64,260 Gazans died violently by day 269 of the Gaza massacre (30 June 2024) (The Lancet) and hence 136,000 Gazans died violently by day 569 (25 April 2025) with a “conservatively estimated” four times that number (544,000) dying from imposed deprivation for a shocking total of 680,000 deaths from violence and deprivation by 25 April 2025.

That is 28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million, and 11 times the present mainstream media under-counted estimate of 62,000 deaths. Western mainstream media under-count indigenous deaths in US wars. Thus, in December 2011, the Australian ABC reported on Iraqi deaths: “The [US] withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4500 American soldiers dead."

I estimated 2.7 million Iraqi deaths and seven million Afghan deaths from violence and war-imposed deprivation (Gideon Polya, US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide, 398 pages, 2020). The Brown University Costs of War Project: “At least 4.5 million people have died in the post-9/11 [US] war zones.” Iraq has five million orphans – go figure.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

LAST LETTER TO BE PUBLISHED BY P&I! PUBLISHED BY P&I as Gideon Polya, "MSM under-count indigenous deaths in US wars", Pearls & Irritations, 5 September 2025 : https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/09/msm-under-count-indigenous-deaths-in-us-wars/ .

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4 September 2025 to MSM. Australians are being deceived by Coalition climate change denialism, false “we are tackling climate change” rhetoric from Labor, and  non-reportage of the significant off-shore gas basis for Trump’s Plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza (killing kids for gas). The atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs; notably CO2, CH4, and N2O) from  unrestrained fossil fuel and other exploitation are at record highs, are increasing at record rates, and existentially threaten Humanity and the Biosphere (Gideon Polya, “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions”, 843 pages, 2020).  Yet the Australian Government’s “Australian Energy Statistics – Update Report 2025” totally ignores the following: (1) atmospheric GHGs and global warming (!), (2) Australia’s huge iron ore exports that ultimately generate huge amounts of CO2  through coal-based reduction to iron, (3) gas leaks, has a high Global Warming Potential and  can be as dirty as coal use GHG-wise, (4) the damage-related Carbon Price is US$200 per tonne CO2 whereas the world average applied price is a mere  US$2 per tonne CO2 (huge intergenerational inequity), (6) huge Australian geothermal and tide power energy resources, and (7) Australia has 0.3% of the world’s population but its annual Domestic plus Exported GHGs are 5.4% of the world’s total.  

4 September 2025 published by P&I. Peter Sprivulis, “Sprinting to stand still: Still no progress in Australia’s energy transition”, Pearls & Irritations, 4 September 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/sprinting-to-stand-still-still-no-progress-in-australias-energy-transition/  .  

Important and revealing article by Peter Sprivulis. I am a half-century career biochemist and researched energy transduction in plants that over hundreds of millions of years generated huge fossil fuel  resources. The atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs; notably CO2, CH4, and N2O) from  unrestrained fossil fuel and other exploitation are at record highs, are increasing at record rates (notwithstanding “we are tackling climate change” political rhetoric), and existentially threaten Humanity and the Biosphere (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions”, 843 pages, 2020).  Yet the Australian Government’s “Australian Energy Statistics – Update Report 2025” totally ignores the following: (1) atmospheric GHGs and global warming (!), (2) Australia’s huge iron ore exports that ultimately generate huge amounts of CO2  through coal-based reduction to iron, (3) gas leaks, has a high Global Warming Potential and  can be as dirty as coal use GHG-wise, (4) the damage-related Carbon Price is US$200 per tonne CO2 whereas the world average applied price is a mere  US$2 per tonne CO2 (huge intergenerational inequity), (6) huge Australian geothermal and tide power energy resources, and (7) Australia has 0.3% of the world’s population but its annual Domestic plus Exported GHGs are 5.4% of the world’s total. 

Gideon Polya, “Climate criminal Australia's huge CO2 emissions”, Pearls & Irritations, 4 September 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/09/climate-criminal-australias-huge-co2-emissions/ .

2 September 2025, published by P&I. Letter

In response to Marking September 2: Lest we forget

Chinese, Bengali and Gaza holocausts

Gideon Polya, “Chinese, Bengali and Gaza holocausts”, Pearls & Irritations, 2 September 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/09/chinese-bengali-and-gaza-holocausts/ .

September 2, 2025

Important article by Professor Jocelyn Chey. In the 1937-1945 Chinese holocaust 35-40 million Chinese died from violence and deprivation under Japanese occupation (15% of the pre-war population). Australian attorney-general Robert “Pig Iron Bob” Menzies made Australia complicit by permitting iron exports to Japan. Michael Portillo included me in a 2008 BBC program Bengal Famine that included comments from Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Welcome Institute, London): “That six to seven million [World War II Bengal famine deaths] figure includes the deaths that happened in let’s say the provinces of Bihar, Orissa and Assam”, economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen (Cambridge, Harvard): “Famines happen when they’re so extraordinarily easy to prevent”, and me (“Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”): “Rational risk management… to avoid a repetition”.

Food-denying Australia was complicit in the British-imposed Bengali holocaust designed to offer any invading Japanese forces a food-free Northeast India. Today, the Zionist Israeli-imposed and Australia-complicit Gaza genocide involves mass starvation by man-made famine, 680,000 Gazans or 28% of the pre-war population have been killed (mostly children), and the death rate per capita in Gaza is 25 times greater than that of Australian PoWs of the Japanese. Holocaust ignored means holocaust repeated.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

Letter

In response to Marking September 2: Lest we forget

Chinese, Bengali and Gaza holocausts

September 2, 2025

Important article by Professor Jocelyn Chey. In the 1937-1945 Chinese holocaust 35-40 million Chinese died from violence and deprivation under Japanese occupation (15% of the pre-war population). Australian attorney-general Robert “Pig Iron Bob” Menzies made Australia complicit by permitting iron exports to Japan. Michael Portillo included me in a 2008 BBC program Bengal Famine that included comments from Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Welcome Institute, London): “That six to seven million [World War II Bengal famine deaths] figure includes the deaths that happened in let’s say the provinces of Bihar, Orissa and Assam”, economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen (Cambridge, Harvard): “Famines happen when they’re so extraordinarily easy to prevent”, and me (“Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”): “Rational risk management… to avoid a repetition”.

Food-denying Australia was complicit in the British-imposed Bengali holocaust designed to offer any invading Japanese forces a food-free Northeast India. Today, the Zionist Israeli-imposed and Australia-complicit Gaza genocide involves mass starvation by man-made famine, 680,000 Gazans or 28% of the pre-war population have been killed (mostly children), and the death rate per capita in Gaza is 25 times greater than that of Australian PoWs of the Japanese. Holocaust ignored means holocaust repeated.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

2 September 2025, to MSM. 2/9/45: Peace in Asia. In the 1937-1945 Chinese Holocaust 35-40 million Chinese died from violence and deprivation under Japanese occupation (15% of the pre-war population). Australian Attorney General Robert “Pig Iron Bob” Menzies made Australia complicit by permitting iron exports to Japan. Michael Portillo included me in a 2008 BBC program “Bengal Famine” that included comments from  Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Welcome Institute, London): “That six to seven million [World War 2 Bengal Famine deaths] figure includes the deaths that happened in let’s say the provinces of Bihar, Orissa and Assam”,  Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen (Cambridge, Harvard): “Famines happen when they’re so extraordinarily easy to prevent”, and me (“Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”): “Rational risk management… to avoid a repetition”. Food-denying Australia was complicit in the British-imposed  Bengali Holocaust designed to offer any invading Japanese forces a food-free North East India. Today the Zionist Israeli-imposed and Australia-complicit Gaza Genocide involves mass starvation by man-made famine, 680,000 Gazans or 28% of the pre-war population have been killed (mostly children), and the death rate per capita in Gaza is 25 times greater than that of Australian POWs of the Japanese. Holocaust ignored means holocaust repeated.  

28 August 2025.The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is grossly violated by politically correct racist (PC racist) and egregiously mendacious Mainstream Australian journalist, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes in US- and Zionist-perverted Murdochracy, Corporatocracy and Lobbyocracy Australia. So much for fabled Australian blunt honesty and fair go. Thus Aunty ABC prohibits the use of the words “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe the Palestinian Genocide by Apartheid Israel (ditto the New York Times), and ignores numerous horrific Palestinian Genocide realities, notably: (a) 680,000 Gaza Genocide “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase) by 25 April 2025, mostly children, (b) Occupied Palestinian Subjects of Apartheid Israel are denied all Human Rights specified by the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the right to vote for the government ruling them, (c) “journalists killed per year per million of population” is 65 for Gaza versus 0.01 for the World, (d) Labor and the Coalition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, and (e) mass deception in the interests of Australia-violating Apartheid Israel via false “terrorism” and “antisemitism” hysteria. Silence is complicity. Inaction is complicity.

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21 August 2025. Gideon Polya, “10-fold MSM undercounting of 680,000 Gaza deaths”, Pearls & Irritations, 21 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/10-fold-msm-undercounting-of-680000-gaza-deaths/ .

Letter

In response to Open letter to journalists on the vast undercount of deaths and serious injuries

10-fold MSM undercounting of 680,000 Gaza deaths

August 21, 2025

Ralph Nader’s reportage on the undercounting of Gaza deaths is now on the US Congressional Record. From data reported in the leading medical journal The Lancet and elsewhere by a succession of expert epidemiologists (Dr Zeina Jamaluddine et al., Dr Rasha Khatib et al., Professor Devi Sridhar) 64,260 Gazans died violently by Day 269 of the Gaza Massacre (30 June 2024) and hence 136,000 Gazans died violently by Day 569 (25 April 2025) with a “conservatively estimated” four times that number (544,000) dying from imposed deprivation for a shocking total of 680,000 deaths from violence and deprivation by 25 April 2025.

Western mainstream media presently report about 60,000 Gaza deaths and thus under-report the carnage over 10-fold. In impoverished countries, about 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation are those of infants under five. (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).

It is accordingly estimated from available data that by 25 April 2025, the 680,000 Gazans killed (28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million) included 380,000 infants under five, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men. Interestingly, NSA-informed President Trump claimed 1.7 million Gazans were left, this implying 0.7 million were killed.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

20 August 2025. Gideon Polya, “Uni codes of conduct versus academic free speech”, Pearls & Irritations, 20 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/uni-codes-of-conduct-versus-academic-free-speech/ .

Letter

In response to Universities, free speech and the High Court

Uni codes of conduct versus academic free speech

August 20, 2025

Excellent article by Greg Barns. A science academic for four decades, I strongly objected to Codes of Conduct constraining academic free speech, and 25 years ago published a detailed critique entitled “Current censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities” that concluded “We should publicly insist that universities that constrain free speech are not fit for our children”.

As illustrated by the shocking Bendigo Writers Festival censorship debacle, free speech-constraining codes of conduct are now in place in Australian universities and threaten academic free speech and Australia’s $40 billion per annum education export industry. The Big Eight universities and numerous other Australian universities have disgracefully adopted a version of the highly flawed definition of antisemitism espoused by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to which Australia and 34 other European countries belong and which has been condemned by scholars worldwide and, indeed, by more than 40 anti-racist Jewish organisations.

The IHRA is anti-Jewish antisemitic and anti-Arab antisemitic (by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim critics of apartheid Israel as assertedly “antisemitic”) and Holocaust-denying (by ignoring all WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and, indeed, some 70 genocide and holocaust atrocities).

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

20 August 2025. IHRA, Australian universities and shocking Bendigo Writers Festival censorship debacle. A science academic for 4 decades, I strongly objected to Codes of Conduct constraining academic free speech, and 25 years ago published a detailed critique entitled “Current censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities” that concluded with a some key suggestions, the last being “We should publicly insist that universities that constrain free speech are not fit for our children”. As  illustrated by the shocking Bendigo Writers Festival censorship debacle, free speech-constraining Codes of Conduct are now emplaced in Australian universities and threaten academic free speech and Australia’s $40 billion pa Education Export Industry.

The Big Eight universities and numerous other Australian universities have disgracefully adopted a version of the highly flawed Definition of Antisemitism espoused by the Zionist International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance  (IHRA)  to which Australia and 34 other European countries belong and which has been condemned by scholars world-wide and indeed by over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations. In actuality the IHRA is anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic (by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim critics of Apartheid Israel as assertedly “antisemitic”) and holocaust denying (by ignoring all WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and indeed some 70 genocide and holocaust atrocities).

19 August 2025. Israel: grant all Palestinians all their human rights on pain of Sanctions to immediately end the Palestinian Genocide. The American Declaration of Independence famously stated ”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. This informed the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, notably (1) “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights…”, (2) “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race…”, and (3) “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”.

However the Occupied Palestinians  have been excluded from all these human rights. The Israeli Palestinians can vote, albeit for vetted candidates, but are subject to 65 race-based discriminatory laws. 7 million Exiled Palestinians cannot live in the country continuously inhabited by their forebears in an important 4,000-year civilization.  

The Israel-Palestine “conflict” can be resolved immediately by making Zionist Israel grant all Palestinians all their human rights under threat of draconian global sanctions like those that eventually freed South Africa from evil Apartheid – but genocidally racist Apartheid Israel simply won’t. Global inaction is complicity.

19 August 2025. Gideon Polya, “Israel: grant all Palestinians all human rights”,  Pearls & Irritations, 19 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/israel-grant-all-palestinians-all-human-rights/ .

Letter

In response to The response to recognition

Gideon Polya, “Israel: grant all Palestinians all human rights”, Pearls & Irritations, 19 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/israel-grant-all-palestinians-all-human-rights/ .

Israel: grant all Palestinians all human rights

August 19, 2025

Excellent analysis by Paul Heywood-Smith. However, crucial to any Palestine-Israel “settlement” is irrevocable application to all Palestinians of all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, notably (1) “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights…”, (2) “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind…”, and (3) “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”.

Pre-war, Indigenous Palestinians represented 50% of the subjects of Israel. However the Occupied Palestinians (5.6 million pre-war, with only 4.9 million now alive) are excluded from all these human rights. Unlike the sorely oppressed Occupied Palestinians, the 2.1 million Israeli Palestinians can vote for the government ruling them, albeit for vetted candidates, but are subject to 65 race-based discriminatory laws. Seven million exiled Palestinians cannot live in the country continuously inhabited by their forebears in an important 4000-year civilisation.

The Israel-Palestine “conflict” can be ended immediately by making Zionist Israel grant all Palestinians all their human rights under threat of draconian global sanctions like those that eventually freed South Africa from evil apartheid – but genocidally racist apartheid Israel simply won’t. Global inaction is complicity.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

18 August 2025. Gideon Polya, “At least 242 journalists killed: Inaction is complicity”, Pearls & Irritations, 18 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/at-least-242-journalists-killed-inaction-is-complicity/ .

Letter

In response to Where is the outrage? Israel's systematic mass assassination of journalists

At least 242 journalists killed: Inaction is complicity

August 18, 2025

Excellent article by Dr Jeremy Webb. The recent Zionist murder in Gaza of journalist Anas al-Sharif and four of his colleagues has sparked outrage around the world. Thus the UN: “The secretary-general calls for an independent and impartial investigation into these latest killings. At least 242 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Journalists and media workers must be respected, they must be protected and they must be allowed to carry out their work freely."

Likewise Free Palestine Melbourne (that helps organise huge Sunday Rallies for Gaza): “Killing journalists, nurses, and civilians will not erase the truth – it will expose their crimes to the world even faster. We demand the Australian media break its silence, abandon its complicity, and take moral responsibility to show the reality on the ground. We demand the Australian Government: Sanction Israel immediately. Cut all diplomatic, economic, and military ties with the terrorist regime. Join ICJ and ICC efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders”.

“Journalists killed per year per million of population” is now a shocking 64.5 for Gaza as compared in recent years to 0.5 (Syria), 0.3 (Afghanistan) and 0.01 (the world). Inaction is complicity. Silence is complicity.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

16 August 2025. “Journalists killed per year per million of population” is now a shocking 64.5 for Gaza as compared in recent years to 0.5 (Syria), 0.3 (Afghanistan) and  0.01 (the World).  The recent Zionist Israeli murder in Gaza of journalist Anas al-Sharif and 4 of his colleagues has sparked outrage around the world. Thus the UN: “The secretary-general calls for an independent and impartial investigation into these latest killings. At least 242 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Journalists and media workers must be respected, they must be protected and they must be allowed to carry out their work freely, free from fear and free from harassment”.

Likewise Free Palestine Melbourne (that helps organize huge Sunday Rallies for Gaza): “Killing journalists, nurses, and civilians will not erase the truth — it will expose their crimes to the world even faster. We demand the Australian media break its silence, abandon its complicity, and take moral responsibility to show the reality on the ground. We demand the Australian government: Sanction Israel immediately. Cut all diplomatic, economic, and military ties with the terrorist regime. Join ICJ and ICC efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders”.

“Journalists killed per year per million of population” is now a shocking 64.5 for Gaza as compared in recent years to 0.5 (Syria), 0.3 (Afghanistan) and  0.01 (the World). Inaction is complicity. Silence is complicity.

13 August 2025. Bear witness, inaction is complicity, silence is complicity. Heroic Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif was recently martyred in Gaza with 4 other journalist colleagues and left us a final inspiring message: “Yet I never stopped telling the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion – so that God may bear witness over those who stayed silent, accepted our killing, and did nothing to stop the massacre our people have endured for more than a year and a half”.

Similarly the  key imperatives from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust  and indeed from all genocide and holocaust  atrocities are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”.  Inspirational WW2 Polish hero Jan Karski tried to tell an unresponsive world about the Jewish Holocaust and the Polish Holocaust as they were happening.  

Yet for the West genocide post-WW2 is almost exclusively done by non-Europeans that the US doesn’t like (see “The Politics of Genocide”). The Australian Labor Government and Coalition Opposition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Mainstream Australia under-counts over 10-fold the horrific Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase). Bear witness, inaction is complicity, silence is complicity.

13 August 2025. Gideon Polya, “Bear witness: Remembering heroic Anas al-Sharif”, Pearls & Irritations, 13 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/bear-witness-remembering-heroic-anas-al-sharif/ .

Letter

In response to ‘I entrust you with Palestine’: The final testament of Anas al-Sharif

Bear witness: Remembering heroic Anas al-Sharif

August 13, 2025

Heroic Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif was recently martyred in Gaza with four other journalist colleagues and left us a final inspiring message: “Yet I never stopped telling the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion – so that God may bear witness over those who stayed silent, accepted our killing, and did nothing to stop the massacre our people have endured for more than a year and a half”.

Similarly, the key imperatives from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and indeed from all genocide and holocaust atrocities are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. Inspirational WW2 Polish hero Jan Karski tried to tell an unresponsive world about the Jewish Holocaust and the Polish Holocaust as they were happening.

Yet, for the West, genocide post-WW2 is almost exclusively done by non-Europeans that the US doesn’t like (see “The Politics of Genocide”). The Australian Government and Opposition are complicit in the Gaza genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Mainstream Australia under-counts over 10-fold the horrific Gaza “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase). Bear witness, inaction is complicity, silence is complicity.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, “Gaza death toll far worse than reported in Western media”, Independent Australia, 12 August 2025: https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/gaza-death-toll-far-worse-than-reported-in-western-media,20034 .

Key quote: “Based on The Lancet study’s findings of the first nine months of the Israeli-imposed Gaza massacre, the projected death total by 25 April 2025 is calculated at 136,000 violent deaths after 15.5 months of killing. In 2024, The Lancet reported a ‘conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death’. Assuming that deaths from deprivation were four times the violent deaths – an estimate at the lower end of projections – then the 136,000 violent deaths after 15.5 months of killing (25 April 2025) would imply 544,000 Gaza deaths from imposed deprivation. This would mean the total Gazan death toll would be 136,000 violent deaths plus 544,000 from imposed deprivation, leading to a staggering total of 680,000 deaths by 25 April 2025.”

8 August 2025. Gideon Polya, “Anti-racist Jews threatened by Zionist McCarthyism” , Pearls & Irritations, 9 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/anti-racist-jews-threatened-by-zionist-mccarthyism/ .

Anti-racist Jews threatened by Zionist McCarthyism

August 8, 2025

Excellent article by Professor Henry Reynolds. Australians are subject to massive “antisemitism hysteria”.

Antisemitism occurs in two equally repugnant forms, anti-Jewish antisemitism and anti-Arab antisemitism (including Islamophobia) but these three key terms (and indeed about 80 pertinent terms) were not mentioned in the recently released “Special Envoy’s plan to combat antisemitism”.

Data published by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet indicates that 136,000 Gazans died violently by 25 April 2025, with a “conservatively estimated” four times that number (544,000) dying from imposed deprivation for a shocking total of 680,000 deaths.

However, in Australia (as well as the US and UK), this carnage has been under-counted by a factor of 10 and deliberately masked by a massive, Zionist-run and hysterical “antisemitism” campaign that now threatens a McCarthyist curb on free speech in Australia and in our universities in particular.

Anti-racist, anti-apartheid and anti-Zionist Jews such as myself and the wonderful Jewish Council of Australia are not just vilified by Zionists, but threatened by this Zionist McCarthyism. However, my repeated complaints to media and MPs are ignored.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

6 August 2025. Gideon Polya, “Conditional recognition of Palestine mere words”, Pearls & Irritations, 6 August 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/letters_to_editor/2025/08/conditional-recognition-of-palestine-mere-words/  .

Conditional recognition of Palestine mere words

August 6, 2025

Reports of 60,000 Gaza violent deaths ignore (a) those blown to bits, (b) those buried under rubble, and (c) the hundreds of thousands dying from imposed deprivation and disease but uncounted because barely surviving, ill, exhausted and traumatised relatives did not risk being killed or injured and carry the dead bodies tens of kilometres in the heat to physically register their deaths with authorities.

However, expert epidemiologists published in the leading medical journal The Lancet expertly assessed 64,260 violent deaths after nine months, and by 25 April 2025 about 136,000 violent deaths, this indicative of 544,000 deaths from deprivation (expertly and ”conservatively” assuming four non-violent deaths per violent death), and 680,000 total deaths, this including 380,000 infants under five, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men.

Scared by the electoral consequences of images of skeletal children, the Australian Labor Government is adumbrating possible conditional recognition of Palestine, mere words that won’t stop the starving, killing and war criminal occupation. The Labor Government, at the very least, must demand of genocidal apartheid Israel: stop starving, traumatising and killing Australians and their thousands of Gaza relatives or face dire diplomatic and financial retribution.

— Gideon Polya from Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria 

6 August 2025. Israel: stop starving, traumatizing and killing Australians. Reports of 60,000 Gaza violent deaths ignore (a) those blown to bits, (b) those buried under rubble, and (c) the hundreds of thousands dying from imposed deprivation and disease but un-counted because barely surviving, ill, exhausted and  traumatized relatives did not risk being killed or injured and carry the dead bodies tens of kilometres in the heat to physically register their deaths with authorities.

However expert epidemiologists published in the leading medical journal The Lancet expertly assessed 64,260 violent deaths after 9 months and by 25 April 2025 about 136,000 violent deaths, this indicative of 544,000 deaths from deprivation (expertly and ”conservatively” assuming 4 non-violent  deaths per violent death), and 680,000 total deaths, this including 380,000 under-5 year old infants, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men.

Scared by the electoral consequences of images of skeletal children, the Australian Labor Government is adumbrating possible conditional recognition of Palestine, mere words that won’t stop the starving, killing and war criminal Occupation. The Labor Government at the very least must demand of genocidal Apartheid Israel: stop starving, traumatizing and killing Australians and their thousands of Gaza relatives or face dire diplomatic and financial retribution (cc MPs).  

5 August 2025. Zionist anti-Jewish anti-Semitism ignored by Australia . Most Jews are Ashkenazi Jews who descend from non-Semitic Turkic Khazar converts to Judaism. Indeed I come from a famous Ashkenazi Jewish Hungarian family (ask any mathematician or surgeon) and DNA analysis says that I am mostly Ashkenazi Jewish but with zero Middle Eastern Semitic Jewish contribution. I am ethnically not Semitic Jewish and as a secular Humanist I embrace the wonderful Jewish humanitarian tradition that  totally rejects genocide and the mass murder of children by bombs, bullets, deprivation and starvation.  

In contrast,  the Gaza Genocide-imposing and child-killing Zionists running genocidal Apartheid Israel (a) are also mostly Ashkenazim-derived  with zero Semitic Jewish basis, but (b) unforgivably reject fundamental injunctions of Judaism and of Humanity in general, most notably  “thou shalt not kill” and “thou shalt not kill children”.

Wearing my T-shirt saying “JEWS for a FREE PALESTINE” I invariably get supportive comments from total strangers, and recently encountered a supportive Arab stranger who declared “The Israelis are not Jews, they are Zionists”. He is correct but  genocidally racist Zionists and Zionist-perverted Labor and Coalition politicians falsely conflate Apartheid Israel with all Jews including  anti-racist, anti-Apartheid and hence anti-Zionist Jews - egregious Zionist anti-Jewish anti-Semitism ignored by Australia.

4 August 2025. Gaza starves while Zionist-perverted Labor does nothing. White Australia has a 237-year history of genocidal racism from the commencement of the Aboriginal  Genocide in 1788 to the landslide victory of US wars- and Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor in 2025. Indeed the first Australian PM Edmund Barton proclaimed (1901): “The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of an Englishman and the Chinaman”. Labor and the conservatives both backed the 1901-1973 White Australia Policy.

The Australian “Leading for Change” analysis (2018) showed that while Europeans and non-Europeans were 76% and 24%, respectively, of the Australian population, they represented 94.9% and 5.1%, respectively, of the senior leadership of Australian organizations and institutions such as the Federal Parliament, universities and Australian Stock Exchange-listed companies.

Re representational “diversity” in  2025,  women and men are roughly equal in numbers in both the Federal Parliament and the new Labor Ministry. However while the Australian population is 74.7% European, 25.3% non-European and 17.4% Asian (2021), the new Labor Government Ministry is 90.5% European, 9.5% non-European and 2.4% Asian. In the present Australian Parliament the distribution is 90.3% European, 9.7% non-European and 7.1% Asian. Meanwhile Gaza starves while Zionist-perverted Labor does nothing. Inaction is complicity.

1 August 2025. Over the Gaza Genocide decent Australian voters must  put the Coalition last and Labor second last. After nearly 22 months of Zionist Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre the pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Australian Labor Government still refuses to take any concrete action apart from sanctions against 2 far-right Israeli MPs and using the word “indefensible” to describe the mass starvation of Gaza children. The sheer racism of the fervently Zionist Coalition Opposition is revealed by its rejection of International Criminal Court-issued arrest warrants for 2 Zionist Israeli war criminals.  

Trump’s announcement that Canada will be punished trade-wise for proposing conditional recognition  of the State of Palestine in September 2025 means that it is extremely unlikely that the cowardly, racist, mendacious, US lackey,  Zionist-perverted and Gaza Genocide-complicit Australian Labor Government will follow Canada’s example.

Both Labor and the Coalition must be punished for trashing International Law, Humanity and Australia’s international reputation. Decent Australian voters must, to paraphrase the  Collingwood Football Club  song, “uphold the Aussies’ name” over the Gaza Genocide and put the Coalition last and Labor second last. World-wide decent people will reject buying goods and services from genocide-complicit Australians or intimacy with such Australians, asking what sort of people are you?  The Genocide and Occupation must stop NOW.

31 July 2025. “Zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. The core ethos of decent Humanity is Kindness and Truth. The key imperatives from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and indeed all genocidal atrocities are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. Indeed in science there is “zero tolerance for lying”. However there is an entrenched Australian culture of lying by commission and omission. Brilliant Australia writer Peter Carey: “If you really want to know what's happening [in] the world, you go out and get drunk with journalists and they will tell you what isn't in the papers.”

One nightmare example is malreportage of deaths from imposed deprivation in Gaza. Decent people are utterly horrified by images of emaciated Gaza children but the “balanced” taxpayer-funded ABC reports bald denials of starvation by mendacious Apartheid Israel and its Australian Embassy. Western Mainstream media are now reporting “60,000” Gaza deaths from violence but from data published by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet it is estimated that Gaza “deaths from violence and imposed deprivation” (Google the term) totalled 680,000 by 25 April 2025. This huge “under-reporting” has been reported in The Guardian, Independent Australia, Arena and Tasmanian Times*.

*Gideon Polya, “What Mainstream Australian Media Won’t Report ”, Tasmanian Times, 31 May 2025: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2025/05/what-mainstream-australian-media-wont-report/ .

30 July 2025. but today Gaza is starving while the world looks on. 30 years ago on the 50th anniversary of the end of WW2 I was made aware of the “forgotten” WW2 Bengal Famine through the great Satyajit Ray’s movie “Distant Thunder”. In this man-made atrocity (aka WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengali Holocaust) 6-7 million  Indians (my late wife’s people) were deliberately starved to death for strategic reasons in Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Odisha by the British with food-denying Australian complicity. This was the first WW2 atrocity to have been described as a “holocaust”,  happened at the same time as the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and killed more people but has been largely whitewashed from British history. An anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and writer, for 30 years I have been researching and writing about “deaths from violence and imposed deprivation” (Google the phrase) in these and other genocidal atrocities. My findings have been published in a thousand highly-referenced articles and 9 huge books but I have been rendered largely “invisible” to Mainstream Australia for 15 years by false Zionist defamation. I have been  driven by “bear witness”, “never again to anyone”, “history ignored yields history repeated” and “inaction is complicity” but today Gaza is starving while the world looks on.

28 July 2025. Betraying Humanity and trashing Australia’s reputation. The Australian Labor Government and the fervently pro-Zionist Coalition Opposition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, thus betraying Humanity and trashing Australia’s reputation (Google these terms for the Awful Truth). After 22 months of killing the Labor Government  has mumbled about “2 state solution” and “ceasefire” but has unforgivably failed to take any concrete action (e.g. Sanctions) against Apartheid Israel.  

Nasser Mashni (APAN) (28/07/2025): “Don’t get sucked into the 2 state solution narrative! 1. The Genocide must stop! 2. Those responsible must be held to account.  3. End the occupation. 4. End Apartheid. 5. Right of return for every Palestinian! In that order”.  In 2024  I published a huge book with a title having similar demands: “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide”.

Fundamentally the World must demand all human rights for Palestinians on pain of Sanctions against Apartheid Israel and all its supporters as were applied to Apartheid South Africa after 69 Africans were killed in the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. As of 25/04/25 Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation totalled 680,000, mostly children (The Lancet).*

* Professor Richard Hil and Dr Gideon Polya, “Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead”, Arena, 11 July 2025: https://arena.org.au/politics-of-counting-gazas-dead/ .

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24 July 2025 Letter re 30 ways Aussie anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against anti-racist Jews (anti-Zionist Jews) is entrenched in Zionist-perverted Australia

Dear Editor,

For 3 decades I have been researching “deaths from violence and imposed deprivation” of subjugated peoples in the global South due to European-imposed war and hegemony, with the findings reported in a thousand  huge and exhaustively referenced articles and 9 huge books (this including massively updating editions). However Google the phrase “deaths from violence and imposed deprivation” and you will find that the West simply doesn’t want to know, even though UN demographic data show that 1,500 million people have died avoidably from deprivation since 1950, 70% of them under-5 infants.  

Data published by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet indicate that 136,000 Gazans died violently by 25 April 2025 with  a “conservatively estimated” 4 times that number (544,000) dying from imposed deprivation for a shocking total of 680,000 deaths. In Australia (as well as the US and UK) this carnage has been under-counted by a factor of 10 and deliberately masked by a massive “antisemitism hysteria” campaign that now threatens a McCarthyist curb on free speech in Australia. Also ignored by Mainstream Australian media and politicians are 30 ways Aussie anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against anti-racist Jews (anti-Zionist Jews) is entrenched in Zionist-perverted Australia* (cc MPs).

Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya [contact details].

*Gideon Polya, “30 Ways Anti-Jewish Anti-Semitism Against Anti-Racist Jews Entrenched In Australia & West”, Countercurrents, 23 July 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/07/30-ways-anti-jewish-anti-semitism-against-anti-racist-jews-entrenched-in-australia-west/ .

23 July 2023. Yet the Gaza Genocide-complicit  Australian Labor Government refuses to act thus against Zionist war criminals,

Under “universal jurisdiction” countries may prosecute individuals for serious crimes against international law (e.g. war crimes, genocide, and torture) on the basis  that such crimes harm the international community or international order itself. About 10,000 Israelis including many dual citizenship Australian Israelis visited Australia since 7/10/2023. Because of compulsory Israeli military service many of them were complicit in war crimes in the Gaza Genocide associated by 25/4/2025  with deaths of 680,000 Gazans from violence and imposed deprivation including 380,000 under-5 year old infants, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men (as estimated from data in the leading medical journal The Lancet)*.

Yet the Gaza Genocide-complicit  Australian Labor Government refuses to act thus against Zionist war criminals, has not taken any concrete actions (e.g. sanctions)  against war criminal  Apartheid Israel, and refuses to say explicitly if it will act on ICC-issued  arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu  and Yoav Gallant (the fervently pro-Zionist Coalition rejects these warrants). Instead pro-Zionist state and Federal Labor Governments persecute pro-Palestinian human rights activists and threaten the free speech of all Australians by supporting Zionist-advanced  McCarthyist measures in the interests of Australia-violating Apartheid Israel. Re the Gaza Genocide inaction is complicity.

Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya [contact details].

*Professor Richard Hil and Dr Gideon Polya, “Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead”, Arena, 11 July 2025: https://arena.org.au/politics-of-counting-gazas-dead/ .

22 July 2025. “The unforgivable moral degeneracy of Labor over Gaza ”.  

For the past few months the Australian taxpayer-funded ABC reported daily on 2 major “stories”, devoting equal time to the Victorian mushroom murder trial (3 murdered) and the daily Zionist Israeli shooting of starving Palestinians seeking food (about 1,000 killed thus so far).

No doubt informed by electoral focus groups that ordinary Australians are utterly repulsed by the  daily mass murder of starving Palestinians, the Labor Government  has joined 24 other First World governments in demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and for Israel to lift aid restrictions.

Mere words are cheap and after 22 months of the Gaza Massacre the Gaza Genocide-complicit Australian Labor Government still refuses to take any of the concrete actions that Humanity demands, notably sanctions that were rightly applied to  Russia over its war criminal invasion of Ukraine.

The unforgivable moral degeneracy of Labor over Gaza  is exceeded by that of the fervently Zionist Coalition. Of 226 Federal MPs all but the Greens and a few like-minded humanitarians are utterly unfit for public life and public office.

By 25 April 2025 there were  680,000 Gaza deaths from violence and imposed deprivation (from data in The Lancet)* . Silence is complicity.  

Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya [contact details].

*Professor Richard Hil and Dr Gideon Polya, “Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead”, Arena, 11 July 2025: https://arena.org.au/politics-of-counting-gazas-dead/ .

21 July 2025. Apartheid Israeli and traitorous Zionist subversion and perversion of Australia - , inaction is complicity and silence is complicity.  

Treason is one of the very worst of crimes. 80 years ago the British arrested US-born German citizen William Joyce (aka Lord Haw Haw) who made broadcasts in English for Nazi Germany – he was tried and subsequently hung. With the exception of US-beholden Australian Intelligence and inquisitive historians, Australians are unaware that Australians were involved in 8 US-backed coups in our region, specifically in Laos (1960), Indonesia (1965), Cambodia (1970), Chile (1973), Australia (1975), Fiji (1987), Fiji (2000) and Australia (2010). Apartheid Israel and its traitorous Zionist agents were involved in the last 3 coups, supplying arms for the Fiji coups and betraying the Australia-first Rudd Labor Government  in the interests of Australia-violating Apartheid Israel and terracidal mining corporations. Today US-beholden Coalition and Labor traitors(?) demand horrifically expensive  militarization and long-term strategic subservience to America due to an asserted “China threat” whereas Malcolm Fraser called this “foreign policy folly” as did Paul Keating. Indeed  military strategy expert Professor Albert Palazzo in “The Big Fix. Rebuilding Australia’s national security” demands a rational Strategic Defensive position instead of promising to join  serial war criminal America in a war against distant China. Re treason, inaction is complicity and silence is complicity.

19 July 2025. PM’s weasel words over Gaza were in response to electoral threat.

Dear Editor,

PM Albanese commented in China on Gaza: “My government, has continued to support two states in the Middle East: the State of Israel and the State of Palestine. We want Israel to continue to exist within secure borders and to be able to live without the threat of terrorists…  atrocities we saw on October 7… Israel is losing support by its own actions… some of its actions are completely indefensible" (ABC).

Analysis: (1) Australia doesn’t recognize the State of Palestine; (2) “secure borders” means Apartheid Israel illegally occupying Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian lands; (3) 1,139 Israelis killed on 7/10/2023, many by the IDF, and  overwhelmingly  former or present IDF Occupiers; (4) Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation totalled 680,000 by 25 April 2025, mostly children (The Lancet)*; and (5) terrorism is as terrorism does.  

The PM’s weasel words were in response to electoral threat to Labor and the even worse Coalition from a huge body of decent Australians opposed to the Gaza Genocide. I was a rusted-on Labor voter, door-knocked for Whitlam, demonstrated daily against the Vietnam War, was an ALP member, 40-year trade unionist and a union official. I will put Gaza  Genocide-complicit Labor second last.

*Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, “Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead”, Arena, 11 July 2025: https://arena.org.au/politics-of-counting-gazas-dead/ .

18 July 2025, Comment sent to Crikey re article by Bernard Keane in Crikey.

Excellent article by Bernard Keane.  There are 3 major reasons why  the Labor Government should not have  any business dealings with Elbit, nor with Apartheid Israel:

(1). An Elbit missile was involved in the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom along with 6 of her colleagues in April 2024. One notes that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled Russia responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine because it provided the missile system involved (“Russia responsible for downing of MH17 over Ukraine, ECHR rules”, ABC News, 10 July 2025: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-10/russia-responsible-for-downing-of-mh17/105514598 ).

(2). According to Andrew Greene (ABC defence correspondent): “A confidential report has criticised the Defence Department following the removal of multi-billion-dollar Israeli-developed technology from army vehicles because of apparent security concerns. Earlier this year, a “cease use”  directive was issued on the "Battle Management System" (BMS) supplied by Elbit Systems, but the company has consistently denied its product poses any espionage risk. At the time the army began scrapping its high-tech BMS, military insiders told the ABC there were "definite concerns that the Israelis are backdooring the system for information" (see Andrew Greene, “Secret report criticises defence over scrapping of multi-billion-dollar Israeli technology by Australian army, ABC News, 4 September 2021: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-04/defence-criticised-confidential-report-elbit-military-project/100422476 ).

(3). Elbit as Apartheid Israel’s top weapons manufacturer has a massive complicity  in the Gaza Urbicide and Gaza Genocide – the near total-destruction of huge, ancient and culturally super-important Gaza, and the deaths of 680,000 Gazans from violence and imposed deprivation, this estimated to “include about 380,000 under-5-year-old infants, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men” as determined from data published in the leading medical journal The Lancet ( Professor Richard Hil and Dr Gideon Polya, “Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead”, Arena, 10 July 2025: https://arena.org.au/politics-of-counting-gazas-dead/ ).   

18 July 2025. Letter about Zionist-imposed anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against anti-racist Jews (the very best of Jews) and in defence of free speech in Australia against Zionist McCarthyism.

Despite Zionist-promoted “antisemitism hysteria”, Australians are made unaware  of Zionist anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against anti-racist Jews (the very best of Jews) and innocent Jewish children by massive lying by commission and lying by omission from Zionists, the  Zionist-perverted Coalition and Labor, and US-owned media: (1) anti-racist Jews are horribly falsely defamed as “self-hating Jews”, by similar canards, and by Zionist and pro-Zionist conflation of Apartheid Israel and its appalling genocidal crimes with all Jews; (2) the Zionist-perverted Mainstream politicians and US-owned media take their advice from genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Zionists, eschewing that from outstanding anti-racist Jewish scholars and writers (Google “Jews against racist Zionism”); (3) innocent Jewish children are brainwashed by taxpayer-subsidized Zionist teachers to support invasion, occupation, devastation and ethnic cleansing  of another country (intellectual child abuse); and (4) anti-racist Jewish and anti-racist non-Jewish Australians are seriously threatened by bipartisan adoption of the McCarthyist  Zionist Antisemitism Plan.

The key messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone” including Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Palestinians and anti-racist Jews. Decent Australians must reject the anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and traitorous Coalition and Labor Duopoly.

17 July 2025. “Voters: Labor and the Coalition are vilely anti-Semitic”(like all my overwhelmingly rejected Letters it will eventually be published here: “Australian Mainstream media lying and censorship”, Mainstream media lying:  https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/australian-mainstream-media-lying-censorshp ).

Antisemitism has 2 repugnant forms, (1) anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against 18 million mainly culturally Semitic Jews (most Jews are Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews like me who descend from non-Semitic Turkic Khazar converts to Judaism), and (2) anti-Arab anti-Semitism against 300 million ethnically and culturally Semitic Arabs and 2,000 million mainly culturally Semitic Muslims (aka Islamophobia).

The Australian Labor Government and the Coalition Opposition back the foisting of a free speech-threatening and McCarthyist Zionist “Plan to combat antisemitism” on all Australians and Australian institutions through forced adoption of the IHRA (International Holocaust  Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism that has been rejected by expert scholars and by over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations. “Antisemites” were once people who hated Jews but have become all people that Zionist Jews hate.  

Backed by Labor and the Coalition, Australia became a member country of the 35-member, all-European and genocide-complicit IHRA that is anti- Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic (by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim critics of genocidal  Apartheid Israel as asserted “antisemites”) and holocaust-denying (by ignoring 6 horrific WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust). Voters: Labor and the Coalition are vilely anti-Semitic, both anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic.

15 July 2025. “The Coalition and Labor approving  Zionist McCarthyism”.  Like all my overwhelmingly rejected Letters it will eventually be published here: “Australian Mainstream media lying and censorship”, Mainstream media lying:  https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/australian-mainstream-media-lying-censorshp ,

My father was a scholarly Jewish refugee from fascist Hungary. The first songs in primary school were “God save the King” and an  anti-Jewish song “Balls to Mr Finkelstein”. I first discovered the fate of my Jewish relatives when I asked my parents about the 4-digit tattoo on the arm of a family friend. However as a patriotic Australian child I was disbelieving when my father said that it could happen in Australia. It has begun, with the Coalition and Labor approving  Zionist McCarthyism to be foisted on all Australians including anti-racist Jewish Australians by fanatics with a fervent loyalty to Australia-violating  Apartheid Israel.

I was always well aware of racism including anti-Jewish anti-Semitism in Australia. Indeed in 1963 I and my Black girl friend (later my wife for 52 years) were refused entry by a Hobart trolley driver (however the passengers indignantly forced him to take us). My non-Jewish Queensland relatives totally ignored us. An anti-racist and anti-apartheid Jewish Australian, I have been damagingly defamed by Zionists for 15 years. This year I was the only one not invited to an important family anniversary function. Will Australians support anti-racist decency like the Hobart trolley passengers?

14 July 2025. Response to “A city grapples with weekly protests and antisemitism” (The Age, Melbourne, 13/7/2025).

Dear Editor.

The article “A city grapples with weekly protests and antisemitism” (The Age, Melbourne, 13/7/2025) falsely connects asserted anti-Jewish anti-Semitism with protests over the horrific and ongoing Gaza Genocide*. Indeed a Jewish Zionist is quoted saying: “It became very obvious, very quickly, to the Jewish community that this [protest movement] was not really about Israel. This was about Jews”.

This false conflation echoes the Zionist-perverted Coalition and Labor and is belied by the facts: (1) many anti-racist Jewish Australians, including me, are present at these non-violent protests, (2) their presence is noted and warmly applauded at the rallies that often have Jewish speakers, and (3) their anti-racism, anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian rights stance is mirrored by numerous Australian Jews (some eminent and world famous), by numerous eminent anti-racist Jews world-wide from Hannah Arendt and anti-apartheid Nobel Laureates like Nadine Gordimer to Howard Zinn (Google “Jews against racist Zionism”) and by numerous anti-racist non-Jews, notably anti-apartheid Nobel Laureates Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu  (Google “Non-Jews against racism Zionism”).

Anti-racist Jews  such as myself are inescapably bound by the key Jewish Holocaust messages of “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”.

Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya [contact details]

*Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, “Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead”, Arena, 11 July 2025: https://arena.org.au/politics-of-counting-gazas-dead/ .  

12 July 2025. The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been condemned  by scholars around the world and by over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations.

 As a concerned, genocide- impacted,  anti -Jewish anti-Semitism-impacted and anti-racist Jewish Australian I have carefully read the divisive and appalling “Plan to combat antisemitism” that in essence seeks to impose on all Australians but particularly students, teachers, academics,  scholars, journalists and commentators the false and dangerous definition  of “antisemitism” from the all-European International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) of which Australia is disgracefully a member.

The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been condemned  by scholars around the world and by over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations. It has been widely used to stifle criticism  of genocidally racist  Apartheid Israel and was successful in removing Jeremy Corbyn,  the most anti-racist UK Labour leader ever.

Astonishingly the Plan fails to mention any of numerous matters exciting anti-Israel sentiment, notably Israeli Apartheid and nuclear terrorism, the century-long Palestinian Genocide and the ongoing Gaza Genocide. The Plan if adopted will further  divide Australians  between those opposing  genocide  and the unforgivable others, and has been condemned by the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia and eminent human rights lawyer Greg Barnes SC as an American-style Trumpist threat to the free speech that is vital for scholarly inquiry and for Australia as an informed democracy.

11 July 2025. The dangerous Zionist “Plan to combat antisemitism” has been endorsed by Zionist groups and is likely to be substantially endorsed by the Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor Government and Coalition Opposition.

The dangerous Zionist “Plan to combat antisemitism” has been endorsed by Zionist groups and is likely to be substantially endorsed by the Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor Government and Coalition Opposition who fervently support Australia-violating Apartheid Israel. However the Plan has been condemned by the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia and eminent human rights lawyer Greg Barnes SC as an American-style “Trumpian” threat to the free speech that is vital for scholarly inquiry and for Australia as an informed democracy.

As an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and prolific humanitarian writer I have been  subject to sustained Zionist defamation over 2 decades. There is already considerable prosecution of  anti-racist humanitarians supporting Palestinian human rights. Last week I received expert legal advice that I should very likely be safe as a scholar and former academic but that all other Australians should beware. However under the Plan students, scholars and academics as well as journalists are singled out for censorship.  

Adoption of the Plan by the Zionist-perverted Labor Government may well mean persecution of me and  banning of my tenth huge book, “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation And Palestinian Genocide” – real anti-Jewish anti-Semitism.  

10 July 2025. Zionist-perverted Mainstream Australia is complicit in the Gaza Genocide. Inaction is complicity. Silence is complicity.  

As a genocide-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian scholar with a sole national allegiance to the land of my birth, Australia, I am inescapably bound by the key moral imperatives from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, specifically “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness“ and “never again to anyone” (this including the horrifically maltreated Indigenous Australians and Indigenous Palestinians). However these key injunctions are grossly violated by a US lackey, Zionist-perverted, Orwellian and racist Mainstream Australia, most notoriously by the Apartheid Israel-supporting Labor Government, Coalition Opposition, ABC and US-owned media.  

These fervent supporters of genocidally racist Zionism resolutely ignore the sane and humane advice of eminent anti-racist Jews (notably world famous scholars and the Jewish Council of Australia; Google “Jews against racist Zionism”) and  have sought to hide the utter horror of  the Gaza Genocide (mass murder of children, mothers, women and men) with a massive, false, free speech- and civil liberties- threatening, racist  and indeed anti-Jewish and anti-Arab anti-Semitic campaign about asserted “antisemitism” in Australia informed by fanatical and mendacious supporters of a genocidal foreign country, Australia-violating Apartheid Israel. Zionist-perverted Mainstream Australia is complicit in the Gaza Genocide. Inaction is complicity. Silence is complicity.  

9 July 2025. Anti-Arab anti-Semitism against 300 million ethnically and culturally Semitic Arabs and 2,000 million mainly culturally Semitic Muslims (aka Islamophobia), and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against 18 million mostly culturally  Semitic Jews.

Anti-Semitism  occurs in 2 repugnant forms, anti-Arab anti-Semitism against 300 million ethnically and culturally Semitic Arabs and 2,000 million mainly culturally Semitic Muslims (aka Islamophobia), and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against 18 million mostly culturally  Semitic Jews (most Jews are ethnically non-Semitic Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews like me who descend from non-Semitic Turkic Khazar converts to Judaism in the 9th century CE).

Outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (NYU) (2004): “The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis”. In Palestine  Zionism  involves genocidal racism, egregious mendacity, theft of land, property and country, repeated mass ethnic cleansing (1948, 1967 and 2023-2025) and unforgivable mass murder in the ongoing Gaza Genocide.  

In the absence of any concrete evidence as to motive, the Zionist-perverted Labor Government and Coalition Opposition have ascribed recent deplorable but fortunately victim-less attacks on property in Melbourne to asserted “anti-Semitism”, effectively adopt war criminal Netanyahu’s  false dictum that “Anti-Israel sentiment is anti-Semitic” and exhibit unforgivable and all-too-real anti-Semitism by variously defaming and threatening the free speech of anti-racist Jews and Arabs opposed to the horrific  crimes of Apartheid Israel.

7 July 2025. The ongoing Gaza Genocide involving  680,000 Gaza deaths from violence, 136,000, and imposed deprivation, 544,000, by 25 April 2025.

Three utterly deplorable but fortunately victimless events in Melbourne – scorching of a synagogue door, disruption of an Israeli-owned restaurant, defacement and arson at a business supplying parts for warplanes bombing Gaza -  have all been immediately described in the absence of concrete evidence as “antisemitic” by the fervent pro-Zionists – the  Labor Government, Coalition Opposition,  Mainstream media, the taxpayer-funded  ABC and the fanatical Apartheid Israel Lobby.

These fervent pro-Zionists echo the sentiments of  Netanyahu, the PM of endlessly Australia-violating Apartheid Israel, who falsely declares that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitic”, wants stronger Australian government action, and is the subject of arrest warrants from the ICC  over the ongoing Gaza Genocide involving  680,000 Gaza deaths from violence, 136,000, and imposed deprivation, 544,000, by 25 April 2025 (from data in the leading medical journal The Lancet).

The qualification of “alleged” is absent from the pro-Zionist antisemitism hysteria. Ignored is the real anti-Semitism of the pro-Zionists, notably  (1) false defamation of anti-racist Jews, notably by false conflation of the crimes of Apartheid Israel with all Jews, (2) complicity in the mass murder of Semitic Palestinians by mostly non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jewish Israelis, and (3) unforgivable racist Zionist brainwashing of innocent Jewish children.

27 June 2025. “Australia must reject Trump’s call for the removal of Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish Australians say NO to ethnic cleansing”.

The term “antisemitism” legitimately covers a wide range of crimes from verbal or written abuse to mass murder of Jews. However as is now apparent to most people, Zionists routinely and falsely debase the term in applying it to humane critics of a grossly human rights-violating Apartheid Israel. Thus, for just one out of numerous examples, only the  Greens and several likeminded Federal MPs have demanded immediate concrete action to stop the appalling Zionist Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide, a position strongly supported by the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia and by over 500 anti-racist Jewish Australians who signed on to a full page newspaper advertisement stating “Australia must reject Trump’s call for the removal of Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish Australians say NO to ethnic cleansing” (The Age 25/2/2025). However the Greens, including their many anti-racist Jewish supporters, have been falsely accused of knowingly and intentionally fuelling antisemitism. Indeed Labor and the Coalition routinely falsely defame anti-racist Jews by falsely conflating Apartheid Israel with all Jews. Anti-racist Jews are the very best of Jews but in Australia they are subject to egregiously false defamation – real and damaging  anti-Jewish anti-Semitism that should shame Australia. Silence is complicity.

5 July 2025. One estimates Gaza deaths of 479,000 children, 63,000 women and 138,000 men. This unforgivable crime is ignored by the Gaza Genocide-complicit US, UK and Australia.

The UNHCR Geneva Declaration Secretariat’s “Global burden of armed violence” reported on deaths in numerous wars thus: “The burden of indirect deaths was between three and 15 times the number of direct deaths… A reasonable average estimate would be a ratio of four indirect deaths [per direct death]”.

My book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” estimated a ratio of 1 (Iraq War) and 16 (Afghan War). However Western Mainstream media presently report 56,000 violent Gaza deaths and ignore the horrific number of Gaza deaths from violence and imposed deprivation.

From data published by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet, by 25 April 2025 Gaza violent deaths totalled 136,000, this indicating  deaths from imposed deprivation of 136,000 x 4 = 544,000 for a total of 680,000 deaths or 28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million.

70% of avoidable deaths in impoverished  countries are of highly vulnerable under-5 year old infants, this implying 380,000 such infant deaths from deprivation in Gaza. Indeed one estimates Gaza deaths of 479,000 children, 63,000 women and 138,000 men. This unforgivable crime is ignored by the Gaza Genocide-complicit US, UK and Australia. Silence is complicity.

PS. For details and exhaustive documentation see Gideon Polya, “0.7 Million Gaza Genocide Deaths Demand End Killing & Human Rights Denial NOW”, Countercurrents, 29 June 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/06/0-7-million-gaza-genocide-deaths-demand-end-killing-human-rights-denial-now/ .

2 July 2025. Expert epidemiologist-assessed 680,000 Gaza deaths (28% of the pre-war Gaza population) from violence, 136,000, and imposed deprivation, 544,000, by 25 April 2025.

You wouldn’t know this from the taxpayer-funded but Israel- and Zionist-subverted ABC, but the 3 fundamental issues re the ongoing Gaza Genocide are (1) expert epidemiologist-assessed 680,000 Gaza deaths (28% of the pre-war Gaza population) from violence, 136,000, and imposed deprivation, 544,000, by 25 April 2025, whereas the Mainstream falsely claims “only” 55,000; (2) Occupied Palestinian  exclusion  from all human rights including the right to life – utterly ignored in the West in which the blanket issue is alleged “verbal antisemitism” that is used to variously threaten, silence and sack critics of genocidally racist Zionism; and (3) peaceful Boycotts, Divestment  and Sanctions  (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all its supporters (akin to those successfully  applied to Apartheid South Africa) if the killing and human rights denial don’t stop NOW. All praise to courageous, anti-racist and truth-telling Australian journalists, notably Mary Kostakidis and Antoinette Lattouf.

26 June 2025. Apartheid Israel has an intolerable record of  harming Australia, Australians, Australian institutions. “Greg Barns SC (former National President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance): “Journalist and broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf’s win over the ABC in the Federal Court is a significant victory for freedom of expression.” It raises some key issues for Australian sovereignty, human rights and democracy: (1) The taxpayer-funded ABC has spent over $1 million of taxpayer money defending the unlawful ABC dismissal of truth-telling Antoinette Lattouf; (2) the Israel Lobby that influenced the ABC actions fervently supports the foreign state of Apartheid Israel that has an intolerable record of  harming Australia, Australians, Australian institutions (universities, media and parliaments), Australia’s reputation, and free speech that is crucial for an informed democracy in Australia; (3) Apartheid Israel and its fanatical supporters violate the spirit of the Australian Constitution, Foreign Interference Legislation and  the core Truth and Kindness ethos of Humanity (e.g. thou shalt not steal, lie and kill children, mothers and women as is happening in the Zionist Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide); and (4) US-beholden Mainstream Australian politicians (except for the Greens and like-minded folk) and US-owned media are falsely defaming anti-racist Jews critical of Apartheid Israel by falsely conflating Apartheid Israel with all Jews (intolerable and unforgivable anti-Jewish anti-Semitism).”

24 June 2025. Australian Labor Government, Coalition Opposition and Australia unforgivably ignore horrific “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google it) in Australia-backed post-WW2 US wars and the Gaza Genocide. “The  Zionist-,  Israeli- and US-beholden Australian Labor Government (a) has finally joined the racist Coalition Opposition in supporting the unprovoked, International Law-violating, and war criminal Israeli and US bombing of Iran, (b) has effectively admitted Australian complicity by refusing to comment on the role of Australia’s Pine Gap electronic spying base, (c) refuses to condemn and take concrete action against US-backed Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Gaza Genocide, (d) ignores demands that it order Israel not to injure, traumatize or kill Australian citizens or their family members on pain of draconian diplomatic and financial sanctions, and (e) unforgivably ignores horrific “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google it) in Australia-backed post-WW2 US wars, notably (deaths in brackets) US Asian wars (40 million), Indochina War (15 million), Afghan War (7 million), Iraq War (5 million), and the Gaza Genocide (0.7 million so far and mostly children, from data published in the leading medical journal The Lancet and effectively publicly confirmed by the National Security Agency (NSA)-advised President Trump). War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate. Silence is complicity. Decent anti-racist Australians will put Labor and the Coalition last in Australia’s excellent preferential voting system.”

23 June 2025. Liberal-Labor Australia supports US and Israeli bombing of Iran and US-armed and US-backed Israel’s Gaza Genocide and devastation of  impoverished Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.  “Article 2(4) of the UN Charter: “Prohibition of Force: Members must refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the UN’s purposes” yet Liberal-Labor Australia supports US and Israeli bombing of Iran and US-armed and US-backed Israel’s Gaza Genocide and devastation of  impoverished Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.

Article 51: “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security”, yet  Liberal-Labor Australia while rightly supporting Ukraine’s right to self-defence rejects that right for devastated Iran, Syria, Lebanon,  Yemen and Occupied Palestine presently being bombed with Australian complicity via arms, diplomacy and Pine Gap.  

The US, Liberal-Labor Australia and all-European NATO disingenuously cite the “rules-based order” in dangerous warmongering over China and disputed uninhabited  atolls in the South China Sea – a re-purposed, racist, mendacious, White is Right new White Australia Policy that will be rejected at the ballot box by the non-European 25% of Australian voters.*

 *Gideon Polya, “Anti-Asian Racism Entrenched In Newly-elected Gaza Genocide-Complicit Australian Labor Government”, Countercurrents, 21 May 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/05/anti-asian-racism-entrenched-in-newly-elected-gaza-genocide-complicit-australian-labor-government/ .

20 June 2025. Liberal-Labor Australia supports US and Israeli bombing of Iran and US-armed and US-backed Israel’s Gaza Genocide and devastation of  impoverished Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. “The nuclear weapons possessing, hosting  or use-endorsing G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US) falsely declared: “We, the leaders of the G7, reiterate our commitment to peace and stability in the Middle East. In this context, we affirm that Israel has a right to defend itself. We reiterate our support for the security of Israel. Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror… Iran can never have a nuclear weapon”. The mendacious Australian Labor Government, Coalition, taxpayer-funded ABC and US-owned Australian Mainstream media  falsely agree with the G7 but reality is otherwise: (1) the US-backed Israeli attack is unprovoked and violates International Law, (2) Israel has 90 nuclear weapons but Iran has none, (3) Iran is a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but Israel  isn’t, (4) for 50 years Iran, other Muslim countries and the UN General Assembly have demanded a nuclear-free Middle East, (5) Iran has invaded no country for millennia but  Israel bombed 5 countries in 2025 and has attacked 14 in 77 years, and (6) if Iran did have nuclear weapons it wouldn’t bomb Israel (50% of Israel’s Subjects are Indigenous Palestinians) nor commit suicide by bombing the West.”

PS.  Can Art succeed when words and numbers fail? See my huge multicultural painting “Isfahan Matisse”  for Iran-West amity:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/4290121654/ .

17 June 2025. The Labor Government and the Coalition have made Australia complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. “The Melbourne-founded and 2017 Nobel Peace Prize recipient ICAN (International  Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute  (SIPRI), the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), the Arms Control Association (ACA) and numerous other informed experts advise that “Israel has 90 nuclear weapons” (Google the phrase). However in its massive coverage of the unprovoked attack on nuke-free Iran by US-backed, US-supplied and nuclear-armed Israel the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting  Corporation (ABC) simply won’t report this in a deadly further example of lying by omission by  the Zionist- and US-perverted ABC. The mendacious and Australia-betraying ABC  unforgivably takes its cue  from the Labor Government, the Coalition Opposition and US-owned Australian Mainstream media that lie by commission and omission in the interests of International Law- violating and Australia--violating Apartheid Israel. Thus the Labor Government and the Coalition have made Australia complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Silence is complicity.”

15 June 2025. The Australian Labor Government rightly imposed sanctions on Russia over its illegal invasion of Ukraine but won’t act  over illegal Israeli invasions of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen. “The Australian Labor Government rightly imposed sanctions on Russia over its illegal invasion of Ukraine but won’t act  over illegal Israeli invasions of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen. The only concrete action Labor has taken has been to impose sanctions on just  2 Israeli MPs for encouraging violent oppression of Occupied Palestinians in the West Bank. In response to the unprovoked Israeli bombing of Iran, Labor  backed Israel, stating: “Australia is alarmed by the escalation between Israel and Iran… We all understand the need, the threat of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program”. US- and Israel-subservient Labor ignores the stark reality that Iran does not have or want nuclear weapons whereas according to 2017 Nobel Peace Prize recipient ICAN nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel has 90. Apartheid South Africa gave up its Israeli-assisted nuclear weapons capacity by 1993 and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel must be forced to do likewise. Both Labor and the Coalition unforgivably back nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel, hosting US nuclear weapons-carrying warplanes and warships in Australia, rejecting the anti-nuclear-weapons TPNW, complicity in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways (0.7 million deaths from violence and deprivation), and lying for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. “

14 June 2025. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism. In the last year alone Australia- and US-backed Israel has bombed 5 countries, namely Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.  In the last 77 years Israel has invaded the territory of 14 countries, namely Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, the US and Yemen. The core ethos of decent Humanity is Kindness and Truth but under both Labor and Coalition Governments Australia is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel and, like Zionist-perverted America,  rejected the annual UN General Assembly anti-Nazism Resolution. Half of Israel’s Subjects are Indigenous Palestinians  and of them about three quarters have had no human rights for 57 years  under highly abusive Zionist Israeli  military rule and cannot vote for the government ruling them (Apartheid). Those ignoring or denying these horrific realities are liars.  All those supporting genocidally  racist, egregiously mendacious, endlessly thieving and mother- and child-killing Apartheid Israel and hence the evil crime of  genocidal Apartheid have crossed the line  between decent Humanity and the utterly unspeakable and unforgivable.

13 June 2025. Coalition and Labor falsely say that Israel is a democracy. The Zionist-instructed Coalition and Labor falsely assert that Israel is a democracy. Before 7/10/2023 Israel had a total of about 15.1 million Subjects of whom 7.7 million or 51% were Indigenous Palestinians. These Indigenous Palestinian Subjects included  5.6 million Occupied  Palestinians (subjugated under military rule, denied human rights and excluded from voting for the government ruling them) and 2.1 million Israeli Palestinians (only able to vote for approved candidates and subject to 65 race-based discriminatory laws). In addition there  are about 7 million Exiled Palestinians forbidden to step foot in the land continuously inhabited by their forbears for millennia. From data published in The Lancet one can estimate that Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation in the last 20 months total about 0.7 million (NSA-advised Trump has given similar estimates that exceed Mainstream media reports of 50,000 violent Gaza deaths by about 10-fold). Indigenous Palestinians now represent 49% of the Subjects of Israel. Israel is not a  democracy. The Coalition and Labor are unforgivably complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for an Apartheid Israel in 35 ways.

12  June 2022. An anti-Semitic Labor falsely  defames anti-racist Jews. PM Albanese (National Press Club): “Our vision is for a society that is a microcosm for the world where all are respected and valued and our diversity is recognised as a strength”. Awful reality: (1) Europeans and non-Europeans are 76% and 24%, respectively, of the Australian population but  represent 94.9% and 5.1%, respectively, of the senior leadership  of  Australian organizations (2016). (2) Europeans, non-Europeans and Asians represent 74.7%, 25.3% and 17.4% of the Australian population, respectively, but are 90.5%,  9.5% and 2.4%, respectively, of the new Labor Government Ministry. (3). Labor ignores crucial advice from patriotic anti-racist Jewish Australians (many eminent and some world-famous) and instead defames them,  slavishly pandering  to mendacious,  traitorous  and self-described “Jewish” Zionist fanatics who fervently support Australia-violating and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel. (4).  Under Labor Australia contemptibly and distressingly voted No to the annual UNGA Anti-Nazism Resolution. (5). Labor fervently supports the IHRA that is anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic (by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Arab and Muslim critics of Apartheid Israel as “anti-Semitic”) and holocaust-denying (by ignoring all WW2 holocausts  except for the WW2 Jewish Holocaust). (6). An anti-Semitic Labor falsely  defames anti-racist Jews by conflating genocidal Apartheid Israel with all Jews.

11 June 2025. Australian PM Albanese’s National Press Club address was appalling. PM Albanese’s National Press Club address was appalling:

“To stand up for Australia”: Labor won’t act over  Palestinian Australians and thousands of their relatives being robbed, traumatized, starved, injured and killed  by Australia-violating Apartheid Israel.

“Australians rejected nuclear power” but not $368 billion for nuclear-powered submarines that make Australia a prime nuclear target.

“Action on climate change”: anti-science Labor has approved 26 new gas and coal  projects (IEA: “No new gas and coal projects”) .

“Australians voted against importing conflicts and ideologies that have no basis in our national culture or character”: dishonestly used by Zionist-perverted Labor to condemn anti-racist Jewish, non-Jewish, Arab and Muslim Australians demanding full human rights for Indigenous Palestinians and cessation of the Gaza Genocide, Apartheid and the illegal Occupation.

“Trusting in our national values”:  Labor supported  all 1950 onwards US Asian wars (except for the Vietnam and Iraq wars, and involving 40 million Asian deaths), is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways.

Asked about 2 recent Indigenous deaths in custody the PM rejected action (ignoring Indigenous protests) and won’t act over the Gaza Genocide (over 680,000 Indigenous Palestinians dead from violence and imposed deprivation).    

8 June 2025. Israel excludes 73% of its Indigenous Subjects from voting. The Human Rights Law Centre: “The Australian Government is obligated under international law to do all that is necessary and reasonable to bring an end to Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation and blocking of humanitarian aid… Immediately cease military cooperation with Israel by way of a two way arms embargo, with the effect of halting the transfer of military aid, components and intelligence; cease all other financial, trade, investment and economic relations with Israel that sustain its unlawful actions;  impose sanctions on officials who have promoted or incited Israel’s unlawful actions;  robustly investigate anyone in Australia who may be responsible for international crimes, including those participating in military activities in Gaza; and  uphold and unequivocally support international justice mechanisms… Anything short of this risks complicity by Australia in Israel’s unfolding international crimes, as well as breaches of Australia’s own responsibilities under international law.” The Australian Labor Government won’t act, is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, including stating “The idea that a democratic state withholds supply is an outrage”. Israel isn’t democratic – an Apartheid Israel excludes 73% of its Indigenous Subjects from voting.

6 June 2025. Australia’s complicity in the Gaza Genocide.  It is now 20 months since the Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp on 7 October 2023. Of the 1,139 Israelis killed, 97.5% were adults and overwhelmingly involved as present or former soldiers in the 57 year Occupation, with perhaps  half (570) killed by the high-explosive  firepower of the belatedly responding IDF. From data published by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet it is estimated that by 25 April 2025 (i.e. after 15.5 months) Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation totalled 680,000 (mostly children). Yet Mainstream Western and Australian media (with the laudable exceptions of The Guardian, Pearls & Irritations and the Tasmanian Times) only report about 50,000 deaths from violence, ignoring  horrific deaths from imposed deprivation that are revealed by simply Googling the phrase “deaths from violence and imposed deprivation”.  Journalists (notably the taxpayer-funded SBS and ABC journalists) are obliged to report truthfully about genocide and to respect the courageous  reportage of their martyred fellow journalists in Gaza where “journalists killed per year per million of population” is 70 versus 0.008 (the World). Australia’s complicity in the Gaza Genocide must follow the Jeremy Corbyn-proposed inquiry into UK complicity. Silence is complicity.

4 June 2025. An  Australia-China peace pact now! The US has told Australia to cripple hospitals and increase defence spending to 3.5% of GDP to meet the US-asserted “threat” from China. A scientist, I follow Lord Kelvin’s famous advice to argue by the numbers. I have accordingly analyzed militarization by Israel, Australia and China in 10 key areas on a per capita basis*. Thus for example (1) Military expenditure in “US$ billions per million of population” is 2.46 (Israel), 1.02 (Australia) and 0.15 (China), and (2) Frontline forces per million of population” is 23,188 (Israel), 2,275 (Australia) and 1,621 (China). Fervently Labor- and Coalition-backed but Australia-violating Israel is presently bombing Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, assisted by Australian diplomacy, arms trade and intelligence, and has militarily  attacked 13 countries over the last 77 years. Presently China is only invading some uninhabited coral atolls in the South China Sea. Indeed, border spats aside, China has only invaded and incorporated 2 major territories in the last 800 years, namely Tibet and Xinjiang (while England was conquering Gaelic Britain and much of the world). Meanwhile US lackey Australia looks the other way, driven by the Orwellian injunction “2 plus 2 does not equal 4”. An  Australia-China peace pact now!

*Gideon Polya,. “Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide”, Countercurrents, 16 May 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/apartheid-israel-among-worlds-leading-countries-for-militarization-violence-abuse-and-genocide/ .

26 May 2025 (to Crikey). An excellent, humane article by Bernard Keane [in Crikey] re Australian voter indifference to the Gaza Genocide. The Greens, Senator Lidia Thorpe and Senator Fatima Payman spoke out passionately about the utterly unforgivable, ongoing mass murder of children, mothers and women in Gaza by US-backed Zionist Israelis. However this fundamental moral issue of the century, the Gaza Genocide, was absent from the campaigns of other participants and was not mentioned in the post-election Labor analysis at the National Press Club. Data published by expert epidemiologists in the leading  medical journal The Lancet indicated 136,000 violent (direct) Gaza deaths by 25 April 2025 and 4 times that number (544,000) of indirect deaths from imposed deprivation. Indeed Trump estimated  only 1.7 million Gazans left (out of the pre-war 2.4 million Gazan population) to be removed from Gaza to enable his Israeli-backed Riviera scheme. Australia’s compulsory and preferential  voting  meant that Labor was returned handsomely by the second preferences of the Greens and disillusioned Liberal voters shifting to Labor. Overall it seems that at least 85% of Australian voters ignored the Gaza Genocide, and compulsory voting means that they made themselves complicit in this atrocity. Unlike the UK, France and Canada, the Labor Government won’t even threaten sanctions. Thou shalt not kill children. Inaction is complicity. Silence is complicity.

23 May 2025. Labor will not even threaten to sanction Israel. On 5 February 2025 when asked how many Palestinians he would displace from Gaza, Trump stated: “All of them. Probably 1.7 million people or maybe 1.8 million" (i.e. only 1.7 million left alive of the pre-war 2.4 million Gazans). On 21 May 2025 Netanyahu stated: “[Israel] is ready to end the war, under clear conditions that will ensure the safety of Israel… Gaza is totally disarmed, and we carry out the Trump plan. A plan that is so correct and so revolutionary.” US-backed Apartheid Israel is doing genocide and planning more genocide as defined by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and as acknowledged by Professor Stuart Rees (founder of the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Jewish Council of Australia, and numerous other eminent humanitarians. While the UK, France and Canada recently threatened Apartheid Israel with “concrete actions” and “sanctions”,  the cowardly, Zionist-perverted, US lackey and unforgivable Australian Labor Government is morally blind (indeed “eyeless in Gaza”) - Labor will not even threaten to sanction Israel over its Geneva Convention-violating traumatizing, wounding, starving and killing of Gazan children, women and men. Silence is complicity.  

22 May 2025. Labor is too cowardly to take action over starving Gaza . The leaders of the UK, France and Canada: “We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable… If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response. We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank… We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions.” In contrast,  Australia joined 23 other countries in stating “The population faces starvation… Humanitarian aid should never be politicised, and Palestinian territory must not be reduced nor subjected to any demographic change” but indicated no concrete action. The Australian Labor Government rightly emplaced sanctions over the war criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine but Labor is too cowardly to take action over starving Gaza while the Zionist Israelis are traumatizing, injuring, starving and killing the children and women of Gaza with impunity. Why? In May 2010 popularly-elected Labor PM Kevin Rudd followed the UK in apologetically expelling an Israeli diplomat over the Zionist Israeli forging of passports – in June 2010 he was dismissed in an overnight coup.

14 May 2025. Racist White Australia (76% White, 24% non-White): Whites (90.5%) versus non-Whites (9.5%) in Australia’s New Labor Government Ministry.  “Victorious Labor’s faction-based axing of accomplished senior ministers Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic was a witless Labor rejection of diversity. The important “Leading for Change” analysis (2018) argued that “Our national success and prosperity depends on us getting the most from our multicultural talents” but  showed that while Europeans and non-Europeans were 76% and 24%, respectively, of the Australian population, they represented 94.9% and 5.1%, respectively, of the senior leadership  of  Australian organizations and institutions. Similarly, in 2025 the Europeans (20) and non-Europeans (3) are 87.0% and 13.0%, respectively of the 23-member Cabinet of the new  Labor Government. Indeed if one includes the Outer Ministry (7) and Assistant  Ministers (12),  the Europeans (38) and non-Europeans (now 4) are 90.5% and 9.5%, respectively, of the 42 member Ministry. Faction-ridden, neoliberal and US lackey Labor has failed in its first task. As if Labor’s unforgivable  complicity  in the ongoing Gaza Genocide were not enough, it has now effectively resurrected Labor Minister Arthur Calwell’s obscene inequality “Two Wongs don’t make a White”. French advice: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose - the more it changes, the more it's the same thing.”

9 May 2025. Mainstream Australian media and politicians: Those supporting Apartheid Israel and hence the vile crime of Apartheid are utterly unfit for public life and public office. “The Age (7/5/2025) incorrectly asserted that the Greens had suffered a “devastating verdict from voters” and falsely described the Greens accusation that  both Labor and Coalition were “complicit in genocide” as “hyperbolic and offensive”. Reality: (1) Labor (34.7% of the primary vote) was re-elected to government in a landslide by overwhelmingly securing the second preferences of the Greens (11.7% of the vote). (2) In the Senate race the Greens had a record 14% of the vote and have 11 Senators  that with Labor’s 28 and Australia’s Voice’s 1 constitute 53% of the 76 Senators. (3) The Greens, Socialists and Australia’s Voice were the only parties to demand an immediate end to the grossly human rights-violating Occupation and the horrific Gaza Genocide (expert epidemiologists: by 25 April 2025 about 136,000 direct deaths and 544,000 deaths from imposed deprivation, mostly children) and the only parties that anti-racist Jewish voters like me could vote for. (4) The Zionist-perverted Labor and Coalition were complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Those supporting Apartheid Israel and hence the vile crime of Apartheid are utterly unfit for public life and public office (cc MPs).”  

8 May 2025. There are  2 kinds of people, those who object to apartheid, genocide and the mass murder of children and mothers and those who don’t.  “Shame is endlessly corrosive as brilliantly articulated in Salman Rushdie’s novel of the same name. Australia has a world’s best compulsory and preferential electoral system but this is only respectable to the extent that voters are properly informed. However in the 2025 Australian Federal Elections the utterly horrifying Gaza Genocide was resolutely ignored by all parties except for the Greens and like-minded humane candidates. Pro-Apartheid Israel means pro-apartheid. Compulsory voting means that 85% of Australian voters ignored the Gaza Genocide as did a similar proportion of elected MPs. They have cursed themselves with endless shame. There are 2 kinds of people, those who object to apartheid, genocide and the mass murder of children and mothers and those who don’t. “

6 May 2025. Labor wins Australian Federal Elections: Cowardly, mendacious and  Zionist-perverted Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways. “Federal election realities largely ignored by Mainstream media and politicians: (1). The election result  was a huge victory for the Greens’ “keep Dutton out” policy (nearly all Labor MPs were elected by Greens’ preferences). (2). The  Greens were victims of their own success in losing seats to Labor  (many Liberal voters switched to Labor). (3). Despite the “Vote for Humanity” urgings from  eminent Australian humanitarians such as Professor Stuart Rees (founder of the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize), truth-telling journalists like famed Mary Kostakidis, the Medical Association for the Prevention of War,  the Greens, Socialists, the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia and a solid body of anti-racist Jews, non-Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims, the Gaza Genocide was almost totally ignored in the 2025 Australian Federal Elections and its aftermath. (4).  By 25 April 2025 violent deaths in the Gaza Genocide totalled 136,000 and non-violent deaths from imposed deprivation totalled 4 times that number (The Lancet) i.e. 680,000 in all, mostly women and children, and 28% of the pre-war Gaza population (indeed Trump assertions implied 0.6 million deaths). Cowardly, mendacious and  Zionist-perverted Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways  and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways.”

1 May 2025. The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today and Zionist-inspired attack on Australian free speech. “A Melbourne Palestinian Australian businessman Hash Tayeh had one of his businesses fire-bombed, his home firebombed, and threats made against his family. The Guardian (29/4/2025): “In March, police charged Tayeh with four counts of “using insulting words in public” for allegedly uttering the phrase “All Zionists are terrorists” during a rally in May last year” and that 2 further pro-human rights protesters are facing similar charges. As a Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist, writer and humanitarian with a sole national allegiance to Australia, I am inescapably obliged to object to this Zionist-inspired attack on Australian free speech. Zionism is a genocidally racist political ideology in awful theory and genocidal practice. Indeed Zionism is Nazism without gas chambers but with genocidal racism, world-leading high technology military, 90 nuclear weapons, mass murder of Occupied Palestinian children, mothers and women in Gaza, and wanting Arab lands from the Nile to the Euphrates but not the Indigenous Arab inhabitants. Anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (NYU) (2004): “The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis” (for like anti-racist Jewish opinion Google "Jews against racist Zionism").”

29 April 2025. Unlike the Greens, the Coalition and Labor unforgivably ignore the Gaza Genocide and expertly-attested realities threatening Climate Genocide. “The Coalition and Labor dishonestly claim to support “zero net emissions by 2050” but  both support huge increases in Australia’s already massive Exported greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution (Australia with 0.3% of the world’s population has annual Exported  GHG emissions that are 5.4% of the world’s total). Labor wants 82% renewable electricity by 2030, but the climate criminal Coalition aims to cripple renewable energy uptake, and for electricity in 2040 being largely generated by coal, gas (that can be dirtier GHG-wise than coal depending on the rate of systemic gas leakage) and nuclear (that is uneconomic, non-renewable and hugely CO2 emitting overall). Science-trained Pope Francis, Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor James Hansen, Professor Stephen Hawking and the IMF all demand a full-cost  carbon tax on polluters. The damage-related  carbon price is $200 per tonne CO2 (Columbia, Cambridge) but the IMF estimates a global average applied carbon price of merely $2 per tonne CO2. Meanwhile, unlike the Greens, the Coalition and Labor ignore these expertly-attested realities threatening Climate Genocide (10 billion deaths by 2100). Indeed a major driver of the Zionist Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide (680,000 deaths from violence and imposed deprivation by 25 April 2025) is off-shore gas royalties.”

28 April 2025. Australia complicit in the horrific Gaza Genocide and ignores science-trained Pope Francis: The World is existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and climate change.  “Pope Francis: The World is existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and climate change. However the Liberal-Labor Lib-Labs fervently support (1) US forces including  nuclear-armed B52s and submarines based in Australia, (2) Pine Gap enabling  US Alliance war crimes, (3) US, UK, France and Apartheid Israel nuclear terrorism, (4) $368 billion for AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines supporting the US military-industrial complex, (5) expanded CO2-generating coal, gas and iron ore exports, (6) $600 billion for inevitably military-linked nuclear energy that’s uneconomic, non-renewable and hugely CO2 emitting overall. Further, Lib-Lab policies (7) make Australian cities prime nuclear targets, (8) make Australia complicit in the horrific Gaza Genocide, (9) mean that about 100,000 Australians die preventably each year from “life-style choice” reasons, and (10 ) commit Australia to slavishly taking advice from genocidally racist  Zionists fervently supporting Australia-violating Apartheid Israel. In stark contrast, the Greens (1) take expert advice from eminent anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians with a sole allegiance to Australia, and want (2) defence of Australia and Australian lives, (3) ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), (4) urgent action on climate change, and (5 ) peaceful and respectful relations with all our neighbours.”

21 April 2025. By Anzac Day 25 April  2025 Gaza deaths will total 680,000 (mostly women and children) or 28% of the pre-war population of 2.4 million. “An expert international team of epidemiologists reported in the leading medical journal The Lancet an estimated 64,260 violent (direct) Gazan deaths by 30 June 2024. “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death” other expert epidemiologists  estimated in The Lancet that direct deaths (from violence) plus indirect deaths (from imposed deprivation) totalled 5 times the number of direct deaths i.e. 321,300 total deaths by 30 June 2024. Ignoring several weeks of a Zionist Israeli-violated  temporary ceasefire, by Anzac Day 2025 Gaza deaths will total 680,000 (mostly women and children) or 28% of the pre-war population of 2.4 million (the same percentage as for the mass murder of Jewish Hungarians, my people, in 1944-1945 and for North Koreans killed in the Korean War). The Coalition refuses to act on International Criminal Court arrest warrants for 2 major Zionist Israeli perpetrators and cowardly, Zionist-perverted Labor won’t say. Both Labor and Coalition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Silence is complicity and the Web means that ignorance is no excuse. Australian voters who fail to put the war criminal-supporting Coalition last are likewise complicit in genocide.

20 April 2025. Via the present election campaigning Australian children are subject to gross intellectual child abuse by Coalition lying and rejection of International Law. “As children we are taught that the key precepts of Humanity are  Kindness and Truth. Very few of us are expert moral philosophers so we are guided on Kindness  by common observance of  the Law, including International Law. Only a few  of us are scientists or scholars so we are sensibly guided on Truth  by expert and truth-respecting scientific and scholarly opinion. However the Coalition has grossly rejected observance of International Law on genocidal war crimes by repeatedly rejecting International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for child-, mother- and women-killing Zionist Israelis Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant and indeed the ICC itself. The Coalition has  blatantly, repeatedly and falsely rejected expert scientific opinion by propagating the lie of “emissions-free nuclear energy”.  Yet in our present largely carbon-based economy the nuclear energy option involves massive greenhouse gas emissions from the mining, transporting and refining of uranium ore, the safe disposal of radioactive waste, and the building, maintenance and eventual safe dismantling  of nuclear power stations. Children can’t vote but via the present election campaigning are subject to gross intellectual child abuse by Coalition lying and rejection of International Law. Utterly disgusted informed Australians will put the Coalition last.”

16 April 2025. Australian voters: safe shelter is a basic  human right. Labor and Coalition neoliberalism comprehensively fails to address the housing crisis. Nearly all the surviving 1.7 million Gazans are homeless. Australian voters: safe shelter is a basic  human right. Labor and Coalition neoliberalism comprehensively fails to address the housing crisis: half the population rent and are excluded from the property market, and 112,000 are homeless. Further, each year about 100,000 women report domestic violence, 18,000 are rendered homeless by violence and about 50 are killed by a partner. In stark contrast, the Greens offer humane rent control and affordable housing supply solutions. Likewise Labor and the Coalition fervently support Apartheid Israel, are  complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Nearly all the surviving 1.7 million Gazans are homeless and 40,000 West Bank Palestinians have been rendered homeless in the last year by Zionist Israeli violence. By 20 January 2025 about 553,000 Gazans, mostly women and children, were killed by violence and deprivation (23% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million). The Greens demand an immediate end to the Gaza Genocide and the illegal Occupation. Decent Australians will vote topmost for the Greens and like-minded Socialist, Australia’s Voice and Muslim Votes Matter-approved candidates, put the utterly appalling and International Criminal Court-rejecting  Coalition last and Labor in between.  

14 April 2025. By 20 January 2025 Gaza deaths from violence (110,000) and deprivation (440,000) totalled about 553,000 (The Lancet) with this including 393,000 children, 51,000 women and 113,000 men. Words fail in describing the sheer horror and evil of the US-backed and Australia-complicit Gaza Genocide by Apartheid Israel. Indeed the taxpayer-funded ABC prohibits use of the words “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe this ongoing atrocity. However quantitative  assessments can be made. Thus, (1) By 20 January 2025 Gaza deaths from violence (110,000) and deprivation (440,000) totalled about 553,000 (The Lancet) with this including 393,000 children, 51,000 women and 113,000 men. (2). Before the Gaza Massacre children were 47% of the 2.4 million Gaza population. (3) “Children killed per year”:  304,000 (Gaza) versus 250,000 (Jewish children killed by Nazis in WW2). (4) “Percentage of total pre-war population killed”: 23% (Gaza) versus 59% (captive Jews in WW2) and 28% (Hungarian Jews in WW2, my people). (5) “Child percentage of those killed”: 71% (Gaza) versus 25% (Jews killed in WW2). (6)  “Prisoners killed per day per million of captive population”: 566 (Gaza Concentration Camp) versus 23 (Australian POWs of the Japanese). (7) “Percentage of children sexually abused”: 18% (US and Israel) and 25% (Australia), this exposing an utterly perverted perpetrator mindset. To avoid complicity in genocide and mass paedocide Australian voters must put the Coalition last and Labor second last.

13 April 2025. After the defeat of Nazism 80 years ago many Germans said “We didn’t know”. Come 3 May 2025 most Australians will have cursed themselves forever by complicity in this unforgivable atrocity reported daily and graphically by the TV news.  After the defeat of Nazism 80 years ago many Germans said “We didn’t know”. However in the 2025 Federal elections most Australians (perhaps 60-70%) will vote 1 for the Liberal-National Party Coalition or Labor, parties that fervently support genocidally racist  Apartheid Israel and its murderous  backer, Zionist-perverted, serial war criminal and nuclear terrorist America. The present Labor Government and Coalition Opposition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. The Coalition is even worse than Labor, praising Trump’s plans for  complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza as “big ideas”,  vowing not to enforce ICC arrest warrants for mass murdering and child-killing Zionist Israeli war criminals, and indeed adumbrating Australia quitting the ICC. Australia’s world-leading compulsory and preferential voting system is great for Humanity by holding voters as well as politicians accountable. It is expertly estimated that as of 20 January 2025 the Australia-complicit and Zionist-imposed Gaza Genocide had been associated with about 0.6 million Palestinians killed by  violence and imposed deprivation, mostly children (The Lancet). Come 3 May 2025 most Australians will have cursed themselves forever by complicity in this unforgivable atrocity reported daily and graphically by the TV news.  

16 April 2025. Housing availability and affordability is a major Australian election issue but the near-total homelessness of 1.7 million surviving Gazans is ignored.  Australian voters: safe shelter is a basic  human right. Labor and Coalition neoliberalism comprehensively fails to address the housing crisis: half the population rent and are excluded from the property market, and 112,000 are homeless. Further, each year about 100,000 women report domestic violence, 18,000 are rendered homeless by violence and about 50 are killed by a partner. In stark contrast, the Greens offer humane rent control and affordable housing supply solutions. Likewise Labor and the Coalition fervently support Apartheid Israel, are  complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Nearly all the surviving 1.7 million Gazans are homeless and 40,000 West Bank Palestinians have been rendered homeless in the last year by Zionist Israeli violence. By 20 January 2025 about 553,000 Gazans, mostly women and children, were killed by violence and deprivation (23% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million). The Greens demand an immediate end to the Gaza Genocide and the illegal Occupation. Decent Australians will vote topmost for the Greens and like-minded Socialist, Australia’s Voice and Muslim Votes Matter-approved candidates, put the utterly appalling and International Criminal Court-rejecting  Coalition last and Labor in between.  

14 April 2025. “Children killed per year”:  304,000 (Gaza) versus 250,000 (Jewish children killed by Nazis in WW2. Words fail in describing the sheer horror and evil of the US-backed and Australia-complicit Gaza Genocide by Apartheid Israel. Indeed the taxpayer-funded ABC prohibits use of the words “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe this ongoing atrocity. However quantitative  assessments can be made. Thus, (1) By 20 January 2025 Gaza deaths from violence (110,000) and deprivation (440,000) totalled about 553,000 (The Lancet) with this including 393,000 children, 51,000 women and 113,000 men. (2). Before the Gaza Massacre children were 47% of the 2.4 million Gaza population. (3) “Children killed per year”:  304,000 (Gaza) versus 250,000 (Jewish children killed by Nazis in WW2). (4) “Percentage of total pre-war population killed”: 23% (Gaza) versus 59% (captive Jews in WW2) and 28% (Hungarian Jews in WW2, my people). (5) “Child percentage of those killed”: 71% (Gaza) versus 25% (Jews killed in WW2). (6)  “Prisoners killed per day per million of captive population”: 566 (Gaza Concentration Camp) versus 23 (Australian POWs of the Japanese). (7) “Percentage of children sexually abused”: 18% (US and Israel) and 25% (Australia), this exposing an utterly perverted perpetrator mindset. To avoid complicity in genocide and mass paedocide Australian voters must put the Coalition last and Labor second last.

13 April 2025. Australia’s world-leading compulsory and preferential voting system is great for Humanity by holding voters as well as politicians accountable. After the defeat of Nazism 80 years ago many Germans said “We didn’t know”. However in the 2025 Federal elections most Australians (perhaps 60-70%) will vote 1 for the Liberal-National Party Coalition or Labor, parties that fervently support genocidally racist  Apartheid Israel and its murderous  backer, Zionist-perverted, serial war criminal and nuclear terrorist America. The present Labor Government and Coalition Opposition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. The Coalition is even worse than Labor, praising Trump’s plans for  complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza as “big ideas”,  vowing not to enforce ICC arrest warrants for mass murdering and child-killing Zionist Israeli war criminals, and indeed adumbrating Australia quitting the ICC. Australia’s world-leading compulsory and preferential voting system is great for Humanity by holding voters as well as politicians accountable. It is expertly estimated that as of 20 January 2025 the Australia-complicit and Zionist-imposed Gaza Genocide had been associated with about 0.6 million Palestinians killed by  violence and imposed deprivation, mostly children (The Lancet). Come 3 May 2025 most Australians will have cursed themselves forever by complicity in this unforgivable atrocity reported daily and graphically by the TV news.  

12 April 2025. MSM lying: Sack lying, racist and traitorous internal ABC censors. As revealed in “Manufacturing Consent” by famed  American scholars Professors Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, US Mainstream media  lie for the American Establishment and US-beholden Western Mainstream media follow suit. Thus on 9 April 2025 World billionaires (902 American) made $300 billion by Trump-enabled insider-trading, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. As revealed by famed Australian writer Peter Carey, Australian journalists know to stick to the official narrative or be punished. It has been my obligation and honour as an Australian to have defended in writing (but necessarily published overseas) some 40 wonderful Australian writers persecuted for truth-telling from Wilfred Burchett to Mary Kostakidis. Our precious democracy must be properly informed but it seems generally conceded (but not by me) that commercial media bosses have the right to erase expertly-established truths e.g. 0.6 million Gaza dead from violence and deprivation (The Lancet), that “emissions-free nuclear” is a lie,  and that “journalists killed per year per million of population” is presently 70 (Gaza) versus 0.008 (the World average). However the taxpayer-funded ABC is legally obliged to report truthfully to Australians - it should sack lying, racist and traitorous internal ABC censors.

11 April 2025. lying, terracidal and paedophobic Labor and Coalition. Stephen Hawking: “We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change”. Australian Julian Cribb on what Humanity including Australia must do for future generations: “End all use of fossil fuels as fast as possible…Immediately ban all nuclear and weapons of mass destruction and destroy their infrastructure”. However under nuclear-armed US-allied Labor or Coalition Australia with 0.3% of the world’s population has annual Domestic plus Exported greenhouse gas emissions that are 5.4% of the World’s total. A scientist, I wear a badge saying “300 ppm CO2” (what the atmospheric CO2 should be for a safe planet) but the Trump-threatened US NOAA reports that the atmosphere has reached 427 ppm CO2. Decent Australians who love their children, grandchildren and future generations will put the anti-science and climate criminal Coalition last, vote topmost for the pro-Planet Greens and like-minded candidates, and put unprincipled and disingenuous  Labor in between. I also wear a badge saying “Free Palestine” but lying, terracidal and paedophobic Labor and Coalition are also unforgivably complicit in the Gaza Genocide (The Lancet: 0.6 million killed by violence and deprivation, mostly children).

10 April 2025. The Coalition assertion of  “emissions-free nuclear” is false (again). Our precious democracy should be properly informed, especially about the existential threat to Humanity from climate change. Instead in the Climate Wars we suffered a barrage of outright falsehoods from powerful, climate change denialist vested interests including  false assertions of “clean coal” and “clean gas”. Presently, the Coalition assertion of  “emissions-free nuclear” is false because it ignores massive attendant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a Carbon Economy from mining, transporting and enriching uranium ores, safely storing radioactive waste, and building, maintaining and ultimately dismantling hugely expensive nuclear power plants. Indeed using publicly available data one can conservatively estimate that the $600 billion cost of implementing  the Coalition’s nuclear plan  translates to emission of 65 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. To paraphrase Elon Musk in another context: “Dumber than a sack of bricks”. In science there is zero tolerance for falsehood. Humanity- and science-informed Australian voters  will put the Coalition last.

9 April 2025. The Coalition assertion of  “emissions-free nuclear” is false. The core ethos of Humanity involves Kindness and Truth but this has been grossly violated by the pro-war and anti-science Coalition for all of my 63 years of adult life. Thus killing people is the ultimate in Unkindness and the Coalition supported all the 1950 onwards US Asian wars (atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence and deprivation). Presently the Coalition is deeply complicit in the Gaza Genocide (0.6 million killed through violence and deprivation, as estimated from data published in The Lancet by expert epidemiologists) and particularly by refusal to enforce International Criminal Court (ICC)-issued war crimes arrest warrants for Zionist Israeli war criminals Netanyahu and Gallant. The Coalition is anti-science and hence pro-lying  by effective climate change denialism through supporting dirty, deadly, greenhouse gas (GHG)-polluting  and  non-renewable coal, gas and nuclear. Just one example: the Coalition assertion of  “emissions-free nuclear” is false because it ignores massive attendant GHG emissions in a Carbon Economy from mining, transporting and enriching uranium ores, safely storing radioactive waste, and building, maintaining and ultimately dismantling hugely expensive nuclear power plants (as a scientist I routinely and safely used radioactive materials for 4 decades).

2 April 2025. Decent Australians will be compelled to put the Coalition last. Nearly 2,000 top scientists, all members of the prestigious US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and including Nobel Prize winners, have just issued an Open Letter urgently warning about the Trump administration's "wholesale assault on U.S. science”,  saying that the actions threaten America's health, economy and global leadership in research (New York Times, Xinhua, 1/4/25). In Australia the anti-science, anti-universities, climate criminal and Trumpist Coalition promises to  sack 41,000 public servants (many of whom are scientists or science-informed) and when previously in office sacked 40,000 university staff by cutting university funding. Further, the Coalition refuses to act on International Criminal Court (ICC)-issued war crimes arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, threatens exiting the ICC, and has praised pathologically mendacious Trump as a “big thinker” over his plan to completely ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. Trump estimates 1.7 million surviving Gazans from a pre-war population of 2.4 million in agreement with expert estimates in the leading medical journal The Lancet of about 0.6 million killed by violence and imposed deprivation. Kindness and Truth constitute the key ethos of Humanity and decent Australians will be compelled to put the Coalition last. 

Published (slightly edited) in The Independent Australia (Dr Gideon Polya, “For science’s sake, vote the Coalition last”, Letters, The Independent, 3 April 2025:  https://independentaustralia.net/vn.php?sd=eGpJZTMyenoxOTUyNnxZWFZ6ZEhKaGJHbGhPVGt3TUVCbmJXRnBiQzVqYjIwPXw3MDN8MTY3NzY2MzkwMA  ):

27 March 2025. World silence permits the Gaza Genocide – Apartheid Israel leads world in killing journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports 1,671 journalists killed worldwide in the 32 year period 1993-2025 for which the average world population was 6,800 million, this indicating “0.0077 journalists killed per year per million of population”. The anti-racist Jewish American web magazine Mondoweiss reported (25/3/2025): “Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour were the latest Palestinian journalists to be assassinated in Gaza. Responsibility for their killings rests in part on their Western colleagues who have failed to accurately cover Israel's genocidal assault… Since October 2023, at least 208 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces… it is a systematic campaign to eliminate witnesses”. The average population of Gaza in the 1.46 year period of 7 October 2023- 25 March 2025 was 2.4 million (pre-war) + 1.7 million (now, according to Trump) /2 = 2.05 million, this indicating “69.5 journalists killed per year per million of population”,  9,026 times greater than the world average. A scientist and prolific humanitarian writer, I have been rendered invisible in Australia by Zionist defamation, but I am proud that I have defended (necessarily overseas) some 40 humanitarian and variously eminent and maltreated Australian truth-tellers. World silence permits the Gaza Genocide. Silence is complicity.

26 March 2025. Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism but pro-Zionism surely is. The Caulfield, Melbourne franchise of Semitic Palestinian Australian Hash Tayeh’s Burgertory burger chain was gutted by arson in November 2023 in what police said was not a hate crime. 2 alleged perpetrators were arrested and stated that they were paid $20,000. In April 2024 Tayeh’s home was fire-bombed and he moved his family into a safe house. In July 2024 Tayeh was threatened by police, has now been charged with allegedly using insulting words about Zionists being terrorists, and faces imprisonment. Conversely, in December 2024 the non-Zionist Orthodox Jewish Adass Synagogue in Melbourne was damaged by arson. The perpetrators (possibly Zionists) have not been caught but this atrocity was exploited by pro-Zionist MPs to mount terrorism hysteria and antisemitism hysteria and pass draconian anti-free speech legislation impacting all Australians. In the 2025 Federal  Budget $30 million was allotted to repair of the synagogue. Zionism as proposed by non-Semitic, Turkic  Khazar-origin Ashkenazi Jews (notably Herzl) is genocidal racism in awful settler-colonial theory and in horrific Orwellian Apartheid Israeli practice: 0.6 million Gazans killed so far by violence and deprivation (The Lancet). Terrorism is as terrorism does, antisemitism is as antisemitism does. Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism but pro-Zionism surely is.

25 March 2025. unforgivable Gaza genocide denial and holocaust denial. Huge minimization of deaths in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million according to eminent Jewish British historian Professor Martin Gilbert of Oxford) is subject to custodial punishment in some Western European countries and Apartheid Israel. In Australia it could conceivably be punished by a mandatory 2 years’ imprisonment as “anti-Semitic hate speech”. I hasten to opine as an anti-racist, Ashkenazi Jewish libertarian that the only punishment for such falsehood should be the ignominy of authoritative public exposure. There have been 0.6 million Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation by 20 January 2025 as estimated from reports by expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet. The Zionist perpetrators  were mostly non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jewish Israelis, but their Palestinian victims are Semitic. Anti-racist Jewish American Professor Bertell Ollman (NYU): “The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis” (Google or Bing “Jews against racist Zionism”).  However Google “Gaza deaths” and you will find that Western and Australian media  presently estimate 50,000 deaths with about 10,000 more buried in rubble i.e. 10 times fewer than estimated by expert epidemiologists – unforgivable Gaza genocide denial and holocaust denial.

24 March 2025. In evil reality pro-Zionism is genocidal anti-Semitism. A Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist,  Ashkenazi Jewish Australian scientist and humanitarian activist, I have attended most of the weekly Melbourne Sunday Rallies for Gaza with a highly visible 2-sided placard that includes the vital message “World: Stop Palestinian Genocide”.  The New York Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner recently published a photo of Melbourne protesters including  me and my placard, albeit with a false, defamatory and dangerous description that it refuses to retract and that if accepted by an Australian court would subject me and fellow protesters to 2 to  6 years of mandatory imprisonment under recent Labor- and Coalition-backed Federal legislation. I have published about 1,000 articles and 9 huge books concerning horrific  global avoidable mortality from imposed deprivation but have been rendered ”invisible” in Australia  by 15 years of false, damaging and anti-Semitic defamation by Zionists – real, damaging anti-Semitism. Labor, the Coalition, Zionists and like-minded others routinely falsely defame anti-racist Jews, Arabs and Muslims (anti-Jewish anti-Semitism and anti-Arab anti-Semitism) by falsely conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, but in evil reality pro-Zionism is genocidal anti-Semitism. Violent  Gazan deaths totalled 64,260 after 9 months or 110,000 by 20 January 2025, with  possibly 4 times more (440,000) dying from imposed deprivation (The Lancet). The Algemeiner: https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/12/26/may-2025-be-end-israel-australian-writer-calls-destruction-jewish-state-mark-new-year/ .

23 March 2025. Lying by omission is far worse than lying by commission. 80 years ago US-born German citizen William Joyce (“Lord Haw Haw” to Allied soldiers) was arrested by the British, tried for treason and hanged the following year for broadcasting propaganda for Nazi Germany. We should ponder how to expose, arraign and punish Australians who lie for foreign states inimical to  Australia like the Zionist-perverted US, the Zionist-subverted UK and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel. These cowardly and traitorous media, politician and commentariat presstitutes  ignore the Australian-complicit, US- and UK-backed 1975 coup that removed the Whitlam Labor Government as reported by the late great Australian journalist John Pilger. Indeed they overwhelmingly  ignore  Australian involvement in at least 8 US-backed government removals (coups) in the Indo-Pacific region, notably Australia (1975), Fiji (1987), Fiji (2000) and Australia (2010), the last 3 of which involved Apartheid Israel from publicly available information. Lying by omission is far worse than lying by commission because the latter while utterly repugnant at least permits public refutation and debate. In this Australian culture of  Orwellian lying it is not surprising that the Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways (the Coalition Opposition is even worse).  

22 March 2025. Peace the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Humane Australian writer and appalled observer Mary Gilmore reported “The destruction of at least half a million blacks” in the Australian Aboriginal Genocide and horrible atrocities by literally and metaphorically blood-stained settlers. According to the polls, in  2025 it seems that most Australian voters will enter a voting booth and secretly vote for Gaza Genocide-complicit politicians -  and then innocently emerge to eat a “democracy sausage”. One recalls the Flanders and Swann song about “The reluctant cannibal” who declares: “I won’t eat people… Eating people is wrong”. Killing people is wrong  and mass murder of children, women and men egregiously so. Reported by some Western Mainstream media, expert epidemiologists have reported in the leading medical journal The Lancet their estimate that 67,260 Gazans were killed violently in 9 months (i.e. 110,000 killed by 20 January 2025 and mostly women and children). A further 440,000 may have died from imposed deprivation. Those voting for Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor, Coalition and like-minded other candidates will indelibly stain Australia. Blood- and conscience-troubled Lady Macbeth’s “Perfumes of Arabia” came to Europe via extremely culturally-important but now Zionist-destroyed Gaza. Peace the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.

21 March 2025. Gaza genocide-complicit Labor, Coalition and like others. Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is a courageous, pro-Palestinian human rights, Australian academic whose $870,000 ARC Research Grant has been suspended in deference to Zionists who fervently support Australia-violating and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel. She has stated: "May 2025 be the end of Israel. May it be the end of the US-Israeli imperial scourge on humanity… May every baby slaughtered in Zionism’s genocide haunt you who openly support or acquiesce through your gutless silence." How many babies slaughtered? Expert epidemiologists and statisticians in the leading medical journal The Lancet estimate 110,000 violent Gaza deaths by the 20 January 2025 Ceasefire, but also note that 4 times that number (i.e. 440,000) may have died indirectly from imposed deprivation. However under-5 infants are highly vulnerable and represent 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries. Accordingly by 20 January 2025 Gaza under-5 infants killed totalled about 308,000, and it is estimated that the 553,000 Gazans killed by violence and deprivation included 390,000 children, 51,000 women and 113,000 men. As predicted Apartheid Israel resumed the utterly appalling mass killing after nearly all the hostages had been released. Australians supporting Gaza genocide-complicit Labor, Coalition and like others should be forever haunted.

20 March 2025. Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism but pro-Zionism is. On 19/3/25 I attended a multi-organization Rally at Parliament House against the Victorian Labor Government’s  attack on free speech and decency via Victoria’s anti-semitic Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion Bill that seriously threatens anti-racist Jews, non-Jews, Arabs and Muslims opposed to the Palestinian Genocide. I wore my T-shirt stating (white on black) “JEWS for a FREE PALESTINE” that  endlessly garners support in public from total strangers (nearly all women). I am also strengthened by the stance of the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia, the 520 Jewish Australians who signed an Open Letter saying “Jewish Australians say NO to ethnic cleansing”, and the 3-millennial Jewish humanitarian tradition. The Palestinians are a Semitic people with a 4 millennium, Humanity-transforming culture but are subject to sustained genocide by overwhelmingly non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jewish and Christian Zionists. There are 2 kinds of Australians, those opposing the mass murder of children, mothers, women and men in Gaza and the unforgivable others that include pro-Zionist Federal and State Labor and Coalition MPs and like-minded Independents. Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism but pro-Zionism is. Decent, anti-racist Australian voters will put the anti-genocide Greens and like-minded candidates topmost, put the Zionist-perverted, ICC-rejecting Coalition last, and  Israel-perverted Labor in between.

19 March 2024. 0.6 million Gazans killed through violence and deprivation. “The Australian Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. The Coalition Opposition is even worse, declaring that it would not enforce ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant and praising Trump’s plans, including ethnically cleansing Gaza. Now with only 24 Israeli hostages left alive, the Israelis have shattered the Ceasefire, killing over 400 Gazans. In response, cowardly, dishonest and Zionist-perverted Labor stated: “All parties …  respect the terms of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal”. Before the Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp on 7 October 2023 and the deaths of 1,139 Israelis (many killed by the IDF) there were 5.6 million Occupied Palestinians (held hostage without human rights since Apartheid Israel illegally seized all of Palestine in 1967 as well as territory of all its neighbours). By 30 January 2025 there were only 5.0 million left, with 0.6 million Gazans killed through violence and deprivation (as estimated by epidemiological experts in The Lancet and also by Trump). Australian voters can avoid “complicity in genocide” by Voting for Humanity (the anti-genocide Greens and like-minded others), rejecting Labor and putting the Coalition last. Numbers matter*”. *Gideon Polya, “LeMay, Albright & Trump: 3 US Officials Who Confessed To US Mass Murder Of Civilians”, Countercurrents, 17 March 2025: https://countercurrents.org/2025/03/lemay-albright-trump-3-us-officials-who-confessed-to-us-mass-murder-of-civilians/ .

18 March 2025. US complicity in the Gaza Genocide with 0.6 million killed. Former Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull, former Labor PM Paul Keating, the Labor Left and the Greens have argued cogently that AUKUS is not in the Australian national interest. Indeed the late former Coalition PM Malcolm Fraser declared “Slavish devotion to the US a foreign policy folly for Australia”. 5 key arguments not yet canvassed in Mainstream Australia are (1) AUKUS makes Australia a prime nuclear target in any escalating US conflict with a nuclear power; (2) 40 million Asians died from violence and  deprivation in 1950 onwards US Asian wars (the Coalition backed them all and Labor backed all but the Vietnam War and the Iraq War); (3) $368 billion plus for White Elephant submarines would be better spent on trying to keep alive the 100,000 Australians who die preventably each year from life-style choice causes; (4) nuclear weapons existentially threaten Humanity (Stephen Hawking) and Australia should join the TPNW as advocated by the Melbourne-founded and Nobel Prize-winning ICAN; and (5) utterly unforgivable US complicity in the Gaza Genocide with 0.6 million killed so far by violence and deprivation, mostly women and children, according to expert epidemiologists in The Lancet and Trump’s assertion of  only “1.7 million” left.

14 March 2025. Urge Aussies to Vote for Humanity by opposing genocide.  Kevin Maimann (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and Jonathan Cook (Israel-based British writer and doyen of Middle East reporters) have noted the arithmetic implications of Trump’s plan to completely ethnically cleanse Gaza by removing a Trump-asserted “1.7 million” surviving Gazans: 2.4 million (pre-war population) minus 1.7 million (survivors) equals 0.7 million “disappeared”. Because about 0.1 million Gazans found sanctuary in Egypt, this implies a Gaza death toll of 0.6 million. This Trump Administration-based estimate is in agreement  with estimates by expert epidemiologists published in the leading medical journal The Lancet of about 0.6 million Gazan deaths by 20 January 2025 from Jewish Israeli-imposed violence (20%) and deprivation (80%). Most of the dead are children and women. Professor Stuart Rees (founder of the prestigious  Sydney Peace Prize, author of “Cruelty or Humanity” and recipient of the Jerusalem Al Quds Peace Prize) and like-minded humanitarians urge Aussies to Vote for Humanity by opposing genocide as the key issue of the May elections. Australian voters must avoid complicity in genocide by putting the Greens or like-minded  anti-genocide candidates first, the ICC-rejecting, genocide-complicit and fervently Zionist Coalition last, and cowardly, Zionist-subverted and genocide-complicit Labor in between (cc MPs).

11 March 2025. Solution to the “conflict” (genocide) in Palestine is simple. The Solution to the “conflict” (genocide) in Palestine is simple and quick – the World tells US-backed Apartheid Israel to immediately grant full human rights to its Indigenous Palestinian Subjects or face rigorously-applied global  Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to be also applied against all its disgraceful supporters, these notably including the US, UK, EU and Australia. After the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre (69 Africans killed) a shocked  World immediately adopted this peaceful approach that eventually saw South African Apartheid abolished by 1994. This approach is surely even more compelling after the killing of 553,000 Gazans or 23% of the pre-war population by 20 January 2025 through Jewish Israeli-imposed violence and deprivation (The Lancet). It is so simple – as Australia decided internally by Referendum in 1967, all people are created equal. This was obvious to me in the 1960s because my partner (and thence wife for 52 years until her death) was Dark Brown, Asian, from a Muslim family and her father had helped her multi-racial country to Independence. However in our travels we had to avoid the US Deep South and Apartheid South Africa to avoid imprisonment. Wonderful Jewish Palestinian Jesus: “Love thy neighbour as thyself” (cc MPs).

8 March 2025. Mainstream Western media (e.g. the BBC) have published the estimate in the leading medical journal The Lancet that violent (direct) deaths in Gaza totalled 64,260 in 9 months i.e. 111,000 by the Ceasefire on 20 January 2025. However they resolutely ignore expert estimates also published in The Lancet that non-violent (indirect) deaths from imposed deprivation may be 4 times greater, this indicating Gaza deaths from violence and imposed deprivation totalling about 553,000  or 23% of the pre-war population by 20 January 2025. Noting that under-5 infants are 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries (Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality  since 1950”), it is estimated that these deaths include those of 393,000 children, 51,000 women and 113,000 men. As is my duty I have informed nearly all Federal and Victorian State MPs. The only MPs consistently demanding an immediate and permanent Ceasefire and an end to the deadly Occupation have been the Greens and several Independents (notably Senators Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman). Silence is complicity. Informed Australians voting for Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor, the worse Coalition and indeed nearly all non-Green candidates are complicit in the mass murder of children, women and men (cc MPs).

6 March 2025. Australia must quit the AUKUS Alliance with a genocidal US. The US and Apartheid Israel insist on the total ethnic cleansing of an assertedly “now uninhabitable” Gaza and have accordingly rejected Egypt’s plan (endorsed by the Arab League) for rebuilding Gaza because it does not involve total genocide. Underscoring this insane evil, Apartheid Israel has re-instated the total blockade of devastated and starving Gaza. Already data in the leading medical journal The Lancet imply that an estimated 553,000 Gazans (mostly children and 23% of the pre-war population) had died  by 20 January 2025 from Jewish Israeli-imposed violence (111,000) and deprivation (442,000). Britain declared war when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. New Zealand’s sane objection to nuclear weapons obliged it to leave ANZUS. Australia must quit diplomatic ties with a genocidal Apartheid Israel, and likewise Australia must quit the AUKUS Alliance with a genocidal US. The simplest way is by joining the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) which is Labor Party policy, prohibits support “in any way”  for deployment of nuclear weapons, would free Australia from being a prime nuclear target in any escalating nuclear exchange, and is advocated by the sane, Melbourne-founded, Australian-headed and Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

1 March 2025. This latest attack on academic and student free speech. A year ago I published a detailed analysis entitled “Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech”. Today university free speech is grossly  and disgustingly threatened by “the enemy within”, grossly over-paid university bosses (“refugees from scholarship” according to my scholarly Jewish refugee father Dr John Polya). 25 years ago I addressed a large Melbourne Conference on the Public University and my detailed contribution entitled “Current Academic Censorship and Self-Censorship in Australian Universities” was later published after scrutiny by an eminent law professor. As a scientist I offered Solutions, the last of which was “Finally, we should publicly insist that universities that constrain free speech are not fit for our children”. Realistically I can only faintly hope that some if not all Australian universities (and especially the 5 with which I have been variously associated since 1961 as a student, teacher and researcher) will break ranks and join with the anti-racist and scholarly Jewish Council of Australia  in condemning this latest attack on academic and student free speech that, incidentally, also acutely threatens Australia’s $40 billion per annum Education Export Industry. Offer: I am happy to be an unpaid  24/7 Vice Chancellor.     

27 February 2025. Trashed the core academic ethos of unfettered free speech. Apartheid Israel has excluded Occupied Palestinians from all the human rights set out in the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Indeed the  Gaza Genocide (553,000 Gazans killed by violence and imposed deprivation according to expert reports in The Lancet) means that the fundamental right to life is being  grossly violated. In a move condemned by the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia, Australia’s  universities are set to seriously constrain the free speech re Apartheid Israel’s Gaza Genocide of academics and students, and notably those among the 520 anti-racist  Jews  who this week  signed the declaration “Jewish Australians say NO to ethnic cleansing” . The corporatist “million dollar pa” university bosses  responsible for this perversion  (“refugees from scholarship” according to my scholarly Jewish refugee father, Dr John Polya) have unforgivably trashed the core academic ethos of unfettered free speech, the core Kindness and Truth ethos of decent Humanity, and the 3,000 year Jewish humanitarian tradition. Offer: a  much-published scholar and former academic over 4  decades I am happy to be a VC for nothing.

18 February 2025. What would happen to Jesus if he came to Albo Australia? Donald Trump has indicated only 1.8 million surviving Gazans for proposed total ethnic cleansing from Gaza out of a pre-war population of 2.4 million i.e. 600,000 have euphemistically “disappeared” from Apartheid Israel’s  devastated Gaza Concentration Camp. Western Mainstream media assert about 50,000 killed by violence in Gaza and resolutely ignore a further 500,000 deaths from imposed deprivation (The Lancet), this being expertly estimated to include about 390,000 children. Back in the days of opposing the  genocidal Vietnam War we used to ask what would happen to wonderful, peace-loving Jesus if he came to warmongering Australia. The Labor Government, the Coalition Opposition and indeed nearly all non-Green Federal MPs have answered the question for 2025: what would happen to Jesus if he came to Albo Australia today and reiterated “But whoso shall offend ONE of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18.6)? Semitic Palestinian and anti-racist Jewish Jesus would be subject to a mandatory  1 year term of imprisonment for asserted “antisemitic hate speech”.

14 February 2025. Stupid bravado – Muslim Australian nurses threatening death to ex-IDF Jewish Israeli.  The stupid and offensive bragging of 2 Muslim Australian nurses threatening death to a Jewish Israeli social media influencer and likely former IDF member was also dangerous in that it might diminish patient trust in nurses and Australia’s marvellous health system. The perpetrators have apologized, the male nurse indicating that it was a ”joke”. Instead of being stood down, counselled and appropriately re-trained they have been sacked, deregistered and threatened with 1 to 6 years of mandatory imprisonment for asserted “terrorism” or “antisemitism” – 2 young lives ruined by war criminal Netanyahu- and Zionist-driven antisemitism hysteria in the interests of Australia-violating, Australian-killing, and Labor- and Coalition-backed  Apartheid Israel that is presently involved in the mass murder of children, mothers and women in Gaza. From reports in the top medical journal The Lancet it is estimated that by 20 January 2025 about 110,670  Gazans had died violently in the Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide and that a further 443,000 had died indirectly from imposed deprivation. In my varied career it was my great pleasure and privilege to teach wonderful nursing students. 

12 February 2025. Defend anti-racist Australian Jews from Zionist and Coalition hatred. The fanatically pro-Zionist and Zionist-backed Australian Coalition won’t enforce ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu who has declared that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism” and that the UN is “a swamp of antisemitic bile”. The Coalition has weaponized antisemitism  by attacking Labor for voting at the UNGA for an end to the Occupation, unhappiness over free speech-threatening mandatory sentencing for alleged antisemitism, and alleged inaction on antisemitism. Indeed the Coalition disgracefully  moved in Federal Parliament that Australia’s Jewish Attorney General “be not heard” on antisemitism. A top Zionist has described the anti-racist and pro-human rights Jewish Council of Australia as “the  Israel bashing Jew Haters Council of Australia” and  declared that “Nothing, but nothing, is worse than those Jews who level totally unfounded allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the State of Israel. They are repulsive and revolting human beings. Their relatives who were murdered by the Nazis - the role models for Hamas - will undoubtedly be turning in their graves. Their avowed anti Zionism is clearly no more than a cover for the reality that they are vicious anti-Semites”.  Australians can defend Australian Jews from Zionist and Coalition hatred – real anti-Jewish anti-Semitism - by putting the Coalition last.

12 February 2025. Letter to Crikey re defending anti-racist Australian Jews from Zionist and Coalition hatred Bernard Keane’s excellent article “Many are guilty of politicising antisemitism. Dutton is the master” (12/2), the fanatically pro-Zionist and Zionist-backed Coalition won’t enforce ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu who has declared that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism” and that the UN is “a swamp of antisemitic bile”. The Coalition has weaponized antisemitism  by attacking Labor for voting at the UNGA for an end to the Occupation, unhappiness over free speech-threatening mandatory sentencing for alleged antisemitism, and alleged inaction on antisemitism. Indeed the Coalition disgracefully  moved in Federal Parliament that Australia’s Jewish Attorney General “be not heard” on antisemitism. A top Zionist has described the anti-racist and pro-human rights Jewish Council of Australia as “the  Israel bashing Jew Haters Council of Australia” and  declared that “Nothing, but nothing, is worse than those Jews who level totally unfounded allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the State of Israel. They are repulsive and revolting human beings. Their relatives who were murdered by the Nazis - the role models for Hamas - will undoubtedly be turning in their graves. Their avowed anti Zionism is clearly no more than a cover for the reality that they are vicious anti-Semites”.  Australians can defend Australian Jews from Zionist and Coalition hatred – real anti-Jewish anti-Semitism - by putting the Coalition last.

10 February 2025. The Victorian Parliament rally of wonderful anti-racist Jews. As a Jewish Holocaust-impacted anti-racist Jewish Australian with a sole allegiance to Australia, I attended the Victorian Parliament rally of wonderful anti-racist Jews and their supporters on Sunday 9 February. We were protesting the horrific Gaza Genocide and the comprehensive denial of human rights to Indigenous Palestinians. I carried a highly visible 2-sided placard saying “World: Stop Palestinian Genocide, Zionism” and “Boycott Apartheid Israel, Labor, Libs”. Like many of the attendees I wore a black T-shirt with the message in white of “Jews for a free Palestine”. We were addressed by Indigenous Australian, Indigenous Palestinian and Jewish speakers including an eminent Jewish barrister. The marvellous Victoria Police separated us from Zionist counter-demonstrators waving Israeli flags. The core messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero  tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone” and “bear witness”. Famed anti-racist Jewish Australian ethicist Professor Peter Singer: “We are responsible for what we do and for what we fail to do”. Australia’s first Australian-born governor-general, Jewish Sir Isaac Isaacs: “The honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism”. Unfortunately Labor, Coalition and nearly all  non-Green Federal MPs ignore such eminent anti-racist Jewish opinion.

8 February 2025. America-, Zionist- and Apartheid Israel-perverted Australia. Months of Zionist, Labor, Coalition and media “antisemitism hysteria” to obscure the horrific, Jewish Israeli-imposed  Gaza Genocide (over 0.5 million direct and indirect deaths; The Lancet) have culminated in highly intimidatory and free speech-constraining Federal legislation for mandatory imprisonment of 6 years for asserted “terrorism” and of 1 year for  asserted “antisemitism” by “hate-speech” including giving the Nazi salute and displaying Nazi symbols. Nazi is as Nazi does. Terrorist is as terrorist does. Cowardly Labor agreed to this even though the Labor Party is opposed to mandatory minimum sentencing. State Labor governments are following suit. Free speech is a fundamental human right and is crucial for science, scholarship, culture and an informed democracy. Indeed American free speech advocate and X owner Elon Musk described the Australian banning of under-16 year old children from social  media as “fascist”. US- and Australia-protected and  ICC-sought genocidal war criminal and horrific terrorist Netanyahu stated that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”. Accordingly anti-racism and anti-genocide Jewish  and non-Jewish humanitarians are now seriously threatened in Netanyahu-, Trump America-, Zionist- and Apartheid Israel-perverted Australia. Silence is complicity. Informed, decent  Australians will put a traitorous Coalition last and a traitorous Labor second last.

7 February 2025. Oz anti-Arab anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism. An anti-racist Jewish Australian I abhor racism and Oz anti-Arab anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism. I reject Labor and the Coalition because they (1) won’t support  the annual UNGA Anti-Nazism Resolution, (2) fervently support Apartheid Israel and hence the crimes of genocide and Apartheid, (3) won’t act on ICC warrants for genocidal Jewish Israeli war criminals Netanyahu and Gallant, (4) won’t condemn Trump’s plan for ethnically cleansing Gaza, (5) falsely defame anti-racist Jews by falsely  conflating Apartheid Israel with all Jews, (6) exacerbate antisemitism by supporting Jewish Israeli crimes, (7) support  the Gaza Genocide and Palestinian Genocide in 20 ways, lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, (8) hysterically weaponize asserted “antisemitism” for political purposes (some of the perpetrators may indeed be Zionists), (9) are perverted by Australia-violating Apartheid Israel and its Zionist supporters, (10) lie and violate as craven lackeys of serial war criminal, Zionist-perverted America, (11) betray Australia by inaction over existential threats from nuclear weapons and climate change, (12) ignore eminent anti-racist Jewish opinion, (13) threaten academic and general free speech and anti-racist activists, (14) are complicit in anti-Arab anti-Semitism and the US-imposed  Muslim Holocaust, and (15) trash Jewry, Judaism and  3-millennial Jewish  humanitarianism.  

6 February 2025. Australia next? Australians: quit AUKUS, put Coalition last . By supplying 75,000 tons of bombs for the destruction  of Gaza and the direct and indirect killing of over 0.5 million Gazans (The Lancet) Biden committed genocide, defined by Article  2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. In just 1 fortnight Trump has foreshadowed war criminal invasion of Panama, Canada, and Greenland/Denmark and has promised to “obliterate” Iran (population 92 million). Trump has flouted ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, has resumed delivering 2,000 pound bombs to Apartheid Israel and now wants to invade and ethnically cleanse Gaza. Article 3 of the Genocide  Convention: “The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide”. The cowardly, Gaza Genocide-complicit  Australian Labor Government is silent and Coalition Opposition leader Dutton has praised Trump, describing his plan as “Part of a desire to see peace and stability in the region”. Australia next? Australians: quit AUKUS, put Coalition last and Labor second last.

5 February 2025. MPs have crudely weaponized anti-Jewish anti-Semitism. Apartheid Israel, its Zionist supporters, the Murdoch media and nearly all non-Green Australian MPs have crudely weaponized anti-Jewish anti-Semitism for political purposes and to hide the horror of the US-backed and Jewish Israeli-imposed  Gaza Genocide: the destruction of Gaza, 553,000 Semitic Gazans killed by violence (111,000) and imposed deprivation (443,000) or 24% of the pre-war population (7/10/2023 – 20/1/2025; The Lancet) and this involving the killing of an estimated 393,000 children, 51,000 women and 113,000 men. Yet the present genocide-ignoring Australian Mainstream “antisemitism hysteria” derives from the following deplorable anti-Jewish anti-Semitic incidents in 1 year: physical assault (65 but no deaths), vandalism (29), verbal abuse (622), message (283), graffiti (393), posters, stickers (670) (ECAJ Antisemitism Report 2024). Largely ignored by the Zionist-perverted Mainstream, 96,000 Australian women suffered physical violence from their current partner (2022), and 46 were killed (2023). 18,700 Australians - mostly women and children - became homeless due to domestic violence (2024) but no Jews were made homeless due to violence, abuse or graffiti. Labor and the Coalition are unforgivably complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Silence is complicity.

29 January 2025. Millions of Indigenous deaths from imposed deprivation My wider Jewish Hungarian family was decimated in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Hungary. I am inescapably bound by its  key moral messages of “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”,  “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. However these moral imperatives are  grossly violated by the US, the US Alliance and Western Mainstream media in their support for the ongoing Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide. Expert epidemiological reports in the leading medical journal The Lancet indicate 553,000 Gaza deaths from violence and imposed deprivation by 20 January 2025 in the 360 square kilometre Gaza Concentration Camp (428,000 killed per year) but this is resolutely ignored by holocaust-ignoring Western Mainstream media  who also ignore the tens of millions of Indigenous deaths from imposed deprivation in Australia-backed post-WW2 US wars. At least 1,100,000 inmates were killed  over 3 years by the Nazis in the 40 square kilometre Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp complex  (367,000 killed per year) that was liberated by the Red Army 80 years ago on 27 January 1945. Silence is complicity, and the complicit have inescapably cursed themselves, the curse being endlessly renewed at the going down of the sun and in the morning. Lest we forget.

28 January 2025. Sane, anti-genocide Australians say quit the US Alliance  .The Palestinians have suffered 3 mass expulsion atrocities by Zionist invaders: the 1948 Nakba or Catastrophe (800,000 or 60 % of the Palestinians expelled,  530 villages emptied), the 1967  Naksa or Setback (400,000 expelled by a nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel) and the 2023-2025 Gaza Genocide (most of the pre-war population of 2.3 million Palestinians forced out of their homes and Gaza largely destroyed). Now Trump describes Gaza as a “demolition site”, has renewed 2,000-pound bomb shipments to Israel, extolls Jewish Israeli  Gaza redevelopment possibilities, and now proposes relocation of 1.5 million surviving Gazans to  Jordan and Egypt (ethnic cleansing): “You’re talking about one and a half million people, and we will just remove this issue altogether”. On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Union’s Red Army, decent, sane, anti-genocide Australians say quit the US Alliance that has made Australia  complicit in the Korean, Vietnamese, Iraqi, Afghan and Palestinian Genocides, has stationed 3,000  US military and nuclear-armed bombers and warships in Australia, has made Australia a prime nuclear target, and has diverted $400 billion from keeping sick Australians alive  to supporting US and UK nuclear terrorism. Silence is complicity.

27 January 2025. Defamation and intimidation of anti-racist Jewish Australians. Sarah Schwartz, like me,  is an anti-racist Jewish Australian. Sarah Schwartz  is a lawyer and writer focusing on the harms of police and prisons, Aboriginal deaths in custody and rebellious and movement lawyering, and is also executive officer of the pro-human rights Jewish Council of Australia that supports Palestinian human rights and condemns the Palestinian Genocide by genocidally racist Apartheid Israel, this presently involving 535,000 Gazan deaths so far from violence and deprivation (The Lancet). However she  has been subject to false defamation and smearing by Zionists, the pro-Zionist Coalition, and the pro-Zionist Murdoch media for correctly exposing Zionist support for the numerous obscene, racist and human rights-violating policies of the Coalition. In 2017 eminent lawyer Professor Gillian Triggs (made AC in 2025) stated that the then Coalition Government was  “ideologically opposed to human rights”.  The Zionist-perverted Labor and Coalition duopoly is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, and has weaponized alleged antisemitism in Australia to hide the horrific, US-backed Gaza Genocide. False defamation and intimidation of anti-racist Jewish Australians is real, damaging and utterly repugnant anti-Jewish anti-Semitism that is a stain on Australia.

26 January 2025. Invasion Day: the commencement of the Australian Aboriginal GenocideFor Indigenous Australians and anti-racist non-Indigenous Australians 26 January is Invasion Day marking the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788 and the commencement of the Australian Aboriginal Genocide. However for numerous thoughtless or racist Mainstream Australians 26 January is Australia Day that celebrates the creation of European Australia by over 2 centuries of  massacre, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing (2 million Indigenous deaths from violence,  dispossession, deprivation and disease). Just imagine if increasingly far-Right Germany decided to have the most important German National Day on the date of the horrific Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against German Jews throughout Nazi Germany on  9–10 November 1938 that lead to the 1939-1945 WW2 Jewish Holocaust (6 million people, my people, killed by violence and deprivation). Lest we forget that food-denying Australia was complicit in the 1942-1945 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians, my late wife’s people, starved to death by the British for strategic reasons). Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australia is also complicit in the ongoing, century-long  Palestinian Genocide (2.5 million Indigenous deaths from violence and deprivation) that includes the 2023-2025 Gaza Genocide (over 0.5 million Indigenous Palestinians killed so far, mostly children).

22 February 2025 – Letter to activists. Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel in 35 ways (treason) and ditto all but several non-Green MPs  who simply choose to accept Zionist falsehoods because that is what Zionazi-perverted America does and they are craven lackeys of genocidally racist, endlessly lying and  serial war criminal America (for detailed analysis see  Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/  and

Gideon Polya, “Gaza Massacre: 35 Ways Zionist-perverted US, Australia & West Lie For Child-killing, Neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 23 November 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/11/gaza-massacre-35-ways-zionist-perverted-us-australia-west-lie-for-child-killing-neo-nazi-apartheid-israel/    ).

23 January 2025. Politicians ignore the magnitude of the Gaza Genocide. According to epidemiological experts in the leading medical journal The Lancet, in the first 9 months of the Jewish Israeli massacre of Semitic Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza violent deaths totalled 64,260 and non-violent deaths from deprivation were 4 times that (257,040) for a total of 321,300 deaths. After 15.5 months Gazan deaths from violence and imposed deprivation total 553,350. In the impoverished Global South under-5 infant deaths are about 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation and it is estimated that the present 553,350 Gaza dead (24% of the 2.3 million pre-war Gaza population) include 393,000 children, 51,000 women and 113,000 men. While Australian Mainstream media and shamefully nearly all non-Green politicians ignore the magnitude of the Gaza Genocide they are instead overwhelming concerned with allegedly antisemitic graffiti and alleged “hate speech”, with Labor, Coalition and Zionist extremists calling for such alleged acts being dealt with as “terrorism”,  with draconian mandatory sentencing, and an end to the peaceful and inclusive weekly Sunday Rallies protesting the Gaza Genocide that notably involve anti-racist Jewish Australians such as myself. George Bernard Shaw: “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation”. Silence is complicity.   

22 January 2025. Australian Labor-Coalition Duopoly ignores anti-racist Jews and slavishly follows advice from Gaza Genocide-backing Zionists. Re Australia’s  “antisemitism summit”: The Labor Government and Coalition Opposition won’t take advice from eminent anti-racist Jewish Australians e.g. the former Governor-General Sir Isaac Isaacs  (“The honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism”), world-famous Professors Peter Singer and Dennis Altman and 33 other eminent anti-racist Jewish Australians (who denounced and renounced  the Jewish Israeli “Law of Return” that welcomes all non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jews (most Jews) to Palestine but rejects the Semitic Indigenous Palestinians) (Google “Jews Against Racist Zionism”), and indeed from true Orthodox Jews and the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia (a coalition of Jewish academics, lawyers, writers and antisemitism experts and founded to represent non-Zionist Australian Jews and oppose antisemitism and racism). Instead  they  slavishly follow advice from Gaza Genocide-backing Zionists who fervently support Australia-violating and child-killing Apartheid Israel and falsely defame anti-racist Jews by conflating Apartheid Israel with all Jews – egregious and intolerable anti-Jewish anti-Semitism.  

21 January 2025. Horribly real anti-Jewish anti-Semitism and anti-Arab anti-Semitism. The obscene  asymmetry of the Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide: 1,139 Israeli deaths on 7 October 2023 from the lightly-armed Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp and the indiscriminate, high explosive Jewish Israeli military response  versus an expertly estimated 553,000 Gazan deaths so far from bombing and deadly imposed deprivation or 24% of the pre-war Gaza population (The Lancet). As an anti-racist Jewish Australian scholar with numerous Muslim friends and relatives and a sole allegiance to Australia, I strongly object to the fervently pro-Apartheid Israel Zionists, Labor Government, Coalition Opposition and US-owned Murdoch media falsely defaming anti-racist Jews such as myself by mendaciously conflating horrific Jewish Israeli crimes with “the Jewish community” and hence all Australian Jews, 30% of whom are non-Zionists. This is egregious, damaging and horribly real anti-Jewish anti-Semitism and anti-Arab anti-Semitism that will be rejected by all decent Australians at the ballot box.

18 January 2025. Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways but a mountain of  Awful Truths  is resolutely ignored in US lackey Australia.  Deplorable arson attacks and graffiti by persons unknown have been weaponized by Apartheid Israel-supporting and hence Apartheid-supporting Zionists,  the Zionist-subverted Australian Labor Government and the Zionist-perverted Coalition to attack the human rights and freedom of speech of Australians. Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways but a mountain of  Awful Truths  is resolutely ignored in US lackey Australia. Australians don’t know that in Australia under Labor (1) only 19 MPs (the 15 Greens and 4 Independents) supported an immediate and permanent  Ceasefire in Gaza, (2) Australia abstained from the UNGA Resolution backing the ICJ ruling for rapid Israeli withdrawal from Gaza,  (3) Australia voted No for the annual UNGA Anti-Nazism Resolution, (4) the Coalition refuses to enforce ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, and Labor refuses to say, (5) presently  553,000 Semitic Indigenous Palestinian Gaza deaths from violence and imposed deprivation or 24% of the pre-war Gaza population, (6) 30% of Australian Jews aren’t Zionists, (7) the dominant Ashkenazi Jews aren’t Semitic (DNA), and (8)  numerous anti-racist Jews (like me) are totally opposed to the Palestinian Genocide by Apartheid Israel. Silence is complicity.

17 January 2025. Indirect deaths from imposed deprivation could be 4 times the direct deaths, this suggesting 128,520 x 5 = 642,600  Gazan deaths in total in 1.5 years of deadly siege and bombing or 28% of the pre-war Gaza population. A patriotic Jewish Australian child, I was indignant when a highly- esteemed mentor, a Jewish Hungarian refugee from Nazism, said that it could happen in Australia. It has. Under either Labor or the Coalition Australia is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel and its genocidal crimes but the unforgivable Coalition accuses cowardly, US lackey Labor of assisting “antisemitism”  by being insufficiently supportive of the 1.5 year Gaza Genocide. Reported in great detail in The Lancet, 64,260 Gazans were violently killed in the first  9 months this indicating 64,260 x 1.5/0.75 = 128,520 Gazans killed violently by “traumatic injury” in 1.5 years. Also reported in The Lancet, indirect deaths from imposed deprivation could be 4 times the direct deaths, this suggesting 128,520 x 5 = 642,600  Gazan deaths in total in 1.5 years of deadly siege and bombing or 28% of the pre-war Gaza population. Nazi is as Nazi does: there can be no social cohesion over mass murder of women and kids. Anti-racist Jewish American NYU professor Bertell Ollman (2004): “The  Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis.”

***15 January 2025. On 4 December 2024  I wrote to all Federal MPs saying that the Australian Government should  “order child- and  mother-killing  Apartheid Israel not to kill, injure or traumatize any more Australians or their family  members on pain of dire diplomatic and financial punishment. In response to the reported Russian execution of an Australian POW the Australian Labor Government has rightly summoned the Russian ambassador and the Coalition Opposition has indignantly demanded his expulsion if the report is true (ABC News). Australian media have also reported the killing of 4 non-combatant Australians by the IDF. Palestinian Australians of my acquaintance have tragically lost family members in Gaza. On 4 December 2024  I wrote to all Federal MPs saying that the Australian Government should  “order child- and  mother-killing  Apartheid Israel not to kill, injure or traumatize any more Australians or their family  members on pain of dire diplomatic and financial punishment”. There was no reply and the killing continues. A detailed report in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet (9 January 2025) reports the violent deaths of 64,260 Gazans in the first 9 months of the Gaza Genocide, and that expert epidemiologists estimate 4 times that number of indirect deaths from imposed deprivation (257,040). The killing should have stopped on 7 October 2023. Silence is complicity.

15 January 2025. My Letter to the Sydney Morning Herald was published in edited form (see below) together with 2 colour photos of the likely executed Melbourne school teacher  Oscar Jenkins – Gideon Polya, “Silence speaks volumes”, Sydney Morning Herald Letters, 15 January 2025: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/kean-s-bipartisan-approach-to-climate-change-sets-the-standard-20250115-p5l4gb.html .

Silence speaks volumes

In response to Russia’s reported execution of an Australian prisoner, the government has rightly summoned the Russian ambassador, and the opposition has demanded his expulsion (“All options on the table after reports of Australian’s death at Russia’s hands”, January 14). The response to the killings in Gaza couldn’t be more different, despite the reported deaths of four non-combatant Australians by the Israeli Defence Forces. Palestinian Australians I know have tragically lost family members in Gaza. Last month I wrote to all federal MPs saying that the government must impose diplomatic and financial sanctions on Israel if the killings continued. I received no reply, and the death toll keeps rising. Silence is complicity. Gideon Polya, Macleod (Vic)

10 January 2025. 64,260 Gaza deaths from traumatic injury in the 9 months since 7 October 2023 . A very important paper has just been published in the leading medical journal The Lancet that estimates 64,260 Gaza deaths from traumatic injury in the first 9 months of the Gaza Massacre (Zeina Jamaluddine, Hanan Abukmail, Sarah Aly, Oona M R Campbell, and Francesco Checchi, “Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis”, The Lancet, 9 January 2025: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02678-3/fulltext ).

Amazingly, an accurate account of this has been published in The Australian: “Lancet study estimates Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded” The Australian, 10 January 2025: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/lancet-study-estimates-gaza-death-toll-40-higher-than-recorded/news-story/fcb4547a32d14eea8035d8e88795b422 .

Letter to 9 major Australian Mainstream media under the Subject heading: “85,680 violent deaths in the first year of the Gaza Massacre”. Expert epidemiologists published a paper in the leading medical journal The Lancet (9 January 2025) estimating 64,260 Gaza deaths from traumatic injury in the 9 months since 7 October 2023. However applying an expert estimate of 4 indirect deaths per 1 direct death (Rashid et al, The Lancet, 10 July 2024) indicates 4 x 64,260 = 257,040 further deaths from imposed deprivation and a total of 321,300 Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation in the first 9 months of the Gaza Massacre. The Lancet estimate of 64,260 violent Gaza deaths in the first 9 months corresponds to 64,260 x 12/9 = 85,680 violent deaths in the first year of the Gaza Massacre. This indicates  5 x 85,680 = 428,000  deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in the first year of the Gaza Massacre, this including the estimated killing of 303,000 children, 40,000 women and 87,000 men.  Thou shalt not kill children. Lest we forget on Election Day 2025 that the unforgivable, Zionist-perverted and self-cursing Australian Labor Government, Coalition Opposition and like-minded MPs are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for genocidally racist, child-killing and anti-Arab and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Apartheid Israel in 30 ways. Silence is complicity. Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya [contact details].

9 January 2025. Those complicit in the  Gaza Genocide and Gaza Urbicide – the perpetrators, Apartheid Israel supporters and the Silent - have cursed themselves, this self-imposed curse being endlessly renewed on seeing their reflection, at the going down of the sun and in the morning.The Australian Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, lies for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, and in supporting Apartheid Israel supports the vile crime of Apartheid. The Coalition Opposition is comprehensively even worse. However after  the  attack on a non-Zionist, Orthodox Jewish Melbourne synagogue by persons unknown, the ICC-sought war criminal Netanyahu falsely asserted that “It is impossible to separate the reprehensible arson attack from the [Australian] federal government’s extreme anti-Israeli position… Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”. Yet the  cowardly,  Zionist-perverted and Australia-trashing Labor Government  refuses to say whether it will comply with the ICC arrest warrants, and has dispatched  its Jewish Zionist Attorney-General to placate the Jewish Israeli mass murderers of children, mothers and women (Professor Devi Sridhar, chair, global health, University of Edinburgh: 340,000 Gazans, mostly children, killed through violence and imposed deprivation by 1 January 2025). Anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians will utterly reject Labor and the Coalition. Those complicit in the  Gaza Genocide and Gaza Urbicide – the perpetrators, Apartheid Israel supporters and the Silent - have cursed themselves, this self-imposed curse being endlessly renewed on seeing their reflection, at the going down of the sun and in the morning.

9 January 2025. Those complicit in the  Gaza Genocide and Gaza Urbicide – the perpetrators, Apartheid Israel supporters and the Silent - have cursed themselves. The Australian Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, lies for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, and in supporting Apartheid Israel supports the vile crime of Apartheid. The Coalition Opposition is comprehensively even worse. However after  the  attack on a non-Zionist, Orthodox Jewish Melbourne synagogue by persons unknown, the ICC-sought war criminal Netanyahu falsely asserted that “It is impossible to separate the reprehensible arson attack from the [Australian] federal government’s extreme anti-Israeli position… Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”. Yet the  cowardly,  Zionist-perverted and Australia-trashing Labor Government  refuses to say whether it will comply with the ICC arrest warrants, and has dispatched  its Jewish Zionist Attorney-General to placate the Jewish Israeli mass murderers of children, mothers and women (Professor Devi Sridhar, chair, global health, University of Edinburgh: 340,000 Gazans, mostly children, killed through violence and imposed deprivation by 1 January 2025). Anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians will utterly reject Labor and the Coalition. Those complicit in the  Gaza Genocide and Gaza Urbicide – the perpetrators, Apartheid Israel supporters and the Silent - have cursed themselves, this self-imposed curse being endlessly renewed on seeing their reflection, at the going down of the sun and in the morning.

3 January 2025. US & Israeli nuclear terrorism. Humanity and the Biosphere are existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and climate change.  US President-elect Donald Trump has recently demanded US ownership of Greenland, Panama and Canada, but US lackey Australia is already the 51st state, hosting thousands of US Marines, and planning to host 6 nuclear-armed US B52s and nuclear-armed US submarines. Former Australian PM Paul Keating warned that “[AUKUS] is likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States”. However eminent Australian diplomat and foreign affairs expert John Lander averred:“Keating was wrong. Australia is already the 51st state of the US”. Humanity and the Biosphere are existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and climate change (Professor Stephen Hawking) but the Labor-Coalition Duopoly has made Australia (1) deeply complicit in US nuclear terrorism, horrific US war crimes, and the US-backed Gaza Genocide (involving mass murder of children, mothers and women by nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel), (2) a prime nuclear target, and (3) a leading climate criminal country (Australia with 0.3% of the World’s population has annual Domestic plus Exported greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution that is 5 % of the World’s total annual GHG emissions). Ignorance is no excuse, silence is complicity, and those supporting AUKUS and the Labor-Coalition Duopoly have utterly betrayed children, Australia, Humanity and the dying Biosphere.

2 January 2025. Those complicit in the ongoing Gaza Genocide (the perpetrators, Zionists, pro-Zionists and the Silent) have utterly cursed themselves, the self-imposed curse being endlessly renewed at the going down of the sun and in the morning. Shortly after  7.30 pm in mid-October 1975 I was home alone with my mother-in-law, Habiban, watching Graeme Perkin, editor of The Age, being interviewed by a top  ABC TV journalist who asked him about the Khemlani loans affair  that contributed to the US- and UK-connived Whitlam Labor Government Dismissal on Remembrance Day 1975:  “If you had known that reports about Khemlani were false would you have still published them on the front page of The Age?”  Graeme Perkin replied “Yes”.  I jumped to my feet and cursed Graeme Perkin with great vehemence. At 7.00 am the  next day my clock radio woke me  with the ABC News lead item: “Graeme Perkin, editor of The Age, is dead” . Did my curse kill Graeme Perkin? Of course not, but his conscience may have. Similarly, Chinese New Year prophecies may be somewhat self-fulfilling because of 1.5 billion Chinese being somewhat influenced. All those complicit in the Jewish Israeli mass murder of Palestinian children, mothers and women in the ongoing Gaza Genocide (the perpetrators, Zionists, pro-Zionists and the Silent) have utterly cursed themselves, the self-imposed curse being endlessly renewed at the going down of the sun and in the morning.

31 December 2024. Defamation laws, censorship.  Those complicit in Apartheid Israel’s  Gaza Genocide (the perpetrators,  Zionists, the Silent) have cursed themselves, this curse being renewed from the going down of the sun and in the morning. In Australia defamation laws confine free speech to the extremely rich, and there is savage custodial and pecuniary punishment for supporting banned organizations, flying banned flags and exhibiting banned symbols that the Labor-Coalition Duopoly doesn’t like. Indeed the Duopoly has adumbrated urgent legislation to ban or restrict use of certain words and phrases in the interests of “social cohesion” aka ignoring the mass murder of Palestinian children, mothers and women (340,000 Gazans killed since 7 October 2023 according to UK-published, epidemiological reports ignored by Mainstream Australia). Conversely, 9 News published a list of the “best and worst of 2024” that failed to mention the Gaza Genocide (The Age, 30/12) and The Australian offered an editorial (30/12) that commenced with the egregious falsehood “Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy” (prior to 7/10/2023, about 7.7 million Indigenous Palestinians were 51% of the Subjects of Apartheid Israel but only the 2.1 million Israeli Palestinians could vote for the government ruling them, albeit as Third Class citizens under 65 race-based discriminatory laws). Those complicit in Apartheid Israel’s  Gaza Genocide (the perpetrators,  Zionists, the Silent) have cursed themselves, this curse being renewed from the going down of the sun and in the morning.

[Some references: (1).  Psalms 113:1-3 (King James Version) says “Praise the Lord…  FROM the rising of the sun to its setting” .

(2). Joshua 1:3-4 may have inspired  the present-day Zionazi –asserted “right “ to bomb  and occupy between the Nile and the Euphrates: “3 Every place that the sole of your feet will tread upon I have given to you , as I promised to Moses. 4. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea TOWARD the going down of the sun shall be your territory”.  

(3). “The Ode” from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon: “AT the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.” ]

23 December 2024. Australian human rights and Australian academic freedom are under Zionist attack. In 2013 Julie Bishop (now Chancellor of ANU) declared that an incoming Coalition Government would ban funding to academics and universities tolerating deemed “antisemitism”, a position criticized as an attack on “academic freedom”. However under both Coalition  and Labor Australia is a member of  the International Holocaust Remembrance  Alliance (IHRA) that is manifestly anti-Arab anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic  (by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim critics of Apartheid Israel as assertedly  “antisemitic” ) and holocaust denying (ignoring  all WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust). Now the fervently pro-Israel  Victorian Labor Government  plans a no doubt Zionist-informed “pledge” that individuals  and institutions  must sign before  receiving government funding. However fervently Coalition-backed but ICC-sought war criminal Netanyahu has declared that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”. The Occupied Palestinians are excluded by Apartheid Israel from all the human rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and now Australian human rights and Australian academic freedom are under Zionist attack. Wake up Australia – listen to the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia and patriotic anti-racist Jews such as myself before it is too late.

19 December 2024. By New Year’s Day 2025 about 340,000 Gazans (15% of the pre-war population and mostly children) will have been killed by Jewish Israeli-imposed violence and deprivation. About 2,000 years ago Jewish King Herod allegedly massacred all under-2 male Palestinian children in and about Bethlehem in the hopefully fictional Massacre of the Innocents (Holy Bible, Matthew 2.16). It is expertly estimated that by New Year’s Day 2025 about 340,000 Gazans (15% of the pre-war population and mostly children) will have been killed by Jewish Israeli-imposed violence and deprivation (eminent Professor Devi Sridhar, chair, global health, University of Edinburgh). The perpetrators and those complicit in this unforgivable atrocity through support of genocidal Apartheid Israel or through Silence have departed from decent Humanity and have utterly cursed themselves, their self-imposed curse being endlessly renewed every time they see their reflection and at the going down of the sun and in the morning.

18 December 2024. Both Labor and Coalition approve nuclear-armed US bombers and submarines being based in a prime nuclear target Australia, and fervently back nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel. World-famous physicist  Stephen Hawking on key existential threats to Humanity and the Biosphere: “We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change”. However the Australian Labor Government has approved massive new coal and gas exploitation, and the Coalition Opposition plans massive greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution through the GHG-intensive building, supplying and servicing of 7 nuclear power stations, keeping coal-fired power stations running, and massively expanding gas use. Both Labor and Coalition approve nuclear-armed US bombers and submarines being based in a prime nuclear target Australia, and fervently back nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel and hence its appalling Gaza Genocide and saturation bombing and invasion of Syria and Lebanon. Voters: put the dangerously anti-science Coalition last and Labor  second last.    

17 December 2024. Undercount & Occupied/ Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio of 40,000 Gazans/1,139 Israelis = 35 or 300,000 Gazans/1,139 Israelis = 263 for the Gaza Genocide. Famed American numbers-driven consumer advocate and self-described “moral empiricist”, Ralph Nader, has cited expert epidemiological findings in commenting trenchantly on the “undercounting”  of Gaza Genocide deaths in an article entitled “Exposing the Gaza Death Undercount. 40,000? It’s more like 300,000 – treachery on both sides” that has been placed on the US Congressional Record. Using this data one can calculate an Occupied/ Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio of 40,000 Gazans/1,139 Israelis = 35 or 300,000 Gazans/1,139 Israelis = 263 for the Gaza Genocide as compared to that of 10 ordered by Hitler and immediately effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Rome.  Message to pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel and pro-Apartheid Labor, Coalition and their supporters: Nazi is as Nazi does.  

16 December 2024. Driven by Zionist lies, exceptionalism and “fear hysteria”, Zionist-subverted governments have proposed  tough laws banning  anti-Israel and anti-genocide sentiment as “hate speech”. Although the perpetrators have not yet been identified, the victimless synagogue and car arson outrages have been officially categorized as “terrorism” with draconian investigational and sentencing implications. Driven by Zionist lies, exceptionalism and “fear hysteria”, Zionist-subverted governments have proposed  tough laws banning  anti-Israel and anti-genocide sentiment as “hate speech” and that weekly city protests against the Gaza  Genocide will be banned or constrained. Ignored by terror- and hate-obsessed Mainstream media and non-Green politicians,  by  end of year  340,000 Gazans, mostly children,  will have died from Jewish Israeli-imposed violence and deprivation (Professor Devi Sridhar, Edinburgh). Non-violence is the only  way but one ponders the fate in Australia  for wonderful Jesus if He returned, whipped the money lenders, and reiterated: “And whosoever shall offend ONE of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.”  Silence is complicity.  

13 December 2024. Threatened ban on pro-Palestinian protests in Australian cities. Australia’s Antisemitism Envoy advocates a ban on pro-Palestinian protests in Australian cities: “The cities should not be utilised for that. There should be places designated away from where the Jewish community might venture, where people can demonstrate. That is not to in any way attack the right of people to express their views, but at some point, [holding protests] every single week becomes intimidatory in the city” (SBS). I strongly disagree with this proposed censorship. As a pro-peace,  anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist, scholar and  humanitarian I have attended most of the Melbourne Sunday Gaza Rallies that have been held every Sunday since the 7 October 2023 Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp (12 noon, Victorian State Library) and carry a highly visible, 2-sided placard that reads WORLD: END PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE, ZIONISM  and BOYCOTT APARTHEID ISRAEL, LABOR, LIBS (see  The Age 8/12). I and other anti-Zionist Jews feel absolutely safe among 5,000-40,000 mostly indignant Palestinian, Arab and Muslim protesters. The Rallies are peaceful, speakers often include anti-Zionist Jews, Jewish attendees feel perfectly safe and are routinely warmly applauded by the speakers and the Rally attendees. Violence, hate and antisemitism are extremely strongly condemned by the organizers.

[for a photo of the placard see Michael Bachelard and Carla Jaeger, “Protests to go on ‘until liberation’, say pro-Palestinian rally organisers”, The Age, 8 December 2024:  https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/protests-to-go-on-until-liberation-say-pro-palestinian-organisers-20241208-p5kwqj.html  ].

12 December 2024. Synagogue arson and Zionist Orwellian perversion threatens human rights of Australians. Labor, Coalition and Teal politicians have been subverted by Zionists to accept war criminal Netanyahu’s false assertions that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism” and that saturation bombing of Gaza, Lebanon and now of recently liberated Syria is warranted because of “terrorism”. However this Orwellian perversion threatens human rights of Australians: (i) moves to prohibit protests in the vicinity of places of worship will curb peaceful anti-genocide protests like the weekly Sunday Gaza Rallies in Melbourne; (ii) promised tougher laws against asserted “hate speech” and “antisemitism” threaten the free speech of pro-human rights and anti-genocide Australians; (iii) officially denoting deplorable but injury-free actions as “terrorism” means draconian fines and imprisonment for graffiti and free speech as well as for criminal arson and conspiracy; (iv) Zionist perverted Australian governments ignore deadly US, US Alliance, Australian  and Apartheid Israeli anti-Arab anti-Semitism  (against Arabs and Muslims) and false and damaging anti- Jewish anti-Semitism (against anti-racist Jews falsely defamed as assertedly “antisemitic”); and (v) horrific perceptional disproportionality e.g. zero killed or injured in Israel-linked arson and graffiti denoted as “terrorism” versus 273,000 Gazan killed in year 1 of the Australia-complicit and Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre, this including 194,000 children, 25,000 women and 54,000 men.

11 December 2024. Letter to Crikey re Bernard Keane article, synagogue arson and  Netanyahu’s “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”.   Excellent article by Bernard Keane. Like all decent Australians the anti-racist, anti-Apartheid, anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian human rights Jewish Council of Australia, Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network, Australian Greens and Australian Socialists have unequivocally condemned the utterly deplorable arson attack on the Melbourne synagogue. However while the core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth, ICC-sought war criminal and liar Netanyahu has falsely accused the Labor Government of being “extreme anti-Israel”, falsely stating that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism” (in reality the Labor Government fervently supports Apartheid Israel, is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways) . The Zionist-perverted  Coalition Opposition and  racist Zionists (a) echoed Netanyahu in likewise attributing the arson to Labor’s UNGA vote for an end to the Occupation, “terrorism”, “hate speech”,  and pro-human rights protesters supposedly damaging “social cohesion”, and (b)  together  with Zionist-subverted Labor, propose further severe constraints on Australian freedom of speech in the interests of an Australia-violating, Australian-killing and International Law-violating Apartheid Israel. Ex-CIA Philip Agee in “Inside the Company. CIA Diary” describes how his CIA colleagues bombed Ecuador churches to excite anti-Communism. CIA-backed Gladio did likewise in Europe. Who was responsible?  Zionists benefit enormously from the synagogue arson.

9 December 2024. Zionists benefit enormously from the synagogue arson. Like all decent Australians the anti-racist, anti-Apartheid, anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian human rights Jewish Council of Australia, Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network, Australian Greens and Australian Socialists have unequivocally condemned the deplorable arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue. However while the core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth, ICC-sought war criminal and liar Netanyahu has falsely accused the Labor Government of being “extreme anti-Israel”, stating that “anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”. The Zionist-perverted  Coalition Opposition and  racist Zionists (a) likewise attribute the arson to Labor’s UNGA vote for an end to the Occupation, “terrorism”, “hate speech”,  and pro-human rights protesters supposedly damaging “social cohesion”, and (b)  together  with Zionist-subverted Labor, propose further severe constraints on Australian freedom of speech in the interests of an Australia-violating, Australian-killing and International Law-violating Apartheid Israel. Ex-CIA Philip Agee in “Inside the Company. CIA Diary” describes how his CIA colleagues bombed Ecuador churches to excite anti-Communism while his unexciting job was to bribe Ecuador government, opposition and trade union “assets” ( this immediately indicating Australian CIA “assets” like the CIA-praised “two Bobs”). CIA-backed Gladio did likewise in Europe. Cui bono? Traitorous Zionists benefit enormously from the synagogue arson (cc MPs, NACC, AFP, Victoria Police).

7 December 2024. Synagogue arson and anti-racist Australian Jews that condemn Apartheid Israel. Western  media followed Australian Mainstream media in reporting (a) the deplorable arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue (it survived albeit damaged and nobody was killed or significantly injured) and (b) ICC-sought war criminal  Netanyahu (“Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism”), like-minded  Zionist fanatics, and the fervently  pro-Zionist Coalition Opposition falsely linking this to falsely asserted “antisemitism” of the Australian Labor Government (actually fervently pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid) and to pro-Palestinian human rights demonstrations (notably massive rallies at held at 12 pm, Victorian State Library every Sunday since the 7 October 2023 Palestinian Breakout from the 57-year Gaza Concentration Camp incarceration). Remorselessly ignored is a large body of anti-racist Australian Jews that condemn Apartheid Israel’s horrific crimes (notably the Jewish Council of Australia and eminent Jewish Australian scholars), the horrific deaths  in the Gaza Genocide (273,000 Gazans, mostly children, killed by violence and imposed deprivation in 1 year  as estimated by Professor Devi Sridhar, global health, Edinburgh), and Zionist destruction  of 530 villages and over 120 mosques (most recently the Great Omari Mosque of Gaza  that dated back to Roman times). Genocidal Zionists benefit from the synagogue arson. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.

6 December 2024. Gaza Genocide, Synagogue arson. The World must stop the Genocide and Occupation NOW. Everybody utterly deplores the burning of the Melbourne synagogue, recalling the 1938 Kristallnacht atrocity in Nazi Germany that unleashed pogroms against Jews and launched the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by violence and imposed deprivation, including many of my Jewish Hungarian relatives). Back in 2001 the Brisbane mosque of my Muslim in-laws was burned down due to post-9/11 Islamophobic hysteria. According to the Brown University Cost of War project Muslim deaths from violence and deprivation in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan totalled 4.7 million. Over  4 millennia culturally important Gaza  was involved in the extraordinary  advance of civilization in the Fertile Crescent, shipped  the “perfumes of Arabia” to the Roman Empire, and played an important part in the transmission of Indian-Arabic learning to Europe in the 11th – 15th centuries CE (William Dalrymple). However 50% of Gaza’s archaeological sites have been damaged or destroyed including the Great Omari Mosque that dated to Roman times. In 1 year 273,000 Gazans have been killed (Professor Devi Sridhar, Edinburgh), 15%  of the pre-war population, and including 195,000 children. The World must stop the Genocide and Occupation NOW. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.

5 December 2024. Despite UNGA end Occupation vote, Labor: say “Sorry” for 77 years of anti-Arab anti-Semitism  The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is grossly violated by the racism and mendacity of the Zionist perverted and US lackey Labor-Coalition Duopoly. The 1947 Resolution 181 of the UNGA detailed a 2-state  proposition for Palestine but the West has rejected this for 77 years by refusing to recognize the Indigenous Palestinian state. Faced with looming defeat and the electoral reality that decent Australians cannot vote for Gaza Genocide complicity,  a desperate Labor has finally broken ranks with the unspeakably awful Coalition  and joined 157 nations in demanding an immediate end to the war criminal and genocidal Occupation. Something is better than nothing, but decent Australia demands of Labor: say “Sorry” for 77 years of anti-Arab anti-Semitism (rejection of  Palestinian statehood and human rights) and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism (falsely conflating the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel with all Jews including anti-racist Jews such as myself). Addressed by world-famous  writer Susan Abulhawa (“300,000 [Gazans killed] in one year”),  the prestigious Oxford Union Debate recently overwhelmingly  declared Israel an “apartheid state responsible for genocide”.  The ABC bans use of “apartheid “ and “genocide” in describing  this unforgivable atrocity (195,000 Gaza children killed in the first year).

4 December 2024. Labor Government must support an immediate and permanent end to the Gaza Genocide (5 demands). Under Labor or the Coalition Australia is second only to the Zionist-subverted and serial war criminal US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel and hence of the vile crime of apartheid that is condemned as a crime against  Humanity by the International Convention on the Suppression  and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Labor and the Coalition traitorously lie for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. The Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways. The ICC and ICJ have condemned Apartheid Israeli war crimes. The Labor Government must (1) demand an immediate and permanent end to the Gaza Genocide and the 57-year Occupation with full reparations, (2) order child- and  mother-killing  Apartheid Israel not to kill, injure or traumatize any more Australians or their family  members on pain of dire diplomatic and financial punishment, (3) prosecute  traitorous Zionists egregiously violating Australian institutions and Australians, including  innocent Jewish children subject to intellectual child abuse by Zionazi teachers, (4) apply BDS against Apartheid Israel and all its racist supporters, and (5) remove Australia from the anti-Arab anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and holocaust-ignoring  IHRA that is condemned by over 40 anti-racist  Jewish organizations (cc all Federal MPs).

3 December 2024. Gaza demands quantitation of racist-imposed inequality from “2 Wongs don’t make a White” to Death Ration. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate. The horrific, US-backed, Australia-complicit, and Jewish Israeli-imposed  genocide in Gaza demands quantitation of racist-imposed inequality. The 1776 US Declaration of Independence by white American men declared “All men are created equal” but what about women, slaves, Indigenous people, and non-Europeans then and now? Australia’s first PM Edmund Barton enunciated a racist inequality (1901): “The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of an Englishman and the Chinaman”. Labor politician Arthur Calwell  (1947) put a number to White Australian racism: “Two Wongs don’t make a White”.  Nazi leader Adolph Hitler ordered an Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death  Ratio of 10 that was effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Cave massacre in Rome. Jump 8 decades and the Brown University Cost of War project determined 4.7 million Muslim deaths versus 4,700 US Alliance deaths in the post-9/11 War on Terror (Death Ratio 1,000). The Death Ratio has been 21 (Gaza 2008-6 October 2023),  642 (first year of the present Gaza Genocide), and about 700 ( Australian Aboriginal Genocide). Anti-racist Australian voters will put the genocide-complicit Coalition and Labor last and demand Nuremberg-style war crimes trials.

2 December 2024. Vital free speech is under attack in the UK and Australia. In Sydney a pro-human rights, Arab Australian businessman is facing life-changing custodial and pecuniary sentencing for condemning Nazi-like Israeli war crimes (notably mass murder of children, mothers and women) by exhibiting  an Israeli flag with the blue  Star of David  replaced by a blue swastika. In Sydney a young,  pro-human rights, Arab Australian woman has been charged and is facing similar life-devastating punishment for exhibiting the flag of a major anti-racist and anti-Zionist Lebanese political party. In the UK prominent Jewish left-wing writer and anti-genocide and pro-human rights activist Tony Greenstein has been charged over opinion under the Terrorism Act 2000. Vital free speech is under attack in the UK and Australia. Fortunately  the Greens and the Coalition forced the Australian Labor  Government to withdraw proposed misinformation legislation that would have empowered a government agency, ACMA, to punish any expression of opinion it didn’t like. Fervent Labor and Coalition support for Apartheid Israel and hence for apartheid and the Gaza Genocide (Professor Devi Sridhar, Edinburgh: over 0.3 million killed by violence and imposed deprivation) asks Australian voters: who to put last? Coalition leader Peter Dutton’s powerful defence of free speech as crucial for democracy instructs: put Labor last.  

29 November 2024. Zionazism: Nazi is as Nazi does. Terrorist is as terrorist does. As a Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian scholar and scientist with a sole allegiance to the land of my birth, Australia, I am inescapably bound by love of country and by the core moral messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (and from 70 other genocide and holocaust atrocities), to whit “zero tolerance for racism”, “zero tolerance for lying”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. In furtherance of these imperatives, over 3 decades I have published about 1,000 huge, science-informed and exhaustively referenced humanitarian articles and 9 huge books. However for nearly 2 decades I have been rendered “invisible” in Zionist-perverted Australia. Since 7 October 2023 Gaza has been reduced to uninhabitable rubble by massive bombing (75,000 tons of US-supplied bombs) and deadly substantial exclusion from water, food, shelter, winter clothing, sanitation, electricity, medicine and medical care, with an estimated 366,000 (16% of the pre-war population and mostly children) killed in the first year from violence and imposed deprivation versus 1,139 Israelis. Zionism is Nazism without gas chambers but with mass murder of children, mothers, women and men. Re unforgivable Apartheid Israeli Zionazism: Nazi is as Nazi does. Terrorist is as terrorist does. Silence is complicity.

28 November 2024. Under-16 media ban: Australians can expect further banning of articles, books. In a process of massive censorship applied to all Australians by the Labor Government and Coalition Opposition duopoly, under-16 Australians will be excluded from social media and all other Australians will be excluded unless they  risk financial and other  abuse  by giving their personal data to major data-mining  American media giants. Elon Musk: “Fascists”.  Australians can expect further banning of articles, books, newspapers, magazines, individuals, journalists, organizations, flags, symbols, and indeed any commentary the Labor-Coalition duopoly dislikes. There are numerous precedents for such censorship of truth-telling Australians  e.g. of Australian journalism giants Wilfred Burchett, John Pilger, and Julian Assange. Censorship is lying by omission that’s far worse than repugnant lying by commission that at least permits public refutation and debate crucial for democracy. Professor James Hansen (Columbia) wants the existentially climate change-threatened  young to create a Third Way alternative to  flagrantly lying Western political duopolies. The climate criminal, Zionist-subverted and egregiously lying Australian Labor Government supports terracidal expansion of coal and gas extraction, Apartheid Israel and hence neo-Nazi Apartheid – it’s complicit in the  Gaza Genocide (0.3 million killed) in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Lied to kids: revolution now, duopoly out.

26 November 2024. Damage-related Carbon Debt increasing at $16 trillion pa, COP29 offers paltry up to $300 billion pa by 2035 versus estimated  $15 trillion for ICJ-demanded Reparations for Palestinians. Experts from Cambridge and Columbia Universities independently estimated a damage-related Carbon Price of $200 per tonne of CO2-equivalent, whereas the world average applied Carbon Price is a miniscule $2 per tonne of CO2-equivalent (IMF). Lord Stern: “Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen”. The consequent gigantic and remorselessly increasing Carbon Debt will inescapably have to be paid by young people and future generations. While the Global South demands climate action, global Carbon Debt is $250 trillion, increasing by $16 trillion each year. Carbon Debt is $5 trillion for climate criminal Australia, increasing by $600 billion per year and  by $40,000 per head per year for under-30 year old Australians (USD). With global damage-related Carbon Debt increasing at $16 trillion pa, COP29 utterly failed by agreeing on climate financing for Developing Countries of only up to $300 billion per year (over 50 times less) by 2035.By way of comparison, ICJ-demanded Reparations for the 57-year Occupation and the century-long Palestinian Genocide (2.5 million deaths from violence, 0.1 million, and imposed deprivation) at $1 million per head for 15 million impoverished and sorely oppressed Exiled, Occupied and Israeli Palestinians would total $15 trillion.

25 November 2024. ICC arrest warrants: arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they enter Australia. The Coalition Opposition and fanatical Zionist supporters of Australia-violating Apartheid Israel have condemned the ICC arrest warrants for child-, mother- and women-killing Netanyahu and Gallant. The cowardly,  Zionist-subverted and US lackey Labor Government won’t commit to acting on these ICC arrest warrants, possibly because 2002 legislation under PM John Howard gave the Attorney General the power to veto such action. In stark contrast, the international law-respecting and humane Australian Greens support strong Australian action on these ICC arrest warrants, and the like-minded Australian Jewish Council similarly “Calls on the Government to immediately cut all military ties and place sanctions on Israel. The Albanese Government must also place travel bans on those suspected of war crimes and clarify that it will arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they enter Australia”. Professor Janina Dill (international law, University of Oxford): “Any state that diplomatically or materially supports Israel's war in Gaza risks supporting crimes against humanity and war crimes”.  Over 300,000 Gazans have been killed, mostly children (Professor Devi Sridhar, global health, University of Edinburgh). Decent Australians will utterly reject the  Zionist-perverted Coalition Opposition and Labor Government duopoly for unforgivable complicity in genocide and trashing of Australia’s international standing.  

22 November 2024. Arrest warrants for Palestinian-starving Netanyahu and Gallant. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Palestinian-starving Netanyahu and Gallant. The ICJ has ruled that Israeli Occupation, annexations and theft of resources are illegal, involve criminal apartheid, and that Israel must end its Occupation, dismantle its settlements, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims and facilitate the return of displaced people. The ICJ will shortly rule on the blatantly obvious, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza through intentional deprivation of life-preserving requisites, forced population expulsions, US-enabled saturation bombing  and mass murder of children, women and mothers (UK expert: over 300,000 Gazans killed). Australia is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel and hence of the crime of Apartheid. Birchgrove Legal endorsed by over 100 lawyers has referred PM Albanese  to the ICC for “complicity in genocide”. The Australian Labor Government (backed by the Coalition Opposition) is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, lies for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, falsely conflates numerous anti-racist Jewish Australians with Israeli crimes (anti-Jewish anti-Semitism) and falsely smears anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim critics of Apartheid Israel as anti-Semitic (anti-Arab and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism). Australians  supporting Labor or the Coalition are complicit in genocide.

21 November 2024. The NACC (Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission) sets a gigantic hurdle for public accountability . A NSW premier felt compelled to resign over failing to remember the gift of a $3,000 bottle of wine in giving evidence to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption  (ICAC). However in deciding not to investigate the Robodebt Scandal (the subject of a Royal Commission and costing the taxpayer $0.6 billion) the NACC sets a gigantic hurdle for public accountability. I made 5 detailed Submissions to the NACC (pertinent financial and other costs in brackets): (1) Australian Labor Government’s lying for Apartheid Israel (annual Australia-protecting ASIO budget $0.6 billion), (2) huge but ignored war crimes of Australian politicians (6 million Occupied Afghan avoidable deaths from deprivation indicative of gross US Alliance violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention), (3) corporations and  governments ignore  huge  and inescapable Carbon Debt (at a Carbon Price of $300 per tonne CO2, Australia’s total Carbon Debt is $7 trillion and increasing at $650 billion each year), (4) huge and fraudulent university fees exposed by the on-line teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic (the student HECS/HELP debt totals $78 billion), and (5) Mainstream media lying (annual ABC budget $1.2 billion). With the possible exception of (1) all were rejected.

20 November 2024. Australian Labor Government’s anti-Arab and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism. Jews Against The Occupation ’48  (an esteemed anti-racist Jewish Australian organization) wrote to the leadership of the Australian Labor Government  “to mark the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip”. The Letter was endorsed  by 40 organizations and by 360 individuals, some very eminent Australians. They received no reply. Quotes: “We have been hoping and waiting in vain. Nothing in the past twelve months has propelled you into meaningful action. No number of Palestinian children killed or maimed and traumatised for life; no number of Palestinians, including minors, tortured and raped in Israeli prisons and detention camps; no number of civilians driven from place to desolate place in forced evacuations… None of these egregious crimes has awoken any humanitarian impulse… None of it has prompted any recourse to appropriate diplomatic response… We want to know why you have not implemented the most peaceful and effective way of bringing this hellish catastrophe to an end: a complete boycott, sanctions and divestment policy on Israel?”Gaza Genocide-complicit, pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Labor’s anti-Arab and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism means that this Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian can never vote Labor again. The Coalition is even worse.

19 November 2024. “Journalists killed per year per million of population”  73 (Gaza) versus  0.0084 (World). Altruism toward  fellow humans diminishes with increasing distance and this is shockingly evidenced by the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza by Jewish Israelis while the World and pro-Apartheid Israel and US lackey Australia simply  look on and the Biden/Harris Administration continues to supply the bombs - 75,000 tons in the first year in which 366,000  Gazans were killed by violence and imposed deprivation (Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh). One might hope that voice-privileged  Australian journalists would have great concern for the lives of (a) the medical professionals who keep them and their loved ones alive and well, and (b) fellow journalists who ideally serve an informed democracy. Yet shamefully unreported by Australian media, (a) “health workers killed per year per million of population” is 435 (Gaza) versus  0.060 (the World), and (b)  “journalists killed per year per million of population”  is 73.0 (Gaza) as compared to the 1993-2023 average of 0.0084 (the World). However the Silence is Deafening about these unforgivable horrors of the ongoing Gaza Massacre except for just a few journalists still working for Australian Mainstream media, notably A, J, M and P (space and job-preserving circumspection prevent further identification).  

18 November 2024. Zionism as practised by Apartheid Israel is genocidal racism. In Orwell’s “1984” Big Brother stated that (a) “war is peace”, (b) “ignorance is strength”, (c) “slavery is freedom” and  (d) “2 plus 2 does not equal 4”,  but this has become a reality in a Zionist-subverted Australia with a cowardly and Zionist-perverted Labor Government and a ferociously Zionist Coalition Opposition. Zionism as practised by Apartheid Israel is genocidal racism, egregious Orwellian lying, and Nazism without  gas chambers but with horrendous massacres, mass population expulsions, ethnic cleansing, high technology military forces and industry, denial of the human rights of  assertedly “sub-human” conquered Subjects, 90 nuclear weapons, Goebbelsian lying, and  mass murder of children, women and mothers. The Zionists and the Zionist Labor-Coalition duopoly falsely assert that (a) Zionist occupiers but not their victims  have the right to defend themselves, (b) racist censorship and lying promote “social cohesion”, and (c) total destruction of the Gaza Concentration Camp means inmate freedom from “terrorism”, together with (d) comprehensive ignoring of the horrific death toll in the first year of the Gaza Massacre – 366,000 killed including 267,000 children, 31,000 women and 71,000 men (from Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh). Decent Australians will utterly reject the unforgivable, traitorous and Zionist-perverted  Labor-Coalition duopoly.  

16 November 2024. an expert and humane assessment of the Gaza Genocide.  Despite the saturation Mainstream media coverage of Zionist and  politician hysteria, Christmas has not been “cancelled”  for children wishing to see the Myers Christmas display – they can readily see it unimpeded without the Zionist mass murder of children in Gaza disturbing their enjoyment in the slightest. Overwhelmingly unreported by Western media, Professor Devi Sridhar (University of Edinburgh) on the Gaza Massacre (5/9/2024): “The total deaths since the conflict began would be estimated at about 335,500 in total”. Noting that under-5 infant deaths are 70% of  avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries (see my huge book “Body Count. Global  avoidable mortality since 1950”), this translates to 366,000 deaths in the first year since 7/10/2023, including 267,000 children, 31,000 women and 71,000 men.If your colleagues want an expert and humane assessment of the Gaza Genocide they could attend the weekly Sunday Rally for Gaza (12 noon, every Sunday since 7/10/2023, State Library of Victoria). With other anti-racist Jewish Australians, I will be there, quite safe among thousands of distressed Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Australians who have lost family to genocidal Zionists. My highly visible, 2-sided  placard says: “World: Stop Palestinian Genocide, Zionism” and “Boycott Apartheid Israel, Labor, Libs”.      

12 November 2024. Horrific Gaza versus Sharpeville deaths statistics - stop the killing and the Occupation immediately. Numbers matter and the horrific Gaza statistics below demand that the World must stop the killing and the Occupation immediately.

1(a). “Journalists  killed per year” is 168 (Gaza)  versus the average of 82 per year for the World (2013-2023).

1(b). “Journalists killed per year per million of population”  is 73.0 (Gaza) as compared to the 1993-2023 average of 0.0084 (the World).

2(a).  “Children killed per year” is 267,000 (Gaza) versus 2,985 children killed per year across 24 countries of the World in 2022.

2(b). “Children  killed per year per million of entity population” is 116,807 (Gaza) versus 0.38 (the World in 2022).

3(a). “Health workers killed per year”  is 1,000 (Gaza) versus 480 for the World.

3(b). “Health workers killed per year per million of population” is 435 (Gaza) versus  0.060 (the World).

4(a). “Aid workers killed per year” is 321 (Gaza) versus 280 aid workers killed in 33 countries in 2023.

4(b). “Aid workers killed per year per million of population” is 140 (Gaza) versus 0.035 (the World).

The World acted with rigorous global sanctions over the 69 Africans killed in the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and must act likewise now over the Gaza Genocide. Silence is complicity.

8 November 2024. 366,000  deaths in the first year of the Gaza Massacre. Professor Devi Sridhar (chair, global health, University of Edinburgh) estimated that deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in Gaza totalled 335,500 over 11 months. Noting that under-5 infant deaths are about 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries, this translates to 366,000  deaths in the first year of the Gaza Massacre, including 267,000 children, 31,000 women and 71,000 men. Some WW2 comparisons:

(a). Rate of killing of children:  267,000 per year (Gaza) versus 250,000 per year (Jewish children killed by Nazis).

(b).  % of pre-war population killed: 15.9%  (Gaza) versus 21.7% (French Jews) and 28.2% (Hungarian Jews).

(c).  Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio: 366,000/1,139 = 321 (Gaza) versus 10 (ordered by Hitler for  the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Rome).

(d). If 50% of the Israeli dead on 7 October were killed by the IDF under its “Hannibal Directive”, Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio: 366,000/570= 642 (Gaza) versus 10 (ordered by Hitler).  

(e). “Prisoners killed per day per million of imprisoned population”: 436 (Gaza) versus 24 (Australian POWs of the Japanese).

Utterly unforgivable, US- and Australian Labor Government-complicit  mass murder of children, women and mothers. Nazi is as Nazi does. Silence is complicity. The complicit have inescapably cursed themselves.

6 November 2024. Western journalists ignoring large-scale killing of fellow journalists in Gaza . In September 2024 eminent UK health expert Professor Devi Sridhar (chair, global health, University of Edinburgh) estimated that deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in Gaza totalled 335,500 over 11 months. Noting that under-5 infant deaths are about 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries, this translates to deaths in the first year of the Gaza Massacre totalling 366,000 (16% of the pre-war Gaza population), including 267,000 children, 31,000 women and 71,000 men. Professor Sridhar’s expert estimation has been overwhelmingly ignored by Western Mainstream media and most egregiously so during the US presidential election campaign in a travesty of informed democracy. Gaza Genocide-complicit Kamala Harris (the Biden/Harris Administration supplied 70,000 tons of bombs) briefly commented that “too many had died” thus obscenely implying that mass murder of “many” was OK. Similarly Zionist-perverted Western Mainstream media overwhelmingly ignore the large-scale killing of genocide-reporting journalists  by Jewish Israelis. “Journalists killed per year per million of population”  is 79.1  (in the present Gaza Massacre) as compared to the 1993-2023 average of 0.0084 (the World), 0.0505 (Mexico), 0.0984 (Afghanistan) and 0.2099 (Iraq). Western and Australian  journalists stand condemned for ignoring large-scale killing of fellow journalists in Gaza. Silence is complicity.

1 November 2024. Demand sanctions and expulsion of the Israeli ambassador over genocidal UNRWA ban. For over a year the 2.3 million inmates of the Gaza Concentration Camp (over 74% women and children) have been subject to Jewish Israeli-imposed bombing (over 70,000 tons of US-supplied bombs), war criminal siege and deadly deprivation. Unreported in pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Australia, Professor Devi Sridhar (chair, global health, University of Edinburgh) has estimated 335,500 Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation in 11 months. Because Global South under-5 year old infant deaths are 70% of deaths from deprivation this translates to deaths in the first year of the Gaza Massacre totalling 366,000 (16% of the pre-war Gaza population), including 267,000 children, 31,000 women and 71,000 men. The presently surviving 1.9 million Gazans are substantially deprived of the life-sustaining necessities of water, food, shelter, sanitation, electricity, medicine and medical care. Francesca Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine) has stated that Gaza is facing near-total genocide in coming years. Now UNRWA, absolutely crucial for Gazan survival, has been branded by Apartheid Israel as a terrorist organization to be excluded from Palestine, but the unforgivably Gaza Genocide-complicit Australian Labor Government has merely stated that it “opposes” this move. The decent Greens demand sanctions and expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.

30 October 2024. Australian Greens: impose sanctions and expel the Israeli ambassador over genocidal UNRWA ban. The Australian Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, flagrantly lies in the interests of Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, and in the middle of this carnage signed a $0.9 billion deal with the biggest Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit. UNWRA with 13,000 personnel in Palestine is crucial for addressing the present humanitarian catastrophe but has been declared a terrorist organization by the undemocratically constituted Apartheid Israeli Knesset, and will be excluded  from Palestine. Hundreds of thousands will perish. However Foreign Minister Wong merely says: “Australia opposes the Israeli Knesset's decision to severely restrict UNRWA's work”. In contrast  Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Greens Deputy Leader): “Enough with the weasel words. It’s time for Albanese and Wong to impose sanctions and expel the Israeli ambassador”.  US-backed and Labor-, Coalition- and non-Green others-backed Apartheid Israel grossly violates Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that demand that an Occupier must supply its conquered Subjects with life-sustaining food and medical services “to the fullest extent of the means available to it”.  47.3% of Gazans are children and 74.2% women and children. Professor Sridhar (University of Edinburgh): 335,500 Gazans have died. 90% of Australian voters are complicit.

17 October 2024. Intolerable lying by omission about Nazi-style Jewish Israeli war crimes by the  taxpayer-funded  Australian ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC). Unreported by the ABC, on 5 September 2024 Professor Devi Sridhar (chair, global health, University of Edinburgh) reported re Gaza: “Total deaths since the conflict began would be estimated at about 335,500 in total” or 30,500 per month and 366,000 per year. Of these “first year” deaths about 55,000 were violent (from “bullets and bombs”) and 311,000 from horrific imposed deprivation. Because Global South under-5 year old infant deaths are 70% of deaths from deprivation this can be translated (based on reported violent death proportions) to deaths in the first year of the Gaza Massacre of 267,000 children, 31,000 women and 71,000 men.  Some key WW2 comparisons can be made. (a) Rate of killing of children:  267,000 per year (Gaza) versus 250,000 per year (Jewish children killed by Nazis). (b) % of pre-war population killed: 15.9%  (Gaza) versus 21.7% (French Jews) and 28.2% (Hungarian Jews, my people). (c) Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio: 366,000/1,200 = 305 (Gaza) versus 10 (ordered by Hitler  and effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Rome). Mass murder of children, women and mothers is utterly unforgivable. Numbers matter. Nazi is as Nazi does. Intolerable lying by omission by the  taxpayer-funded  ABC.

16 October 2024. Cowardly, Zionsit-subverted and US lackey Australia won’t threaten dire retaliation to Jewish Israeli killing, injuring and traumatizing of Australians. In response to the cowardly Israeli attacks wounding  members of the peace-keeping UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the  Australian Labor Government has quite rightly stated: "Any targeting of UN personnel and facilities in Lebanon by Israel is unacceptable and must cease”. However despite repeated  and ignored representations to all Federal Labor MPs, and despite the consequential possibility of Labor losing Lebanese, Arab, Muslim, non-European and generally anti-racist votes in 2025 and indeed forever, the cowardly, Zionist-subverted and US lackey  Australian Labor Government will not state any words to the effect that “Any Israeli killing, injuring and traumatizing of Australians or their family members  in Lebanon, Gaza or indeed anywhere is unacceptable and must cease”. The Australian Labor Government has failed in its primary responsibility: the safety of Australians and their families. Silence is complicity.

14 October 2024. Epidemiological expert Professor Devi Sridhar (University of Edinburgh) : 335,500 Gaza dead from violence and imposed deprivation.  The author of 2007 and 2021 editions of “Body Count. Global avoidable  mortality since 1950” and 7 huge related books, it  was apparent to me from 7 October 2023 onwards that in addition to deaths from bombing, huge numbers of Palestinians in Gaza would die from the Apartheid Israeli imposition of total siege. Gaza had already suffered 57 years of savage Occupation including over 16 years of merciless blockade that deliberately reduced 2.3 million people (mostly children) to bare survival. A widely-reported Mainstream estimate is of 40,000 killed in this Gaza Genocide or 50,000 including 10,000 dead under rubble. However a July 2024  report in The Lancet estimated over 186,000 deaths from violence and deprivation. In September 2024 Professor Devi Sridhar (chair of global public health, University of Edinburgh) estimated 335,500 Gaza dead from violence and imposed deprivation. Ralph Nader has exposed this immense undercount in evidence now placed on the US Congressional record. Decent Australians like the Greens and Senators Payman and Thorpe demand an end to the killing and the Occupation, but the unforgivable Labor Government is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and the unspeakable Coalition wants the killing to continue. Silence is complicity.

11 October 2024. The Zionists supporting and running neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel are the worst anti-Semites in the world today.  I am a Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and secular Humanist from a world-famous Jewish Hungarian family (ask any mathematician or surgeon) and  with a sole national allegiance to Australia. I am accordingly inescapably bound by the core ethos of Humanity (Kindness and Truth),  the key messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (“zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”), and the wonderful 3-millennium Jewish humanitarian tradition from the Ten Commandments and Jesus’ “love thy neighbour as thyself” to the huge body of present-era Jewish moral and intellectual giants from Hannah Arendt to Howard Zinn. Decades before the present Gaza Genocide (The Lancet: 186,000 killed, mostly children, by Apartheid Israel-imposed violence and deprivation), anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (NYU) decried the genocidally racist Zionist subversion of over 70% of Jews: “The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis”, and father of like-minded and famed Yehudi Menuhin, Moshe Menuhin, stated: “Jews should be Jews not Nazis” (Google “Jews against racist Zionism”). Indeed under unforgivably Zionist-perverted Labor Australia voted No to the annual UNGA anti-Nazism Resolution.

10 October 2024. The Zionist-subverted Australian Labor Government (ALG) fails in its  prime duty to ensure the security of Australians. The Australian Labor Government (ALG) has a prime duty to ensure the security of Australians. Decent Australians must  demand that the ALG order Apartheid Israel not to kill or injure ANY of the tens of thousands of Australians and the many more thousands of their relatives in Lebanon, Palestine and other countries on pain of draconian diplomatic and economic retribution (e.g.  massive, US-style  compensatory damages of $100 million per person killed and $10 million per person physically injured  or traumatized).However over the last year of mass murder in Gaza and now Lebanon the ALG has utterly failed in this key responsibility. Further, the ALG  is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and has lied in defence of Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Birchgrove Legal has made a Submission to the ICC signed by over 100 lawyers about ALG complicity in the Gaza Genocide. I have made a huge, detailed and documented Submission to the  NACC  [National Anti-Corruption Commission] over the ALG lying for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel (treason). The unforgivably genocide-complicit ALG and the even worse Coalition will face electoral retribution from decent Australians who will put the Australia-betraying Labor-Coalition duopoly last in 2025 and indeed forever.

8 October 2024. “The key messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust”. The key messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, notably for anti-racist and hence anti-Zionist Jews (such as myself), are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. However these key imperatives are grossly violated by the unforgivably racist Zionists and pro-Zionists, notably the Australian Labor Government, Coalition Opposition, Teals and US-owned Murdoch media in their fervent support for genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Apartheid Israel and hence for Apartheid and the mass murder of children, women and mothers in Gaza and Lebanon. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (31/8/2024): 90% of Gazans displaced, 10% of 2.2 million Gazans killed, injured or missing, 49,032 killed (this including those dead under the rubble), and the killing of 44,180 civilians, 16,164 children, 10,399 women, 523 health care professionals, 172 journalists, and 76 civil defence workers. War criminally-imposed lack of water, food, shelter, schools, sanitation, medicine and medical care means horrific deaths from deprivation. The Lancet: “Up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza”, this implying deaths of 136,000 children (under-5 year olds are 70% of deaths from deprivation), 17,000 women and 33,000 men. Silence is complicity.

7 October 2024. “anti-Arab anti-Semitic Australian Labor-Coalition duopoly”. The New York Times reported that the US and Israel were aware a year in advance of plans for the 7 October 2023 Occupied Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp to bargain for 5.6 million Occupied Palestinian hostages of Apartheid Israel. Under International Law the Occupied can defend themselves but not the Occupiers. Eminent Western writers have reported that many of the 1,200 Israeli deaths on 7 October were due to the high explosive firepower of the responding  IDF  following  its “Hannibal Directive”. Haaretz data indicate that 97.5%  of the Israelis killed were adults (and hence mostly past or present Occupier Israeli military) and 2.5% (30) were children. The Lancet (including deprivation-based deaths): “Up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza”, this implying 136,000 child deaths, 17,000 women deaths and 33,000 men deaths (under-5 year old infants being about 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation). Western-accepted Zionist lying  enables horrendous Jewish Israeli war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. The Orwellian, mendacious, holocaust-ignoring, racist, anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic Australian Labor-Coalition duopoly and Mainstream media ignore expert reportage and are criminally complicit in the ongoing Gaza Genocide.

4 October 2024. “order Apartheid Israel not to injure or kill ANY Australians”. The Australian Labor Government is complicit in the ongoing Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, lies in the interests of Australia-violating Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, and ignores  involvement of Jewish Australians in the bombing and mass murder in Gaza and Lebanon. In their fanatical support of US-backed Apartheid Israel both Labor and the Coalition also seriously threaten basic human rights of anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Lebanese, Arab and Muslim Australians and indeed of all Australians. As reported by Murdoch and Nine media, the Australian Federal Parliament’s Intelligence Committee has now asked the Labor Government to designate the Hezbollah-controlled area of southern Lebanon a “declared” area, this meaning it would be illegal for Australians to be there except as child-killing IDF members. Cowardly and traitorous Labor has betrayed Australia  by refusing to order Apartheid Israel not to injure or kill ANY Australians or their thousands of relatives in Gaza and Lebanon on pain of dire diplomatic and economic retribution. The fervently pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Labor-Coalition duopoly is utterly unfit for public life and public office in a multicultural and human rights-based one-person-one-vote democracy like Australia, and will be totally rejected at the ballot box by decent Australians.

 3 October 2024. “unforgivable Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratios”. The Old Testament (Exodus 21.24) declared “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth” although in the New Testament (Matthew 18.6) Jesus angrily demanded extreme reprisals: “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea”. Nazi leader Hitler ordered and achieved unforgivable Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratios (RDRs) of 11 (1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Rome)  and 342 (the Lidice  Atrocity in Czechoslovakia). Jump to the 21st century for RDRs of 609 (Iraq/US) and 1,970 (Afghanistan/US). However for 7 October 2023 onwards the RDRs are 67 (Mainstream estimates, Gazans/Israel), 310 (as estimated  in The Lancet, Gazans/Israel), and 205 (Lebanon/Israel). The dead victims are overwhelmingly children. Nazi is as Nazi does. Terrorism is as terrorism does.  Decent ant-racist Australians will continue to protest this utterly disproportionate carnage by US-backed Apartheid Israel and will utterly reject the fervently pro-Apartheid Israel, pro-Apartheid, Gaza Genocide-complicit  and US lackey Labor-Coalition duopoly by putting them last at all elections. Those complicit in the mass abuse, mass injuring and mass murder of children are utterly unforgivable. Silence is complicity.

1 October 2024. “thousands of Australians and their relatives in Lebanon”. Apart from minor border spats and several horrific  border conflicts (e.g.  Iran/Iraq) countries of the global South have not invaded other countries in living memory except as US allies. However according to the US Congressional Research Service the US has launched 251 military interventions since 1991 alone. US lackey Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US wars, atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence and imposed deprivation. However in 2024 alone US-, US Alliance- and Australia -backed Apartheid Israel has violently attacked  5 countries namely Palestine, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen, Gaza has been reduced to rubble, and 186,000 Gazans (mostly children) have been killed (The Lancet). Now Lebanon faces the same fate. Yet the pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Australian Labor-Coalition Duopoly ignores the carnage, falsely defames humane protesters, and dishonestly weaponizes “terrorist”, “hate speech”, “social cohesion” and “antisemitism”. The racist, mendacious, and traitorous Labor Government is utterly finished electorally because it won’t protect Australians (its prime duty) and won’t  order Apartheid Israel on pain of severe diplomatic and economic retribution not to kill or injure ANY of the scores of thousands of Australians and their relatives in Lebanon.  Silence is complicity.

27 September 2024. The NACC has rejected nearly 90% of referrals. As a responsible citizen I have made 5 huge, detailed and exhaustively documented Submissions to Australia’s newly-established National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) addressing huge and fraudulent abuses, namely (1) huge, ignored and Fourth Geneva Convention-violating war crimes by Australian Labor and Coalition politicians, (2) corporations and governments corruptly ignoring  huge, growing and inescapable Carbon Debt that existentially threatens Humanity and the Biosphere, (3) exposure of huge and  blatantly fraudulent university fees, (4) egregious Mainstream media (MSM) lying , and (5) traitorous Australian Labor Government lying for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel, matters variously resolutely ignored by the mendacious Australian Mainstream. With the possible exception of (5) all  my Submissions were rejected by the NACC that was evidently knackered from the outset by the US-, Zionist- and Establishment-beholden Labor-Coalition Duopoly. In Orwellian Australia a New South Wales premier honourably resigned  after an anti-corruption body there found he had forgotten to disclose the gift of a $3,000 bottle of wine whereas  Australia’s resolutely ignored and planet-threatening Carbon Debt is about US$5 trillion. The NACC has rejected nearly 90% of referrals (ABC). In all elections informed Australians will put the mendacious and traitorous Labor-Coalition Duopoly last (for details and documentation: https://countercurrents.org/2023/10/australian-national-anti-corruption-commission-rejects-submissions-re-huge-australian-war-crimes-and-carbon-debt/ ).

26 September 2024. Zionist-imposed Gaza Genocide and Lebanon Genocide. The  Australian Labor-Coalition Duopoly, taxpayer-funded ABC and US-owned Murdoch media fervently support what they falsely call “the democratic Jewish state” of Israel. Yet about 50% of Apartheid Israeli Subjects are Indigenous Palestinians of whom 73% (the Occupied Palestinians) are deprived of all human rights and excluded from voting for the government ruling them, while the 27% Israeli Palestinians can vote for approved candidates, albeit as Third Class citizens under 65 Nazi-style, race-based discriminatory laws. An anti-racist Jewish Australian scholar with a sole allegiance to Australia I have detailed 35 Zionist lies entrenched in Zionist-perverted Australia by genocidally racist,  egregiously mendacious, and unforgivably traitorous Zionist and pro-Zionist fanatics. Now I get a lot of my daily  news and opinion from the ABC but the only pertinent opinion of an anti-racist and hence anti-Zionist Jewish Australian that I can recall on prime time  ABC in 20 years is that of the marvellously humane Miriam Margolyes. This extraordinary censorship of a huge body of truth-telling, patriotic and variously eminent anti-racist Jewish Australians is egregious anti-Jewish anti-Semitism and has made an anti-Arab anti-Semitic Australia complicit in the horrific Zionist-imposed Gaza Genocide and Lebanon Genocide. Decent voters must act.

25 September 2024. Lebanon Massacre: “Arab lives matter”. Under the  Australian Labor Government-Coalition Opposition Duopoly Australia is second only to the US as a supporter of serial war criminal, genocidally racist, nuclear terrorist, grossly human rights-violating and international laws-violating Apartheid Israel that is now doing with US-supplied bombs to Lebanon what it has done to Gaza (The Lancet:  an ancient city destroyed and 186,000 Palestinians, mostly children,  killed by violence and imposed deprivation). Indeed the Israeli “defence” minister  spoke of bombing  impoverished Lebanon “back to the Stone Age”. There are about 300,000 Lebanese Australians and accordingly a huge number of Australians (30,000) and an even larger number of relatives of Australians in Lebanon. The cowardly at best and genocidally racist at worst Australian Labor Government  has told Australians to leave to escape Israeli bombing. It should also order Apartheid Israel  not to kill  or injure ANY Australians or their relatives on pain of comprehensive boycotts, cessation of diplomatic and trade links, and huge compensatory  damages ($10-100 million per person).  However anti-Arab anti-Semitic Labor  won’t and will be demolished in 2025 via a huge body of anti-racist Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, non-European and European voters who believe re the Lebanon Massacre: “Arab lives matter”.

23 September 2024. The daily moral challenge of the ongoing Gaza Genocide. The World faces the daily moral challenge of the ongoing Gaza Genocide (The Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians, mostly children, killed by violence and imposed deprivation). Only 18 out of  43 (42%) of the European countries of the UN voted Yes to the 2024 UNGA Resolution demanding that Apartheid Israel cease its illegal, war criminal, racist and genocidal Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory whereas 106 out of 150 (71%) of the non-European countries voted Yes. Under a Labor Government Australia refused to vote Yes but was trenchantly criticized by the even worse Coalition Opposition for not voting No. Non-Whites are now 24% of the Australian population and Whites 76% but 95% of executive positions are held by Whites in a continuing racist White Australia. Those buying goods and services from Australians or indeed bonking Australians must seriously consider whether they, like the repellent Labor-Coalition Duopoly, are racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and unforgivably complicit in genocide in Gaza and the mass murder of Semitic Occupied Palestinian children. Silence is complicity. Universities Australia and the Big Eight have followed the Zionist-perverted Duopoly by ignoring the Gaza Genocide and instead engaging in duplicitous hand-wringing over “social cohesion” and falsely asserted “antisemitism” on campuses.

20 September 2024. Thousands of relatives of Australians in Gaza and Lebanon. The American Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP): “Israel carried out two terrorist attacks across Lebanon this week, bringing the entire region ever closer to the brink of all out war. These are the actions of a rogue state and the direct result of a climate of total impunity … The U.S. sends Israel billions in taxpayer dollars that it then uses to purchase weapons in the U.S. market from U.S.-based arms manufacturers, who exercise enormous influence over U.S. foreign and defense policy”. In stark contrast, the Australian taxpayer-funded ABC Radio National reports a US expert obscenely praising the Israeli attacks as “highly moral” in specifically targeting Hezbollah military as compared to the indiscriminate killing of “conventional  war”.  The leading medical journal The Lancet  reports 186,000 deaths in the Gaza Concentration Camp, mostly of children, due to Jewish Israeli-imposed violence and imposed deprivation. Decent anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians simply  cannot support the fervently pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid,  pro-Israeli state terrorism, pro-war, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor-Coalition duopoly that in particular is unforgivably silent over the Jewish Israeli killing and mangling of some Australians and of thousands of relatives of Australians in Gaza and Lebanon.

19 September 2024. Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways. The UNGA has adopted a Resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza within a year (124-12 vote with 43 abstentions including cowardly, Labor-ruled Australia). The ICJ has ruled that the Occupation is illegal, involves gross human rights abuse, genocide and apartheid and should end. Australia under the Zionist-perverted, US lackey Labor-Coalition Duopoly has a shocking record of fervently supporting Apartheid Israel. Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways (The Lancet: 186,000 killed), parrots 35 Zionist lies in support of Apartheid Israel, and unforgivably voted No to the annual UNGA anti-Nazism Resolution. I always voted 1 Labor  until Labor’s climate criminality forced me to vote 1 Green and 2 Labor. A Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian, now I can never again support Labor and the Coalition is even worse (Elon Musk: “Fascists”). Morally degenerate Labor must but won’t order Apartheid Israel to immediately (1) stop the killing, (2) stop the killing and mangling of Lebanese, Palestinian and Muslim Australians and their relatives (thousands thus violated so far), (3) end the occupation, theft, apartheid and genocide, and (4) restore all human rights to 15 million Indigenous Palestinians.

17 September 2024. Labor-Coalition Duopoly is also anti-Jewish anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitism includes anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against 18 million mostly culturally Semitic Jews, and anti-Arab anti-Semitism against 300 million ethnically Semitic Arabs and 2,000 million mainly culturally Semitic Muslims (Islamophobia). The Australian Labor-Coalition Duopoly supports genocidally racist Zionism (genocidal Jewish settler-colonialism in Palestine), Apartheid Israel, Apartheid (criminal by UN Conventions), anti-Arab anti-Semitism (Gaza, the Palestinian Genocide, the 35-year, US-imposed  Muslim Holocaust) and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism (falsely conflating genocidally racist Zionism and Apartheid Israel with all Jews, including anti-racist Jews opposed to the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel). I am anti-racist Jewish and regularly encounter wonderful anti-racist and hence anti-Zionist Jews  at the weekly Sunday Gaza Rallies in Melbourne (12 noon, Victorian State Library) protesting the ongoing Gaza Massacre (The Lancet: 186,000 killed, this implying  136,000 children killed). The repugnant  Labor-Coalition Duopoly is also anti-Jewish anti-Semitic by resolutely ignoring  a huge body of eminent  anti-racist Jewish opinion within Australia (Sir Isaac Isaacs, Professors Peter Singer, Dennis Altman and Eva Cox) and around the world, notably Naomi Klein, Bertell Ollman, Moshe Menuhin (“Jews should be Jews – not Nazis”)  and Nobel laureates Albert Einstein, Nadine Gordimer and Harold Pinter (Google “Jews against racist Zionism”). Decent Australians must  reject the racist Labor-Coalition Duopoly.

16 September 2024. Insidiously plausible Kamala Harris lies . The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is violated by the unforgivable, Zionist-perverted, US lackey Australian Labor- Coalition Duopoly that lies in 35 ways in support of genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Apartheid Israel, Apartheid, the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Zionist subversion of Australians and Australian institutions (notably Australian universities), and endless American lying excoriated  by famed anti-racist Americans I.F. Stone (“Governments lie”) and Gore Vidal (“Unlike most Americans who lie all the time, I hate lying”). Our long-suffering American cousins  (I have one) are offered blatantly implausible Donald Trump lies (30,000 lies in 4 years, “immigrants eating pet dogs and cats”)  and insidiously plausible Kamala Harris lies. Thus in the Trump-Harris debate, Kid Killing Kamala (KKK) spoke of 1,200 innocent Israelis killed by Hamas “terrorists” on 7 October 2023  but most were probably killed by massive IDF fire-power, most were present or past IDF members, and US-backed Israeli state terrorism has killed 186,000 Gazans, mostly children (The Lancet). KKK further asserted her undying love for Jewish Israelis (yet Palestinians are 50% of Apartheid Israeli subjects) and that “far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed” (evidently preferring the unforgivable killing of some or many) (see Gideon Polya, “Gaza Massacre: 35 Ways Zionist-perverted US, Australia & West Lie For Child-killing, Neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 23 November 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/11/gaza-massacre-35-ways-zionist-perverted-us-australia-west-lie-for-child-killing-neo-nazi-apartheid-israel/ ).

13 September 2024. Elon Musk’s response to Labor’s media laws: “Fascists”. I agree. The core ethos of Humanity is (a) Kindness and (b) Truth but this is violated by the Labor-Coalition Duopoly. (a) Unkindness: The Zionist- and US-beholden Labor-Coalition Duopoly (i) supported  all post-1950 US Asian wars (40 million deaths; Labor  excepted the Vietnam War and the Iraq War), (ii) horribly and criminally persecutes refugees, (iii) ignores the huge war crimes of Australian politicians, and (iv) supports in 20 ways the genocide in Gaza of a Semitic people. (b) Untruth: The Labor-Coalition Duopoly (i) lies in support of Apartheid Israel and hence vile Apartheid in 35 ways, (ii) falsely describes Indigenous Arabs and Muslims defending  their homelands from US state terrorism as “terrorists”,  (iii) lies about everything from its complicity in genocide to Australia’s massive  part in the existential threats to Humanity and the Biosphere from nuclear weapons and climate change, (iv) supports the anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and holocaust-denying IHRA, (v) seeks to ban most Australian children from truth-telling on social media, and (vi) now seeks to bully social media into censoring truth and free speech. Fascist is as fascist does – Australians must kick out the fascist Labor-Coalition Duopoly. (see Gideon Polya, “Gaza Massacre: 35 Ways Zionist-perverted US, Australia & West Lie For Child-killing, Neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 23 November 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/11/gaza-massacre-35-ways-zionist-perverted-us-australia-west-lie-for-child-killing-neo-nazi-apartheid-israel/ ).

12 September 2024. Recognized by those protesting the Labor-backed, genocide-complicit Land Forces Expo 2024 in Melbourne, the Zionist-subverted and US lackey Australian Labor Government fervently supports Apartheid Israel by lying, diplomacy, key arms supply, massive military purchases, intelligence, missile targeting, and Nazi-style brain washing of Jewish children, and is complicit in the ongoing Jewish Israeli mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza (The Lancet: 186,000 killed). Australia is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel, and hence of the utterly vile crime of Apartheid. The Labor-Coalition Duopoly is anti-Arab anti-Semitic (supporting horrific, anti-Semitic US wars and US-backed Apartheid Israel’s mass murder of Occupied Palestinians) and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic (by falsely conflating these awful genocidal crimes with all  Jews, this falsely including decent, anti-racist Jews such as myself bound by a wonderful multi-millennial humanitarian Jewish tradition). Anti-racist Jews (sidelined in an anti-Semitic Australia by the Labor-Coalition Duopoly) say that the Palestinian Genocide can be ended  immediately by according 15 million Indigenous Palestinians all human rights, but unfortunately the US- and Australia-backed and genocidally racist Jewish Israelis overwhelmingly oppose this. Moshe Menuhin (father of like-minded and famed Jewish musician Yehudi Menuhin): “Jews should be Jews - not Nazis”.

(contact details; see Gideon Polya , “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/  ).  

11 September 2024. The core ethos of decent Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is grossly violated by the  racist and mendacious Australian Labor Government and the even more repugnant Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Opposition that has been described by Professor Gillian Triggs as “ideologically opposed to human rights”. Anti-racist Jewish American journalist I.F. Stone declared “Governments lie” and the Australian Labor-Coalition political duopoly  follows the UK Labour-Conservative duopoly and US Democrat-Republican duopoly in massive lying by omission and lying by commission that unforgivably impacts children.  The Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted and US lackey Labor-Coalition duopoly fervently supports Apartheid Israel and hence the vile crime of Apartheid and blatantly lies about Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. The repellently mendacious Labor Government is unforgivably complicit in the Coalition-backed, Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide in 20 ways (The Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians killed by violence and imposed deprivation). The mendacious Labor-Coalition duopoly funds Zionists brainwashing Jewish children over the Gaza Genocide (utterly repugnant anti-Jewish anti-Semitism and anti-Arab  anti-Semitism) and now proposes extending this gross intellectual child abuse by banning access by most children to truth-telling on social media. Decent Australians cannot support the genocide-complicit, climate criminal, terracidal, and child-abusing Labor-Coalition duopoly. Greta Thunberg: “How dare you!”

See Gideon Polya, “Gaza Massacre: 35 Ways Zionist-perverted US, Australia & West Lie For Child-killing, Neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 23 November 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/11/gaza-massacre-35-ways-zionist-perverted-us-australia-west-lie-for-child-killing-neo-nazi-apartheid-israel/ . END LETTER.

9 September 2024. The core ethos of decent Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is grossly violated by US-, US Alliance – and Australia-backed Apartheid Israel in its mass murder of children in Gaza and  its horrific killing of journalists bravely reporting this ongoing atrocity. Silence is complicity and these Awful Truths are ignored  by Gaza Genocide-complicit Australian Coalition and Labor politicians, likewise-perverted Independents and the taxpayer-funded ABC. Thus Palestinians killed by violence and imposed deprivation in Gaza  total 186,000 (The Lancet, 5/7/2024) of whom I estimate 136,000 are children, 17,000 women and 33,000 men. The rate of killing of children by Apartheid Israel in Gaza  is 248,000 killed per year whereas the rate of killing of Jewish children by the Nazis in WW2 was 250,000 killed per year. Nazi is as Nazi does. 162 journalists have been killed in Gaza  since 7 October 2023 (Anadolu 22/7/2024) and the “journalists  killed per year per 10 million of population” is 892 for Gaza, this being over 100 times greater than for the 2 next worse entities Syria (5) and Afghanistan (3) (the World scores 0.08 and India 0.03). Properly informed, decent Australians will utterly reject the criminal Coalition/Labor duopoly.

See Gideon Polya, “Remember Shireen Abu Akleh: Apartheid Israel Leads The World For Killing Journalists”, Countercurrents, 6 June 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/remember-shireen-abu-akleh-apartheid-israel-leads-the-world-for-killing-journalists/ . 

8 September 2024. Gaza Genocide metrics ignored by the taxpayer-funded ABC . Physicist Lord Kelvin famously stated “To measure is to know”. Applying this to the unforgivable ongoing massacre by Jewish Israelis of Occupied Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp yields the following horrific Gaza Genocide metrics ignored by the taxpayer-funded ABC and by Australian Federal politicians (except for 15 Greens and 4 Independents or a mere 19 out of 227 Federal MPs):  (1)  Palestinian deaths from violence and imposed deprivation total 186,000 (The Lancet). (2) 1,200 Israelis were killed in the Occupied Palestinian Breakout on 7 October, with 2.5% (30) being children,  97.5% being present or former  IDF military (compulsory Israeli military service), and many being  killed in the IDF response involving high explosive tank shelling and  hellfire missiles from helicopters (prizewinning Western journalists). (3) The Occupied Palestinian/ Jewish Israeli Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio is at least 186,000/1,200 = 155 (15.5 times greater than the Reprisals Death Ratio of 10 ordered by Hitler in 1944). (4) Population-normalized, Apartheid Israel leads the world in killing children and journalists. (5) The rate of killing of children in Gaza is similar to the rate of killing of Jewish children by the Nazis in WW2. Nazi is as Nazi does. Silence is complicity.

4 September 2024. ASIO aka AZIO is A ZIOnist-subverted Australian intelligence organization. The Australian Security and Intelligence  Organization (ASIO) recently stated re Palestinian refugee visa applications: “If you think terrorism is OK, if you think the destruction of the state of Israel is OK, if you think Hamas and what they did on the 7th of October is OK, I can tell you that is not OK”. ASIO aka AZIO is A ZIOnist-subverted organization and complicit in the subversion of Australia by US-backed, genocidally racist Apartheid Israel that in 11 months of Jewish Israeli state terrorism has killed 186,000 Palestinians in the ongoing Gaza  Genocide (The Lancet), this including 136,000 children, 17,000 women, 33,000 men, 500 health professionals and 150 journalists. Hamas has regrettably killed about 2,000 Occupier Israelis over 2 decades in International Law-permitted self-defence (eminent lawyer Francesca Albanese), is an Indigenous national liberation organization, organized now-destroyed life-sustaining basic services in blockaded Gaza, was overwhelmingly backed by Occupied Palestinians in the 2006 elections, and seeks to end Apartheid Israel (see  Gideon Polya, “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide”). Huge IDF firepower killed many Israelis on 7 October. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.

3 September 2024. Rejected Submissions to the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission. The story goes that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sent anonymous telegrams to numerous eminent British gentlemen saying “All is discovered. Flee at once” and they all did. However Australian public figures are made of sterner stuff, confident that the law is made by the rich for the rich, that criticism of US Alliance war crimes is heavily suppressed, and that the Mainstream media (MSM) gate-keepers will hermetically isolate the Awful Truth from the public. Thus I have ensured that nearly all Federal MPs and the MSM have been  repeatedly made aware of Australian involvement in US-engineered coups in 8 Indo-Pacific countries and in horrific US Alliance war crimes but the Silence has been Deafening. Likewise I have sent  5 huge Submissions to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) about (1) fraudulent university fees, (2) Australian war crimes, (3) huge Carbon Debt, (4) Mainstream media lying, and (5) the Australian Labor Government lying for Apartheid Israel – however 1-4 have been rejected and I have heard nothing about (5). Democracy-violating lying by omission is far worse than repugnant lying by commission because the latter at least permits public refutation and public debate (subject to MSM gate-keepers, of course).

2 September 2024. Zionist-perverted Australian Labor Government  is complicit  in the Gaza Genocide (compared here with 7 horrific WW2 holocausts). I was in angry denial as a patriotic Australian child in the 1950s when my greatest mentor, a scholarly Jewish Hungarian refugee from Nazi Europe, said that it could happen in Australia. Considered 70 years later he had a serious point. US lackey Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars (atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence and imposed deprivation with Labor supporting  all but the Indo-China War and the Iraq War). Presently Zionist-perverted Labor is complicit  in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways  and promulgates 35 Zionist lies in the interests of an inimical and  genocidal foreign state, Apartheid Israel. Indeed I made a Submission to the National Anti- Corruption Commission (NACC) over the Australian Labor Government  lying for Apartheid Israel.  The Lancet has reported 186,000 dead in the Gaza Genocide, this representing 8.1% of the pre-war Gaza population. The deaths percentages for the following WW2 Holocausts are as follows: Soviet (15.6% of the pre-war population), Polish (15.7- 17.1 %), Jewish (58.6-66.7%), Jewish Hungarian (my people; 28.2%), Bengali (6.7%), NE Indian (5.6-6.6%) and Chinese (6.8-7.8% ). The Coalition and Labor are utterly unfit to rule.

 29 August 2024.  Anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government complicit in the Gaza Genocide. The Australian Labor Government obfuscates the Gaza Genocide (The Lancet, 5/7/2024: 186,000 Palestinians killed through violence and imposed deprivation) by genocide denial, by fervently supporting Apartheid Israel diplomatically, by 2-way arms deals (e.g. a recent $0.9 billion military purchase  from serial war criminal Apartheid Israel), and by falsely smearing the Greens and other decent humanitarians (notably pro-Palestinian  human rights protesters) for asserted ‘’anti-semitism”,  “damaging social cohesion” and “cynically exploiting Gaza for political purposes”. Labor has rejected 70% of Gaza visa applications but the even worse Coalition demands 100% rejection. An anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic Labor Government utterly ignores the opinions  of eminent anti-racist Australian Jews from Sir Isaac Isaacs to Professors Peter Singer, Dennis Altman and Eva Cox, and of a huge body of anti-racist  Jews in general  (including myself) who endlessly say of genocidal Apartheid Israeli crimes: “Not in my name”. Instead US lackey Labor  takes its line from the US, US-owned Australian media, and racist Zionists with a fervent allegiance to genocidally racist Apartheid Israel. Those supporting Apartheid Israel and hence the vile crime of Apartheid are utterly unfit for public office in a one-person-one-vote democracy like Australia. Decent Australians will vote accordingly.

23 August 2024

In the week before the Palestinian American-excluding Democratic National Convention, Biden announced approval of the sale of $20 billion in weapons to Israel, just as a departing President Obama left a legacy of $38 billion in military aid to Apartheid Israel over the next decade. Realistically American voters have to choose between a Zionist-perverted and Gaza Genocide-complicit Kid-Killing Kamala (KKK; Vice President under Genocide Joe, the child-killing geriatric who supplied all the bombs that reduced the huge and ancient city of Gaza to uninhabitable rubble and killed 186,000 Palestinians according to the top medical journal The Lancet ) and Zionist-perverted, anti-science, puerile, racist, sexist, deranged blabber-mouth and pathologically mendacious  populist Trump (according to The Washington Post he told an extraordinary 30,000 lies during his administration). Such massive Trump lying is akin to insane detachment from reality, and sensible Americans will have to vote for Kamala Harris notwithstanding her unforgivable complicity in the ongoing Gaza Genocide. Whoever wins, the Australian Coalition- and Labor-backed US mass murder of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim children, women, mothers and men will continue. Voting Coalition or Labor is complicity in genocide.

15 August 2024

The ABC: “The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has cancelled an upcoming performance of Australian-British classical pianist Jayson Gillham after he made comments about the killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza during a recital. ” Jayson Gillam is correct and the MSO shamefully wrong. The leading medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 Gaza deaths  from violence and imposed deprivation (5 July 2024), and data from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor indicate that the 186,000 Gaza dead include about 45,000 killed violently (including 8,000 buried under rubble), 136,000 children, 17,000 women, 33,000 men, 500 health professionals, and 150 journalists. On a per capita normalized basis Apartheid Israel leads the world in the killing of children and journalists. While Coalition and Labor politicians make political capital over “security” and “foreign interference” they disgracefully ignore Apartheid Israeli and traitorous Zionist subversion of Australians and Australian institutions.  The freedom of expression of pro-human rights university students, academics, journalists and now classical pianists is under foreign attack. At the next election decent and patriotic Australians will determine that Coalition and Labor politicians supporting Apartheid Israel  and hence the vile crime of Apartheid are utterly unfit for public life and public office in a one-person-one-vote democracy.  

10 August 2024

Ambassadors for the UK, US, Canada, Australia and for the EU have contemptibly boycotted attendance at the memorial for the 70,000 victims of the 9 August 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing that occurred shortly after the US  atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 that killed 140,000. The reason? The Mayor of Nagasaki declined to invite the Ambassador for the State of Israel that according to the top medical journal The Lancet (5/7/2024) has killed over 186,000 Occupied Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza in the last 10 months. It is estimated that these 186,000 deaths include 45,000 violent deaths (including 8,000 killed under rubble) and deaths of 149,000 from imposed deprivation, 136,000 children, 33,000 men, 17,000 women, 500 health care professionals and 150 journalists. The Gaza Genocide (186,000 killed so far) bears comparison with some other horrendous atrocities (deaths in brackets): the fire-bombing of Tokyo (100,000), genocide of Hungarian Jews (200,000), Hiroshima and Nagasaki  (210,000), and the Warsaw Ghetto (400,000). The US provided the bombs, and the US lackey Australian Labor Government is complicit in this atrocity in 20 ways. Anti-racist Australians will put Labor last.  Silence is complicity e.g. the taxpayer-funded ABC won’t report the 186,000 Gaza deaths.* Gideon Polya, “Proof: Orwellian Australian Mainstream Media & Politicians Lie For Genocidally Racist Apartheid Israel” , Countercurrents, 31 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/proof-orwellian-australian-mainstream-media-politicians-lie-for-genocidally-racist-apartheid-israel/ .

8 August 2024

Genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial and holocaust denial because the latter at least permit refutation and debate. Denial of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (about 6 million deaths from violence and imposed deprivation) is criminalized in several European countries. However genocide denial is entrenched in Australia where the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is about 9 years (for males) and 8 years (for females), and in the post-1788  Aboriginal Genocide Indigenous deaths from violence (0.1 million) and imposed deprivation total about 2 million. Similarly the life expectancy gap between Occupied Indigenous Palestinians and Israelis is about 10 years and Indigenous Palestinian deaths from violence (0.1 million) and imposed deprivation in the century-long Palestinian Genocide also total about 2 million. The commonalities of these 3 atrocities are settler colonialist invasion, theft, genocidal racism and egregious mendacity. The taxpayer-funded ABC forbids use of “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe the Apartheid Israel-imposed Palestinian Genocide and will not report the shocking  estimation in the leading medical journal The Lancet (5/7/24) of 186,000 Gazan deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in the horrific and ongoing Gaza Genocide. Silence is complicity.

6 August 2024

The Gaza Genocide-complicit Australian Labor Government  on Intelligence advice has warned that a terrorist “incident” in Australia is now “probable”,  has explicitly implicated the Far Right, has inexplicitly and objectionably implicated Muslims and pro-Palestinian human rights protesters, and has expressed concern that young people are being “radicalized” by non-Mainstream on-line content leading to rejection of Mainstream media and politicians. Indeed the Labor Government proposes Internet censorship and banning under-16 year olds accessing social media. Rejection of the Mainstream by the young is thoroughly  justified e.g. on 5 July the  respected medical journal The Lancet reported that while violent deaths in Gaza total 37,000 (excluding deaths under rubble), deaths from violence and imposed deprivation may exceed 186,000. No Australian Mainstream media (including the SBS and ABC) have reported this except for The Guardian.  Conversely this was widely reported by over 100 humane Alternative media in Australia and abroad. I have been researching avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation for 30 years as reported in hundreds of  detailed and documented articles and numerous huge books but, like the 186,000, have been rendered invisible in Australia. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence  is complicity.

2 August 2024

The Australian Labor Government claims that its primary job is to protect Australians but the cowardly and racist reality is otherwise: (1) while it  took extraordinary  steps (including  electronic  tracking bracelets) to protect Australians from several refugees with serious criminal convictions for rape or murder,  it has done nothing to protect Australians from ( hundreds? thousands?) of returning dual Australian-Israeli citizens involved in the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza (The Lancet reports 186,000 killed violently and through imposed deprivation, including about 136,000 children, 16,000 women and 31,000 men); (2) it has told tens of thousands of Australian residents and citizens in Lebanon to leave but has not told Apartheid Israel not to bomb, kill or mangle Australians in Lebanon nor warn of dire economic, diplomatic and financial consequences if it does (the Value of a Statistical Life for an Australian is about $5 million); (3) it made no complaint  when an Australian, his resident wife and his Australian brother were killed by the Israelis in Lebanon in December 2023, but instead smeared them; (4) it ignores the fate in Gaza of thousands of relatives  of Australians. Silence is complicity. Anti-racist Australians will put Labor last.

26 July 2024

As a former Australian Labor Party member, Labor voter, campaigner for Mr Whitlam, union member and indeed former branch union secretary, I have great  sympathy for the just economic demands of  the striking 9 Publishing journalists. However I would have even greater  sympathy if their demands included freedom to report the Awful Truth that is currently highly constrained by Mainstream media gate-keepers from in-house censors to ASIO, the CIA and traitorous  Zionist agents of Australia-violating Apartheid Israel. By way of example, just some censored Awful Truths about the current Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre include the following: (1) the 250 Israeli hostages are endlessly reported but ignored are 10,000 Palestinians in military prisons and the Occupied Palestinians in general (presently 5.6 million) suffering  57 years without human rights under  highly abusive military rule; (2) the top medical journal The Lancet reports over 186,000 Gazan deaths from violence and imposed deprivation, this estimated to include 136,000 children; (3) sustained  false defamation of anti-racist Jews like me by anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Zionists and Coalition and Labor  pro-Zionists; (4) the Australian Labor Government supports the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 15 ways (ergo put Labor last).* Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ and  Gideon Polya, “Submission To National Anti-Corruption Commission: Australian Labor Government’s Lying For Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 22 July 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/07/submission-to-national-anti-corruption-commission-australian-labor-governments-lying-for-apartheid-israel/ .

17 July 2024

Crucial for peace, the World must immediately accord and enforce all human rights for Palestinians: the 7 million Exiled Palestinians (forbidden from returning to their homes in Palestine) and the 52% majority Indigenous Subjects of Apartheid Israel, the 5.6 million Occupied Palestinians (excluded from voting for the government ruling them and deprived of all human rights under Jewish Israeli military rule) and 2.1 million Israeli Palestinians (able to vote but subject to 65 race-based discriminatory laws). However Western-backed, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel fervently opposes human rights for the Indigenous Palestinians, and thus grossly violates Kindness and Truth, the core ethos of Humanity. The deaths of 69 Africans in the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre immediately led to rigorous global boycotts and sanctions that ultimately led to the fall of South African Apartheid in 1994 with the formation of a multi-racial, secular democracy. The unforgivable mass murder of 186,000 Gazans (The Lancet, 5/7/24) must elicit a massive global response. The World must impose comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Apartheid Israel and on all people, parties, companies and countries supporting this genocidally racist state. Anti-racist Australians will reject the fervently pro-Apartheid Israel and hence unforgivably pro-Apartheid Australian Labor Government and put Labor last. * Gideon Polya, “How To Free Palestine: End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation And Palestinian Genocide”, Countercurrents, 2 May 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/05/how-to-free-palestine-end-apartheid-israel-human-rights-denial-gaza-massacre-child-killing-occupation-and-palestinian-genocide/ .

16 July 2024

Genocide-complicit Western Mainstream media and politicians have overwhelmingly ignored the estimate published on 5 July in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet of 186,000 Palestinian deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in the Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre. The Lancet estimates 186,000 killed in the Gaza Genocide, with this including 37,000 killed violently (ignoring 8,000 dead under rubble) and 149,000 dying avoidably from imposed deprivation. Euro-Med Human  Rights Monitor has estimated that by Day 250 of the Gaza Massacre (after about 8 months and including 8,000 killed in the rubble) 45,000 Gazans had been killed, including 16,000 children (35.6%), 10,000 women (22.2%), and 19,000 men (42.2%). From this information one can calculate the deaths of 136,000 children in total or 136,000 x 100/1,500,000 = 9.1% of the 1.5 million Jewish children killed by the Nazis in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust. The rate of killing of 136,000 Palestinian children by Jewish Israelis in Gaza over 8 months  is 17,000 children killed per month, whereas the rate of Nazi German killing of Jewish children in WW2 (74 months) = 1,500,000 children/74 months = 20,270 children killed per month). Terrorism is as terrorism does. Nazi is as Nazi does.* Gideon Polya, “Zionist-Perverted Western Mainstream Media Ignore 186,000 Palestinian Deaths In Apartheid Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 15 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/zionist-perverted-western-mainstream-media-ignore-186000-palestinian-deaths-in-apartheid-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .

12 July 2024

In Orwellian Australia the ABC  has prohibited using  “genocide” and “apartheid” in describing the ongoing Palestinian  Genocide by Apartheid Israel. The ABC, like the UK BBC and all but 6 Western Mainstream media, has not mentioned the estimate of 186,000 Palestinians killed by violence and violently-imposed deprivation as reported by the top medical journal The Lancet and thence by 100 Alternative and Global South media. In an internal memo the New York Times (NYT) ordered its journalists not to use the terms “genocide”, “ethnic cleansing” and “occupied territory” in reporting on Gaza and to avoid using the terms “Palestine” and “refugee camp”. An 11 July NYT article by a Black American followed these instructions  and criticized  The Lancet over inclusion  of  excess (avoidable) deaths from deprivation to estimate 186,000 Gaza deaths  in the present catastrophe*,  but for actually mentioning, albeit disputing, “186,000 deaths”  the NYT was ferociously attacked by Zionists for “grotesque blood libel”.  Now the Zionist- subverted Australian Liberal-National Coalition Opposition and Labor Government (the Lib-Labs) want to prohibit children from accessing the Internet. Present and future decent Australian voters will eschew the Gaza Genocide-complicit and mendacious Lib-Labs and put the Lib-Labs last. *Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, 2nd edition, 540 pages, 2021.  

11 July 2024

As reported by medical experts in the top medical journal The Lancet: “In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186, 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375, 259, this would translate to 7·9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip”. Exhaustive searching has so far revealed no Australian, US, UK, Canadian or Western Mainstream  media reporting this horrific reality, except for the Washington Post  (by Shashi Tharoor’s son Ishaan), The National (Scotland), The Irish Times and Yahoo. In contrast I have found 100 Alternative and Global South media which have reported this huge story. Lying by omission is far worse than lying by commission which at least can be publicly refuted (subject to gate-keepers). Commercial media journalists inevitably bow to their bosses but ABC  journalists are obliged to report honestly to the public that  funds them and which accordingly should sack censoring and lying ABC managers.*Google “Lancet 186,000” and see Gideon Polya, “The Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians Killed By Violence And Imposed Deprivation In Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 9 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/the-lancet-186000-palestinians-killed-by-violence-and-imposed-deprivation-in-gaza-genocide/ .  

10 July 2024

As a Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian with a sole allegiance to Australia and coming from a very famous Ashkenazi Jewish Hungarian family (ask any surgeon or mathematician) I am of course utterly opposed to anti-Semitism  in all its manifestations. Anti-Semitism  occurs in 2 equally repugnant forms, anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against 18 million largely culturally Semitic Jews, and anti-Arab anti-Semitism  against 300 million ethnically and  culturally Semitic Arabs (e.g. Palestinians, Lebanese) and 2,000 million mostly culturally Semitic Muslims (Islamophobia). Naturally I welcome any genuine moves to combat this obscenity in lovely multicultural Australia but indignantly dispute the good faith in this of the anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government that is  blatantly anti-Arab anti-Semitic (complicit in numerous ways in the Gaza Genocide that according to the top medical journal The Lancet has killed 186,000 Palestinians) and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic in 10 horrible ways  (e.g. by backing hatred-engendering genocidal US and Apartheid Israeli atrocities, ignoring eminent anti-racist Jewish opinion, falsely smearing anti-racist Jewish pro-Palestinian human rights protesters  as “anti-Semites” and massively funding the genocidally racist  Zionist brainwashing of innocent Jewish school children). Anti-racist Jewish, non-Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Australians oppose anti-Semitism in all its forms  and will put Labor Last.*Gideon Polya, “Put Labor Last: End Anti-Jewish Anti-Semitic & Gaza Genocide-complicit Australian Labor Government”, Countercurrents, 9 May 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/05/put-labor-last-end-anti-jewish-anti-semitic-gaza-genocide-complicit-australian-labor-government/ ; Gideon Polya, “The Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians Killed By Violence And Imposed Deprivation In Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents,  9 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/the-lancet-186000-palestinians-killed-by-violence-and-imposed-deprivation-in-gaza-genocide/ .

5 July 2024

The arithmetic of Australian decency that children can understand: of 227 Federal MPs  (151 MHRs, 76 Senators) only the 15 Greens, Lidia Thorpe, Dr Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie  have voted for an immediate and permanent Ceasefire in the devastated  Gaza Concentration Camp. Now Senator Fatima Payman, decent Australia’s wonderful  Joan of Arc, has left the pro-Apartheid Israel and hence Apartheid Labor Party (ALP) demanding recognition of the State of Palestine (actual Labor Party policy but not implemented by the unforgivably mendacious, cowardly, Zionist-perverted, US lackey and Gaza Genocide-complicit  Australian Labor Government) and decrying the ongoing Gaza Genocide (45,000 killed so far including 16,000 children, 10,000 women, 19,000 men, 500 health professionals, and 152 courageous, truth-telling journalists). There are presently only 19 decent MPs unequivocally opposing the mass murder of children by Apartheid Israel but one can only hope that  by this time next year there will be 227 with the unforgivably genocide-complicit Labor, Coalition, Teal, and other MPs removed from public life by decent Australian voters who will also put Labor last (Labor is in government and has trashed Australia internationally by making it complicit in the Gaza Genocide). Australia needs de-Nazification. Silence is complicity.

4 July 2024

Wonderful Australian humanitarian scholar, Professor Stuart Rees (founder of the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize, awarded the Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize, and author of “Cruelty or Humanity”), has succinctly stated the shocking Australian reality: “For Labor, Payman breaching caucus rules is worse than Israel committing genocide”*. The Zionist-perverted,  US lackey, pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Australian Labor Government  has in many other ways made Australia complicit in the ongoing Gaza Genocide (including those buried under rubble, 45,000 killed so far, including 16,000 children, 10,000 women, 19,000 men and 500 health professionals). Decent, anti-racist Jewish, non-Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Australians will put unforgivable Labor last (the Coalition is even worse but is not actually in government). Silence is complicity.*Stuart Rees, “For Labor, Payman breaching caucus rules is worse than Israel committing genocide”, Pearls & Irritations, 4 July 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/for-labor-payman-breaching-caucus-rules-is-worse-than-israel-committing-genocide/ .  

3 July 2024

Decent Australians, led by the Greens, Lidia Thorpe and Senator Fatima Payman, are utterly opposed to the Jewish Israeli mass murder in Gaza of children (16,000), women (10,000), men (19,000) and health professionals (500), and want an immediate and permanent  Ceasefire and recognition of the State of Palestine. However the mendacious, Zionist-perverted and Orwellian Labor Government that has made Australia complicit in the Gaza Genocide, utterly falsely accuses the decent Greens and pro-Palestinian human rights protesters of bringing foreign troubles into Australia, exploiting the Palestinian tragedy for cynical political reasons, and damaging social cohesion and multiculturalism. The British duo Flanders and Swann had a song about a cannibal chief’s son  who repeatedly declared “I won’t eat people, I won’t eat people, eating people is wrong” but satire has become reality in Zionist-subverted, US lackey Australia: the big story is not the utterly unforgivable, US-backed Jewish Israeli mass murder of children but Senator Payman being expelled from the Labor Caucus for following her conscience, crossing the floor and voting for recognition of the State of Palestine. Anti-racist Jewish, non-Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Australians will put Labor last (the Coalition is even worse but is not in government).  

2 July 2024

The courageous and Labor Party values-affirming Senator Fatima Payman has broken ranks with the anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic Labor Government to cross the floor and vote with the Greens for condemnation  of the genocidal Gaza Massacre by Jewish Israelis and recognition of the State of Palestine that is actually Labor Party policy. The Labor Government further deceived the electorate by refusing to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as demanded by the Labor Party (such ratification would forbid any Australian military collaboration with the nuclear terrorist states of the US, UK, Apartheid Israel and France). The Labor Government is also anti-Jewish anti-Semitic: it  rejects  advice from eminent anti-racist Jewish Australians from Sir Isaac Isaacs to Professor Peter Singer, and indeed a large body of patriotic and anti-racist Jewish Australians such as myself, but chooses to take advice from genocidally racist, egregiously mendacious, traitorous,  genocide-complicit and fervently Apartheid Israel-supporting and hence Apartheid-supporting Zionist fanatics. Decent anti-racist  Australian voters will put Labor last because it is actually in government (unlike the appalling Coalition), is anti-Arab and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, nuclear terrorist, climate criminal, mendacious, war criminal, traitorous* and has unforgivably made Australia complicit in the Gaza Genocide. * Gideon Polya, “Submission To National Anti-Corruption Commission: Australian Labor Government’s Lying For Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 22 July 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/07/submission-to-national-anti-corruption-commission-australian-labor-governments-lying-for-apartheid-israel/ .

28 June 2024

Save the Children (24 June 2024): “Up to 21,000 children are estimated to be missing in the chaos of the war in Gaza, many trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or lost from their families”. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor estimates 16,000 children killed so far. This is an utterly unforgivable, anti-Semitic Zionist crime and leaves anti-racist Jewish Australians such as myself distressed and beyond anger. Yet the only member of the Australian Labor Government to have condemned this ongoing atrocity, Afghan Australian Senator Fatima Payman, has been excluded from the Labor Caucus for crossing the floor to protest the ongoing Gaza Genocide and demand recognition of the State of Palestine (that is actually  Labor Party policy). The World has 2 kinds of people, those who oppose the  mass murder of children and the utterly unforgivable others. Anti-racist Jewish, non-Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Australians will put Labor last - the Coalition is even worse but  the Labor Government must be punished for the actual crime of “complicity in genocide”  (Article IIIe, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment  of the Crime of Genocide). Silence kills and silence is complicity.* Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .

26 June 2024

I just emerged from a week in  our brilliant if underfunded  hospital  system involving  a 3-hour operation by skilled surgical and anaesthetic specialists, severe postoperative complications requiring an emergency ambulance trip to another hospital, and  further expert care by wonderful doctors and nurses. Yet on 31 May according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): “Only 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are functional, all of them partially, facing critical shortages”.  As of Day 250 of this latest Gaza Massacre and including the  dead under rubble, 45,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 41,000 civilians, 16,000 children, 10,000 women, and 400 health care professionals (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor). However I also  emerged to see that Australian and world hero Julian Assange  has been released from 12 years of awful incarceration by  Australia’s war-making AUKUS partners for telling the awful truth about US wars. And I was greatly heartened that Senator Fatima Payman courageously broke ranks to condemn the Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide – just  one Labor MP  that can get the vote of anti-racist Australians including anti- racist Jewish, non-Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Australians who will  otherwise put Labor last for Gaza Genocide complicity.

19 June 2024

In the face of 45,000 Palestinians killed in the ongoing Gaza Massacre, including 16,000 children and 10,000 women (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor), the civilized world demands  an immediate and permanent cessation of the horrific killing, mangling and gross human rights abuse as summarized by the title of my huge book “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel,  human rights denial, Gaza Massacre, child-killing, occupation and Palestinian Genocide”.   The world has 2 kinds of people, those opposed to the mass murder of children and the unforgivable others. Unfortunately the pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid  Australian Labor Government has made Australia complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways, from egregious lying to massive support for the genocidal Israeli arms industry. Anti-racist and  hence anti-Apartheid  Jewish Australians such as myself (and indeed all anti-racist Australians) will put Labor last – genocide-complicit  governments must be punished at the ballot box.  

18 June 2024

As a scientist and Humanist, for 3 decades I have been researching, writing  and publishing detailed and exhaustively referenced articles (about 1,000) and huge books (9, including massively updated revised editions) about huge life and death realities resolutely  ignored by Australian and Western Mainstream media and politicians. However the silence has been deafening. Undaunted, I have made 5 huge and exhaustively documented  Submissions to the recently established Australian  Federal National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) dealing with huge fraud matters (variously involving hundreds of millions to trillions of dollars), namely (1) the Australian Labor Government’s lying for Apartheid Israel, (2) huge but ignored Australian war crimes, (3) corporations and governments ignoring  huge Carbon Debt, (4) huge and fraudulent university fees exposed, and (5) Mainstream media lying.* All except possibly (1) have been rejected by the NACC which has also rejected inquiring into Robodebt.  In Orwellian contrast, the similar New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) secured the resignation of an honourable NSW premier over non-reportage of a gifted $3,000 bottle of wine. Tell government silence is complicity. Hold governments responsible, ergo put Labor last. *Gideon Polya, “Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission Rejects Submissions Re Huge Australian War Crimes and Carbon Debt”, Countercurrents, 2 October 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/10/australian-national-anti-corruption-commission-rejects-submissions-re-huge-australian-war-crimes-and-carbon-debt/ .

17 June 2024

According  to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, as of 12 June 2024  - Day 250 since the Palestinian Breakout  from the Gaza Concentration Camp on 7 October 2023 -  over 45,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 41,000 civilians, 16,000 children and 10,000 women in the ongoing Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide. Densely populated Gaza has been reduced to rubble with 2.3 million traumatized Gazans (half of them children) mostly deprived of proper shelter, water, food, sanitation, medicine and medical care by war criminal occupation, siege and bombing.  After 69 Africans were killed in the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre the World imposed rigorous sanctions on Apartheid South Africa until Apartheid ended in 1994. After 45,000 Gazans killed by Apartheid Israel the decent World will impose  rigorous Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Apartheid Israel and all its supporters, including countries involved in arms supply and  huge arms deals (notably the US, Germany, UK and Australia) and in other military cooperation with Israel (notably 29 countries involved together with Apartheid Israel and Australia in the huge 2024 US RIMPAC naval exercises in the Pacific). Decent  Australians will utterly reject the Gaza Genocide-complicit, pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Labor Government and put Labor last. *Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .  

11 June 2024

The Palestinian Government Media Office  reports  150 journalists killed in the period 7 October 2023 -9 June 2024 (i.e. 246 days or 0.671 years) in Gaza  (territory population 2.3 million).“Journalists  killed per year per  10 million of territory population” = 10 x (150  journalists killed/0.671 years) / (2.3 million territory population) = 971.9 for Gaza as compared to the average  in recent years for the following countries (listed in descending  order of the total number of journalists killed per year): Mexico (0.750), Afghanistan ( 2.563), Syria (4.733), India ( 0.027), Yemen (1.278), Iraq (0.897), Pakistan (0.152), Philippines (0.283), Somalia (1.751), and Colombia (0.366) (the  World average was 0.084). As assessed 2 years after the Jewish Israeli IDF murder of famed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh*,  during the present Gaza Massacre Gaza is 971.9 /4.733 = 205 times worse for the killing of journalists than the next worst territory, Syria. In US-beholden and Zionist-perverted Australia is there just one Mainstream journalist able or prepared to quantitatively report that, to a horrifyingly enormous extent, in Gaza Israel is the world leader for killing journalists? Silence is complicity. * Gideon Polya, “Remember Shireen Abu Akleh: Apartheid Israel Leads The World For Killing Journalists”, Countercurrents, 6 June 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/remember-shireen-abu-akleh-apartheid-israel-leads-the-world-for-killing-journalists/ .

10 June 2024

The US- and Zionist-beholden Labor Government and Coalition Opposition are falsely attacking the anti-war and pro-human rights Greens for their consistent demand for Palestinian human rights and a permanent and immediate Ceasefire in Gaza. Indeed the only members voting for this in Federal Parliament have been the Greens, Lidia Thorpe, Dr Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie. Labor Senator Fatima Payman has courageously condemned the  Gaza Genocide, gross human rights denial  and the 57-year Occupation. Out of 227 Federal MPs there are now only 19 existing MPs that anti-racist Australian voters can vote 1 for in future elections. Martin Luther King (1967): “Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’” and Albert Camus (1946): “And henceforth, the only honourable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions”. The unforgivable crime of 16,000  children and 10,000 women  killed so far in the Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide means former Labor voters such as myself will  vote 1 for Greens (or like-minded folk) and put Labor last for complicity in genocide * Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .

7 June 2024.

A misogynist, sexist, racist, ultranationalist and pathological liar, former US president Donald Trump told 30,000 lies as president and has been convicted as a felon over a victim-less dishonesty. What is resolutely ignored  in the flood of related reportage by US and US-beholden Western Mainstream media is that Trump and 45 other US presidents remain un-convicted for deadly war crimes and other horrendous genocidal crimes committed by genocidally racist America since 1776 from the American Indian Genocide to the ongoing Palestinian Genocide in the devastated Gaza Concentration Camp.

Bomb-supplying America and Joe Biden are stained with the blood of 16,000 murdered Palestinian children. Decent people around the World will urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against child-killing Apartheid Israel, child-killing, pro-Apartheid America  and all people, parties, corporations and countries supporting these child-killing and genocidal states. In Australia, ruled by a Gaza Genocide-complicit, US lackey, pro-Apartheid Israel and pro-Apartheid Labor Government, and with an even worse Coalition Opposition, decent people will (a) put Labor last  in Australia’s preferential voting system, and (b) demand that Australia leave the nuclear-armed and region- and world-destabilizing  AUKUS Alliance.

5 June 2024

The deaths in the first 220 days of the latest Gaza Massacre (including those buried in rubble) have totalled 44,000, this including 16,000 children, 10,000 women, 40,000 civilians, 371 healthcare professionals, 45 civil defence workers and 141 journalists (Euro-Med Human Rights Watch). However this unforgivable carnage is obfuscated by false media coverage about alleged anti-Jewish anti-Semitism at pro-Palestinian human rights rallies and on university campuses.

An anti-racist Jewish Australian, I have attended  most of the weekly Melbourne CBD Sunday rallies for  Gaza (12 noon, State Library). They were all large (5,000-40,000 people) and  peaceful.  The  anti-Zionist Jews present were enthusiastically applauded, and anti-racist Jews were typically routinely involved as rally speakers.

However Zionists and the US lackey and hence pro-Zionist Coalition and Labor politicians, not content with violating Humanity’s core  ethos of Kindness and Truth, are now demanding judicially-enforced Orwellian Newspeak with the Arabic “intifada” (“shaking off”) to mean  “terrorism”,  and “from the river to the sea Palestine  will be free” to mean “genocide”. There are those who oppose the mass murder of children and the utterly unforgivable others. Anti-racist Australians will put Labor last for making Australia complicit in the Gaza Genocide.

29 May 2024

“Prisoners killed per year per million of prisoner population” was  22.9 (Australian POWs killed by the Japanese in WW2), whereas for Jewish Israeli killing of inmates of the Gaza Concentration Camp as of Day 220 of the Gaza Massacre  it was  86.2 (for total Gaza  population), 132.3 (adult males), 66.7 (children), and 76.3 (adult females).

As of Day 220 Apartheid Israel has killed 43,640 Gazans including 15,971 children out of a total Israel/Palestine population of 15.1 million. In WW2 1.5 million Jewish children were killed over 6 years  out of a Nazi-occupied Europe population of 280 million. “Children killed per year per million of total administered territory population“ was 893 (for Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Europe) as compared to 1,756 (for Gaza children killed in Jewish Israeli-ruled Palestine “from the river to the sea”).

As of Day 220 the Occupied /Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio was 43,640/1,200 = 36.4, 3.6 times greater than the Reprisals Death Ratio of 10 ordered by Nazi mass murderer Hitler and immediately effected in the 1944  Ardeatine Massacre in Rome.

Nazi is as Nazi does, terrorist is as terrorist does, and silence is complicity – ergo, put Labor last for unforgivable genocide complicity.

28 May 2024

On 16 May the Zionist-subverted Australian Senate voted 56-12 for an Orwellian Coalition-introduced motion  falsely condemning the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as “antisemitic” and “intimidatory”. Only the 11 Greens Senators  and ex-Green Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe voted against  the motion. To anti-racist Jewish, non-Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Australians  the slogan simply means exactly what it says: equal and all human rights for everyone everywhere in Palestine.

Indeed B’Tselem (the eminent, authoritative, and anti-racist Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) correctly described Israeli Apartheid thus: “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid”.

However a 1977 election manifesto of the extreme right-wing Jewish Israeli political party Likud asserted that “between the sea and the Jordan there will be only Israeli sovereignty”. Indeed the present racist, Likud-dominated Apartheid Israeli Government rejects both a 2-state solution and a non-racist 1-state  solution. Decent, anti-racist  Jewish and non-Jewish Australians will vote 1 for the  Greens (or  like-minded people) and put Labor last because the Labor Government must be punished for its unforgivable complicity in 20 ways in the Gaza Genocide.*

*Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .

23 May 2024

Condemned by the US, Israel and the Coalition, the ICC has commenced war crimes prosecutions against Hamas and Netanyahu. Hamas killed at most 1,200 Israelis on 7 October  2023  (1,170 adults and 30 children) and took 250 hostages (however most Israeli deaths may have been caused by the high explosive firepower of the IDF response).

In comparison, as of 13 May 2024  (Day 220 of the Gaza Massacre) Israel has killed 43,640 Palestinians in Gaza (this including  17,287 men, 15,971 children, and 10,382 women) and holds about 10,000 Palestinian hostages in military prisons in Israel, as well as 5.6 million Occupied Palestinians held hostage under military rule including 2.3 million in the Gaza Concentration Camp (1,212,100 adults, 618,171 women,  593,929 men, and 1,087,900 children).

34,000 Australians died in service in WW2 including 8,031 killed out of 22,376 Australian POWs held by the Japanese from 15 February 1942 to 12 September 1945 (15,706 days).

“People killed per day per million of relevant prisoner population” (i.e. Australian POWs held by the Japanese or  Gaza adults, men, children and women): 22.9 (Australian POWs) versus in Gaza 86.2 (total population), 132.3 (men), 66.7 (children), and 76.3 (women). Punish all war criminals. Silence is complicity.

18 May 2024

Congratulations to Labor Senator Fatima Payman for her moral courage in condemning the ongoing Gaza Genocide, Occupation and horrific violation of Palestinian human rights.

As an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and humanitarian writer with a sole allegiance to Australia I am endlessly horrified by the false conflation of Apartheid Israel and its genocidal crimes with all Jews (i.e. including anti-racist Jews) by Labor, Coalition and many other MPs.

Indeed the anti-racist Jewish Council of Australia has stated: “The Jewish Council of Australia sends Fatima Payman a big mazel tov for her courage in breaking with the party line and strongly speaking out against Israel’s genocide. It should not be controversial to use this terminology as it is in line with the finding of the International Court of Justice that Israel’s action’s constitute a plausible genocide”.

The Australian Senate voted 56-12 on 16 May for a Coalition-introduced motion  to falsely condemn “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as anti-Semitic. The reverse is true: the Senate in effect declared that the Semitic  Palestinians should  not be free.

Thanks also to Senator Payman for defending the decent soul of Australia.

14 May 2024

As of 3 weeks ago the death toll of Palestinians in Gaza totalled an unforgivable 43,000,  including  16,000 children and 10,000 women. However in Zionist-subverted Australia and America the big news is about Jewish students feeling “fearful” and false  claims by  Zionists,  politicians, and university bosses about asserted “antisemitism” by  protesters decrying the carnage and demanding human rights for Palestinians.

An anti-racist Jewish Australian Humanist with a sole allegiance to Australia I have attended  most of the huge and utterly peaceful Melbourne Sunday Rallies for Gaza (5,000-40,000 people, every Sunday, 12 noon, Victorian State Library). The rallies all warmly applauded  anti-racist Jewish supporters and the rally speakers typically included wonderful Jewish activists. Wandering around with a huge double-sided placard reading WORLD: STOP PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE and  BOYCOTT APARTHEID ISRAEL I invariably encountered admirable Jewish participants.

The scholarly author (mostly overseas) of a thousand huge humanitarian articles and 10 huge books (including several massively updated revised editions) I have been rendered almost invisible to Orwellian Mainstream Australia over the last dozen years  by  Mainstream gate-keepers and false Zionist defamation – real and highly damaging anti-Jewish anti-Semitism tolerated by the unforgivable,  Zionist-subverted and Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor and  Coalition rejected by the decent young.   

6 May 2024

As an anti-racist Jewish Australian with a sole allegiance to Australia I applaud the ABC finding the courage to broadcast a Compass program about wonderful and acclaimed anti-racist Jewish Australian writer Antony Loewenstein  (“My Israel Question”, “Pills, Powder and Smoke”, “Disaster Capitalism” and “The Palestine Laboratory”).

In keeping with the multi-millennial humanitarian Jewish tradition from the Ten Commandments and wonderful Jesus to Hannah Arendt and Howard Zinn, Antony Loewenstein condemns the gross human rights denial and genocide inflicted  by racist  Zionists on Indigenous Palestinians for over a century. He is not alone – a recent survey of US Jews found that 25% agreed that Israel was an Apartheid state, with 38% of those under 40 agreeing with this proposition.

I voted Labor 1 most of my life but Labor’s climate inaction shifted me to vote Greens 1 and Labor 2 a dozen years ago. The Australian Government’s manifold and unforgivable  support for Apartheid Israel in its horrific and ongoing Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide*  means that they must be punished at the ballot box, and that decent anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish voters will be compelled to put Labor last. Inaction is complicity.

3 May 2024

As an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist, secular Humanist and  humanitarian writer, I applaud the student protests at many Australian  universities for Palestinian human rights, and particularly the Palestinian right to life. Thus Euro-Med Human  Rights Monitor estimated (23 April 2024) that taking into account the dead under rubble, 42,510 Palestinian had been killed in Gaza, including 15,780 children, 10,091 women, 38,621 civilians, and 137 journalists, with 79,240 injured and 2 million out of 2.3 million  displaced.

The indignant but peaceful protests for Palestinian human rights by anti-racist non-Jewish and Jewish Australian university  students have been falsely condemned as “social cohesion”-threatening and “anti-Semitism” by Labor and Coalition  politicians and by Mainstream media, this being faithfully reported by the taxpayer-funded ABC that practices a “balance”  that is actually cowardly and dishonest “2-side-ism”.

There is real and damaging anti-Jewish anti-Semitism in Australia that is directed against the very best of Jews, the anti-racist Jews who believe in all human rights  for all, “never again to anyone”,  and are utterly opposed to the unforgivable mass murder of children by US- and US Alliance-backed Apartheid Israel. Silence is complicity. [Published by the Australian Financial Review].

PS. Via Amazon see Gideon Polya’s  “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide” (2024):  https://www.amazon.com/Free-Palestine-Apartheid-Occupation-Palestinian/dp/8793987714 .

18 April 2024

By 3 April 2024 (Day 180 of the Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Massacre) 42,000 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza  including 38,000 civilians, 15,000 children, 10,000 women, 349 health workers, 196 aid workers, and 136 journalists, with 77,000 injured (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, including those dead under rubble). Meanwhile the World looks on, the US Alliance and Australia back Apartheid Israel, and the US Congress considers a further $14 billion for Israel’s Gaza Massacre.

The World must demand that (a) the killing must stop immediately and permanently, and (b) Apartheid  Israel  should be permanently ordered out of Occupied Palestine to permit Palestinian self-determination and rapid entry of (a)  life-saving sustenance and medical teams, and (b) forensic teams to examine all those murdered by the war criminal Jewish Israelis.

How to stop the Palestinian  Genocide immediately: (a) the World (UN General Assembly and UN Security Council) must immediately, specifically and effectually accord all Palestinians all the human rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and (b) all those countries effectively opposing this unexceptional measure (predictably the US, Apartheid Israel, US Alliance and Australia) should be subject to draconian global sanctions.

13 April 2024

US-beholden Australia is deeply complicit in 20 ways in  the century-long Palestinian Genocide including the horrific and ongoing Gaza Massacre (40,000 Palestinians killed so far, 15,000 being children).*  The only MPs in the Federal Australian Parliament to support an immediate and permanent Ceasefire in Gaza have been the Greens, ex-Green Lidia Thorpe, and the Independents Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie.

Senator Jordon Steele-John (Greens spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Peace): “Instead of helping to end the violence, this government continues to sell military equipment to Israel, cut aid to Palestinians and refuses to back an International Court of Justice investigation. These actions are making our nation complicit in a genocide”.

The Palestinian Genocide in Gaza by US- and US Alliance-backed Jewish Israelis is utterly unforgivable -  anti-racist Australians (and anti-racist Jewish Australians like me in particular) simply cannot support genocide-complicit Labor, the genocide-complicit Coalition or indeed any genocide-complicit people.

Genocide-complicit people should worry -  Article 3 of the UN Genocide  Convention states: “The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide ; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.” Silence is complicity.

*Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ .  

12 April 2024

2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust in Hungary. Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944 and deported over 400,000 out of 800,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, most to their deaths. Churchill vetoed the Brand plan to save the Hungarian Jews (my people) by trading them for 10,000 tonnes of cocoa, coffee, tea and soap.  

However in 2022 an evidently unrepentant neo-Nazi Germany, like Labor-ruled Australia, voted No to the annual UNGA Anti-Nazi Resolution, and in  2024 has a  major complicity in the ongoing Jewish Israeli-imposed Palestinian Genocide in the Gaza Concentration Camp through arms supply, withholding UNRWA aid, fervent support for Apartheid Israel at the UN and in UN agencies, threats to pro-Palestinian human rights activists, and massive Orwellian lying in support of Apartheid Israel. *

So far over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza including 15,000 children, yet in the Australian Federal Parliament only the Greens, Lidia Thorpe, Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie have supported an immediate and permanent Ceasefire. Decent anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish  Australians simply cannot  vote for an unforgivably genocide-complicit, pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Labor. The Coalition is even worse. We must bear witness. Silence is complicity.

*Gideon Polya, “Unrepentant Neo-Nazi Germany Complicit In Palestinian Genocide & Ongoing Gaza Massacre”, Countercurrents, 11 April 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/unrepentant-neo-nazi-germany-complicit-in-palestinian-genocide-ongoing-gaza-massacre/ .

10 April 2024

Unmoved by (a) over 40,000 Palestinians killed including 15,000 children in the ongoing  Gaza Genocide, and the existential threats to Humanity from (b) nuclear weapons and (c) climate change, the cowardly, neoliberal, US lackey and Zionist-perverted Australian Labor Government still refuses to follow  Labor Party policy and (a) recognize the State of Palestine, (b) sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and (c) take requisite urgent action on Australia’s world-leading Exported greenhouse gas pollution.

The only Federal MPs to support an immediate and permanent Ceasefire in Gaza have been the Greens, ex-Green Lidia Thorpe and the Independents Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie. Yet the Labor Government  adds to its unforgivable crimes  by falsely accusing the Greens of  exploiting  the Gaza atrocity for political advantage.

For me  as an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist, scholar and humanitarian with a sole allegiance to Australia this is the last straw. The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth but decent Australians simply cannot vote for  a Gaza Genocide-complicit, US nuclear terrorism-complicit, climate criminal and egregiously mendacious Labor Government. The Coalition is even worse. Poor fellow my country.

5 April 2024

Like other anti-racist Jewish Australians I demand an immediate and permanent end to the Gaza Genocide and the 57-year, war criminal and grossly human rights-violating Apartheid Israeli Occupation.

After 180 days of Jewish Israeli mass murder in Gaza (over 40,000 Palestinians killed including 15,000 children, and over 330 life-sustaining healthcare workers killed, 196 deprivation- and famine-addressing aid workers killed and over 134 genocide-reporting journalists killed) the utterly despicable, unforgivable, cowardly, Gaza Genocide-complicit, Zionist-beholden and US lackey  Australian Labor Government (no doubt informed by its sine qua non electoral considerations, deeply-angered focus groups and the utterly hypocritical concerns of bomb-supplying, genocide-complicit and  geriatric child killer Biden) has finally found the courage to risk Zionist backlash and condemn the Apartheid Israeli murder of heroic Australian aid worker  Zomi Frankcom.

The unspeakable Coalition still backs Apartheid Israel over this atrocity that also severely challenges polite discourse in Orwellian, look-the-other-way, pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid  Australia - while Labor are Ankles (lower than the anatomical proverbials) the Coalition are Soles (cannot get any lower).

4 April 2024

The Jewish Israeli military say that the IDF killing of heroic Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her 6 colleagues was an “accident”, and the Apartheid Israeli PM Netanyahu has stated “This happens in wartime”.  However this is belied by the sustained IDF killing of aid workers and the journalists reporting Jewish Israeli atrocities.

Thus from BBC and Euro-Med data, 196 aid workers killed by Jewish Israelis over 180 days  in the besieged and bombed Gaza Concentration Camp means an average of about 1 killed  per day,  and 134 journalists killed over 160 days  in Gaza also means an average of about 1 killed per day – damning evidence of sustained killing by the IDF.

For comparison, of 22,376 Australian POWs under the Japanese,  8,031 died over the 15,706 days from 8 February 1942 (fall of Singapore) to 2 September 1945 (Japanese surrender) i.e. an average of 0.5 Australian POWs were killed per day by the Japanese war criminals.

Yet it has taken 180 days of killing (over 40,000 Palestinians killed including 15,000 children) and the murder of  Zomi Frankcom for the Zionist-beholden and cowardly Australian Labor government to finally vigorously protest. Decent anti-racist Australians simply cannot vote Labor.

15 March 2024

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reporting the Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide for the period  7 October 2023- 5 March 2024: including  those buried in rubble, 39,178 killed, (14,622 children, 8,896 women, 35,490 civilians), 73,300 injured, 132 journalists killed.* As reported by ABC “Four Corners” on  11 March, a Jewish Israeli general said the killing may continue for several years.

Apartheid South Africa was banned from the Olympics from 1964-1994  after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre by South African police in which 69 Africans were killed and 180 injured. Apartheid Israel should likewise face a global sporting ban after about 40,000 people killed in Gaza, this including  an Olympic football coach, a FIFA referee, dozens of players, athletes, and technical staff.

Apartheid Israel has destroyed the Palestinian Olympic Committee offices, turned sports facilities into shameful mass detention and torture centres, and bombed most major stadiums across Gaza. Decent Australians must support a sporting ban on genocidal Apartheid Israel in addition to condemning the unforgivably Gaza Genocide-complicit, pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Australian Labor Government. PS. My children, like fantastic Sam Kerr, are Bengali Australians.

*Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor report of deaths for 7 October 2023- 5 March 2024 on X: https://twitter.com/EuroMedHR/status/1765230242946285956.

11 March 2024

As of Day 151 (5 March) of the latest Jewish Israeli Gaza Massacre there  have been 39,178 Palestinians killed including 14,622 children and 8,896 women (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor). The “excuse“ offered by Jewish Israelis and their mass murder-complicit  Zionist  and pro-Zionist supporters (notably the Murdoch media, the taxpayer-funded ABC and the  Australian Labor Government) is the death of 1,200 Israelis in the 7 October Palestinian Breakout from Gaza.

The  IDF response with tank shelling and helicopter Hellfire missiles was responsible for many of these deaths. Indeed fire-zone deaths are typically proportional to firepower (why the per capita homicide rate in Australia  is 8 times less than that in the US). Accordingly the IDF may well have caused most of these deaths.

Conservatively assuming that the IDF caused 50% of the 1,200 Israeli deaths on 7 October, the Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio is presently 39,178/ 600 = 65.3, 6.5 times greater than the 10 ordered by Nazi mass murderer Hitler and subsequently effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre. Nazi is as Nazi does. Terrorism is as terrorism does. Silence is complicity. Anti-racist Jewish (like me) and non-Jewish Australians will put unforgivably genocide-complicit and pro-Apartheid Israel Labor last.

4 March 2024

As a Jewish Holocaust–impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian/Tasmanian scholar with a sole national allegiance to Australia I am inescapably bound by the core moral messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and indeed from all holocausts and genocides, namely  zero tolerance for lying, zero tolerance for racism, never again to anyone, and bear witness – tell the truth for the voiceless.

We truthfully say that ”The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor” without  quibbling about the 3.5% Korean conscripts in the Imperial Japanese armed forces. Likewise, compulsory military service for most Jewish Israelis means that except for 1% non-Jewish volunteers,  only Jewish Israelis are killing Palestinian children, mothers, women and men in the ongoing Gaza Genocide – irremovable shame on the child-killing war criminals, the Jewish Australians among them, and their Jewish and non-Jewish Zionist supporters. 

After 5 months of the Jewish Israeli-executed Gaza Genocide, over 14,000 children killed and over 100,000 Palestinians killed, missing or injured, in the Australian Federal Parliament only the Greens, Lidia Thorpe, Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie have supported an immediate and permanent ceasefire. The Coalition, Labor and like-minded other MPs unforgivably support child-killing Apartheid Israel. Decent, child-loving Australian voters must ask:  Coalition or Labor, who to put last?

29 February 2024

It could only happen in look-the-other-way Australia – the nation’s politicians and media  disingenuously ask  who is this ASIO-asserted singular politician acting for another  country? As reported by Australian Mainstream media (a) shamefully  still-imprisoned world hero Julian Assange’s Wikileaks named  2 Labor MPs reporting on Labor caucus meetings to the US Embassy, (b)  of the order of  1,000 Australian politicians, journalists and other  “influencers” have been given generous trips to Apartheid Israel so that support for this genocidal entity  and its fanatical supporters is now entrenched in Australia, and (c) leading politicians have gained lucrative jobs in retirement after enabling  acquisition of massive military contracts or strategic assets for foreign countries.

Former  PMs  Malcolm Fraser and Paul Keating, and former FMs Bob Carr and Gareth Evans variously warned against such subversion of Australia. John Pilger exposed the US and  UK parties to the 1975 Coup. Of  5 huge, detailed and documented Submissions I made to the newly-formed  NACC one  may have survived rejection, namely a detailed account of the Australian Labor Government lying for Apartheid Israel*.  “Governments lie” (famed anti-racist Jewish American journalist  I.F. Stone) but lying and subversion for inimical foreign powers is treason.

*Gideon Polya, “Submission To National Anti-Corruption Commission: Australian Labor Government’s Lying For Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 22 July 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2023/07/submission-to-national-anti-corruption-commission-australian-labor-governments-lying-for-apartheid-israel/ .

27 February 2024

According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor by  Day 140  of the Gaza Massacre (23 February 2024) Palestinian deaths in Gaza totalled 38,066,  including 34,570 civilians, 14,350 children, 8,620 women, and 130 journalists with 71,220 injured. This ongoing massacre through violence and deadly deprivation is in reprisals for 1,200 Israelis killed in the 7 October Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp (nearly all being past, serving or reservist military, 30 being children, and many killed by high explosive tank shelling and helicopter Hellfire missiles from the responding IDF,  but Israel has been burying the evidence).

Only the Greens, ex-Green Lidia Thorpe, Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie have voted Yes in Federal Parliament for an immediate and permanent  Ceasefire. The World contains 2 kinds of people, those opposing the mass murder of children and the unforgivable others. Silence is complicity.  The No-voting and hence Gaza  Genocide-complicit Coalition, Labor and Independent MPs are thus unforgivable others.

The Coalition are in opposition and don’t know any better, but Labor is in government and know that their position is unforgivably wrong. Utterly appalled Australian voters  ask themselves:  put the Coalition or Labor last?  

18 February 2024

Terrorism is as terrorism does. Careful analysis reveals that 49,000 Occupied Palestinians were violently killed by  Jewish Israelis in the period 2000 to mid-February 2024 (Israeli B’Tselem and Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor). In contrast, Occupier Jewish Israelis killed in the same period totalled 1,900 (conservatively assuming that half of the 1,200 killed on 7 October were killed by high explosive IDF shells and missiles). The Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio was 49,000/1,900 = 26 as compared to the 10 ordered by Hitler and effected immediately in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Rome.

The homicide rate for Israelis is about 20 per million per year, the average Israeli population since 2000 was about 7.5 million, and accordingly from 2000 onwards about 3,750 Israelis were murdered by fellow Israelis versus about 1,900 Israelis killed by Occupied Palestinians and 49,000 Occupied Palestinians violently killed by Jewish Israelis. However the IDF has not reduced Tel Aviv, Haifa and West Jerusalem to rubble as with Gaza. Apartheid Israel leads the world in killing journalists* and the IDF killed over 127 journalists (and over 14,000 children) in Gaza since 7 October 2023. ABC journalists in particular must be allowed to report these awful truths.

*Gideon Polya, “Remember Shireen Abu Akleh: Apartheid Israel Leads The World For Killing Journalists”, Countercurrents, 6 June 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/remember-shireen-abu-akleh-apartheid-israel-leads-the-world-for-killing-journalists/ .

15 February 2024

The Victorian government signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel's defence ministry in December 2022. There is a massive 2-way arms trade between Israel and Australia. Australia has been soiled by extensive military research collaborations between Apartheid Israel and Australia universities, most notoriously between Melbourne University and F-35-producing Lockheed and between RMIT and Elbit systems.

Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, Elbit Systems and an arms-related AI Centre of Excellence operate in Victoria with enthusiastic Labor government backing. Various Victorian companies provide key parts to the Israeli war machine, notably to  the Lebanon-, Syria- and Gaza-bombing F-35s. Indeed only Israel is permitted to modify the US F-35 for improved killing. This  week a genocide-cognizant Netherlands court ordered the Dutch government to stop exporting parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel. Such a ban has yet to eventuate in Gaza Genocide-complicit Australia  that is second only to the US as a supporter of Apartheid Israel and hence of the heinous crime of Apartheid.

Informed Victorians and indeed Australians voting for either Labor or the even worse Coalition make themselves unforgivably complicit in the IDF mass murder of Indigenous Palestinian children in Gaza (Euro-Med Human Rights: 14,000 children killed by mid-February 2024).  

14 February 2024

A week after the commencement of the latest Gaza Massacre on  7 October 2023, the only Australian Federal Parliamentarians to support an immediate Ceasefire were the 11 Greens Senators, the 4 Greens Members of  the House of Representatives (MHRs) and ex-Green Senator Lidia Thorpe.

According  to Euro-Med Human Rights Watch, after 100 days of the Gaza Massacre, 100,000 Palestinians were killed, missing or wounded, and 31,497 Palestinians had been killed including  12,345 children, 6,471 women and 245 health workers.

Now after 4 months of Jewish Israeli mass murder of Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza, 91 MHRs have again overwhelmingly rejected a Greens Ceasefire motion (backed by the 4 Greens MHRs Adam Bandt, Stephen Bates, Max Chandler-Mather and Elizabeth Watson-Brown, 2 Independents, Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie, and no doubt by all anti-racist  Jewish and non-Jewish Australians) (see Australian House of Representatives, “Middle East”, Hansard, 7 February 2024).

Silence is complicity - decent Australians simply cannot vote for Coalition, Labor and Independent politicians and like-minded candidates thus unforgivably complicit in the ongoing mass murder of children, mothers, women and civilian men. Shame Australia, shame.

12 February 2024

Despite a century-long Palestinian Genocide involving 2 million deaths from imposed deprivation, 70,000 violent deaths and 3 mass population expulsion events (800,000 or 60% of the Indigenous population expelled in the 1948 Nakba, 0.4 million expelled in the 1967 Naksa, 1.5 million  forced out of northerly Gaza in 2023-2024, and 2.3 million facing expulsion into the Egyptian desert), 7.6 million Indigenous Palestinians represent 52% of the Subjects of Apartheid Israel but 73% of them (the Occupied Palestinians) have no human  rights under highly abusive military rule and cannot vote for the government ruling them (Apartheid).

The US, UK, Australia and other Western countries remain fervent supporters  of war criminal Apartheid Israel and are variously complicit in its genocidal crimes (Australia provides arms, trade,  weapons targeting, intelligence and diplomatic support). Decent people (and especially the indignant young) have a message to politicians of the complicit Western duopolies (the US Republican/Democrat, UK Conservative/Labour and Australian Coalition/Labor duopolies): We cannot vote for those oppressing those who cannot vote.  A Third Party Revolution (Greens and Socialists) is coming  led by non-voting children opposed to unforgivable Israeli mass murder of children and the worsening existential threats from poverty, nuclear weapons  and climate change.

2 February 2024

The New Testament, Matthew 18.21-22: “21. Then Peter came to Him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times? 22. And Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times, but until seventy times seven”. In terms of child killing in the latest Gaza Massacre US-, West- and Australia-backed Apartheid Israel has unforgivably sinned not merely 491 times but over 12,345 times. Thus  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (13/1/24): “On 100th day of Gaza genocide: 100,000 Palestinians killed, missing or wounded … A total of 31,497 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed… including 12,345 children, 6,471 women, 295 health personnel”.

The unforgivable Australian Labor Government has exceeded its 490 quota by opposing a ceasefire in October and now joining the US Alliance in withholding its contribution to UNRWA based on claims by the mendacious Israelis. According  to Pulitzer Prize-winning  American journalist Chris Hedges the cuts to UNRWA funding “will accelerate the horror, turning the attacks, starvation, lack of health care and spread of infectious diseases in Gaza into a tidal wave of death”.  Anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians simply cannot vote for an utterly unforgivable Labor.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, “On 100th day of Gaza genocide: 100,000 Palestinians killed, missing or wounded”, 13 January 2024: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6093/On-100th-day-of-Gaza-genocide:-100,000-Palestinians-killed,-missing-or-wounded  ;  Chris Hedges, “The silence of the damned”, Pearls & Irritations, 2 February 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/the-silence-of-the-damned/ .

19 January 2024

Euro-Med reported after 100 days of Israel’s latest  Gaza Massacre: “About 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, reported missing, or wounded since 7 October 2023… A total of 31,497 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed as of today, 13 January 2024… Of those killed in the Israeli air and artillery attacks on the Strip, 28,951 (92%) were civilians, including 12,345 children, 6,471 women, 295 health personnel, 41 civil defense personnel, and 113 journalists. Meanwhile, 61,079 individuals have been injured, hundreds of them critically”.

In addition 1,500 Occupied Palestinian fighters were killed in Israel on 7 October and 355 Occupied Palestinians were killed in the West Bank since then, for a total of 33,352 deaths in reprisals for 1,200 Israelis killed on 7 October, 97.5% adults and past or present Israeli military, with most  likely killed by IDF shelling and missiles. Not reported by the taxpayer-funded but Zionist-subverted ABC that threatens and forces out truth-telling journalists like Antoinette Lattouf and Nour Haydar, the Occupied/Occupier reprisals  Death Ratio is at least 33,352/1,200 = 28, nearly 3 times greater than the 10 ordered by Hitler and effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Caves Massacre. Nazi is as Nazi does. Silence is complicity.

16 January 2024

The Australian Labor Government is still seeking  a  “2-state solution” to the “conflict” in Palestine that is now impossible because 90% of the land of Palestine has been ethnically cleansed by the Jewish Israelis of Israel’s 52% majority Indigenous Palestinian subjects. However a gigantic step to a humane solution can be effected immediately by simply granting all Indigenous Palestinians equal human rights and indeed all the human rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

This proposition is unexceptional for all decent Humanity, and in Australia those rejecting this on a racial basis for a large body of Australian subjects would be regarded as racist pariahs utterly unfit for decent company, public life and public office.  However equal rights and all UDHR-specified human rights for all of Israel’s Indigenous Palestinian subjects have been implacably opposed by US- and Western-backed Apartheid Israel for 75 years simply because it wants the land but not the Indigenous inhabitants.

5 January 2024

While  71% of UK Muslims supported Labour in 2019, by late October 2023 this had shrunk to 5%, and the Muslim Conservative vote had likewise shrunk from 9% to 1% (Pearls & Irritations, 5/1/2024), with this 10-fold drop in the Muslim vote occasioned by the despicable support by both Labour and the Tories for Israel and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide in Gaza. No doubt many other decent Brits  will react similarly.

One week after the Israeli bombing started all Federal Australian MPs (except for the Greens and Senator Lidia Thorpe) rejected a ceasefire, this occasioning the acronym KILLs (for Koalition, Independent  and Labor Liars). Not just Australian Muslims and Arabs but all anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians are utterly appalled by the massacre that has so far killed over 29,000 Occupied Palestinians including over 11,000 children (Euro-Med 27/12/2023).

Muslims, Arabs, and anti-racist Jews are about 4% of Australian voters, and Jewish Zionists about 0.4%, but the KILLs fervently and unforgivably back the latter and support child-killing Apartheid Israel out of fealty to Zionist-subverted America that is now widening the killing  to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Decent Australians will overwhelmingly reject  the US, Apartheid Israel and the KILLs. Silence is complicity.

3 January 2024

Many analysts (some of them eminent and award-winning) have concluded from mounting evidence that the massive tank and helicopter firepower deployed in the  IDF response on 7 October was responsible for many of the 1,200 Israeli deaths. These deaths have been used as a 9/11-style excuse for  the physical destruction of much of Gaza,  and a horrendous Palestinian Genocide with the prospective expulsion of 2.3 million Palestinians into the Egyptian Sinai desert in addition to the  1948 Nakba (or Catastrophe (0.8 million expelled from Palestine, 60% of the Indigenous Palestinian population ) and the 1967 Naksa or Setback (0.4 million expelled).

Like the genocidal German Nazis in Eastern Europe, the genocidally racist, settler-colonialist  Zionists want all the land of Palestine (plus adjacent territories) but not the Indigenous Semitic inhabitants. Anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (NYU): “The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis” (Google “Jews against  racist Zionism”). DNA analysis  shows that the numerically and politically dominant  Eastern Europe-derived Ashkenazi Jews (including myself) descend from non-Semitic, Turkic Khazar converts to Judaism with zero Middle Eastern (Semitic) contribution. Nazi is as Nazi does.

PS. For details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “IDF Killed Israelis On 7 October Enabling 9/11-style Excuse For Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 31 December 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/12/idf-killed-israelis-on-7-october-enabling-9-11-style-excuse-for-gaza-genocide/  .  

29 December 2023

Re the Australian Museum Ramses II/Palestine controversy,  Palestine (Falastin to Indigenous Palestinians) was named after the Philistine inhabitants of over 3,000 years ago, was called thus by Greek historian Herodotus (circa 450 BCE), and was referred to as Palestina by the Roman Empire  and by subsequent empires including  the 4-century Ottoman Caliphate (1517-1924) and the British Empire (that occupied Palestine in 1917-1947). Today there are about 15 million Palestinians of whom 7.6 million Occupied and Israeli Palestinians represent over 50% of the subjects of US-backed Israel, the largely Ashkenazi Jewish settler-colonial Zionist entity now mis-ruling all of Palestine.

Ramses II was defeated by the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh in Syria (1275 BCE) but returned to Egypt (via Palestine of course) to order his scribes and artists to proclaim a tremendous victory – the first major example of a state re-writing history. The lying continues. Indeed anti-racist Jewish American journalist I.F. Stone famously declared “Governments lie”.  Thus there  is no non-Biblical evidence for the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt nor for the Kingdom of David and Solomon, and DNA analysis says that Ashkenazi Jews (such as myself ) are not Semitic (descending  from non-Semitic, Turkic Khazar converts to Judaism).

22 December 2023

At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of the wonderful Jewish Palestinian Jesus who articulated the core ethos of humanity as kindness and truth. We are reminded of the biblical nativity narrative of how the Rome-backed, Jewish King Herod slew all the male children under two years old. Today, this biblical story is matched by the horrible reality of more than 8000 Palestinian children killed so far in Gaza, according to Hamas.

The taxpayer-funded ABC has trashed kindness and truth by forbidding use of the terms “apartheid” and “genocide” in this context, and by sacking radio host Antoinette Lattouf for protesting against this ghastly present-day massacre of the innocents.

Memo for Christmas gatherings: the world has two kinds of people, those opposing the mass murder of children, and the unforgivable others. Silence is complicity. [published by The Age].  

22 December 2023

At Christmas we celebrate the birth of the wonderful Jewish Palestinian Jesus who articulated the core ethos of humanity as kindness and truth.

We are reminded of the Biblical nativity narrative of how the Rome-backed Jewish King Herod “When he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under” (Matthew 2: 16-18).

Today this Biblical fable is matched by the horrible reality of over 10,000 Occupied Palestinian children killed so far in US-backed apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide in the Gaza concentration camp (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 15 December).

The taxpayer-funded ABC has trashed kindness and truth by forbidding use of the terms ‘apartheid’ and ‘genocide’ in this context, and by sacking humanitarian journalist and radio host Antoinette Lattouf for protesting this ghastly present-day Massacre of the Innocents.

Memo for Christmas gatherings: the world has two kinds of people, those opposing the mass murder of children, and the unforgivable others. Silence is complicity [Published by the Tasmanian Times.].

17 December 2023

The Australian Labor Government repeatedly claims to act foremost for the safety of Australians, even to the extent of wanting to imprison refugees indefinitely  without charge or trial, but actually seriously endangers Australians  in 6 ways in the interests of foreign powers:

(1).  It permits the US giving bulk intelligence on Australians to Israel (as revealed by the Sydney Morning Herald).

(2). It declines to order Israel to not bomb places in Gaza containing  Australian citizens and residents.

(3). It committed to spend an average of $20 billion annually for 20 years on AI-detectable nuclear-powered submarines while, for example, 100,000 Australians die preventably annually from “life-style choice” reasons.

(4). It has made Australian cities and Pine Gap prime nuclear targets through nuclear-armed AUKUS and hosting nuclear-armed US warships and bombers.

(5). It fails to protect Australians from returning dual citizen Israeli-Australian foreign fighter participants in the ongoing Gaza Genocide (Euro-Med: so far 25,000 Occupied Palestinians killed in 70 days including  10,000 children).

(6). It has flagrantly lied in 15 areas in the interests of Australia-subverting  Israel as set out in a huge, detailed and  thoroughly documented Submission to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.*

Silence is complicity.

*Gideon Polya, “Submission To National Anti-Corruption Commission: Australian Labor Government’s Lying For Apartheid Israel“, Countercurrents, 22 July 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/07/submission-to-national-anti-corruption-commission-australian-labor-governments-lying-for-apartheid-israel/ .

9 December 2023

The key solution to the Middle East “conflict”  can happen today with the stroke of a pen granting 15 million Exiled, Occupied and Israeli Palestinians equal rights and all the human rights set out in the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Unfortunately nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, child killing and neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel  will simply not meet this minimal  humanitarian demand, and until it does the civilized world must apply stringent Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against  Apartheid Israel and all its genocidally racist supporters.  

In Australia that means BDS against all the Federal MPs (except for the Greens and Lidia  Thorpe) who unforgivably trashed Australia’s international reputation by opposing an immediate Ceasefire and cessation of the genocidal Gaza Massacre i.e. the Kindness- and Truth-violating,  racist and mendacious Koalition, Independent and Labor Liars (the KILLs).

Children killed per day was 1,000 (for Jewish children in WW2) and is 150 (since 7 October for Occupied Palestinian children in Gaza). The world has 2 kinds of people, those unequivocally opposed to the mass murder of children and the others who include the genocidally racist and Zionist-perverted US Alliance countries and notably the Australian KILLs and those voting for them.

7 December 2023

Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention unequivocally demand that an Occupier must supply its conquered Subjects with life-sustaining food and medical services “to the fullest extent of the means available to it”. However before 7 October  2023 the per capita  GDP  was $53,000 (Occupier Israel) , $3,500 (the Occupied Palestinian Territory), and $1,000 (Gaza) i.e. Occupier Israel was grossly violating  the Fourth Geneva Convention.  

Since 7 October Israel by siege and bombing has largely deprived 2.3 million Occupied Palestinians in Gaza of life-sustaining water, food, shelter, medical requisites and medical services in an even more deadly violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and indeed of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that has so far killed about 22,000 Gazans including 9,000 children, injured 40,000, and rendered most Gazans homeless.   

Except for the Greens, all members  of the Australian Federal  Parliament (Coalition, Independent and Labor) unforgivably opposed an immediate Ceasefire and  cessation of the active and passive killing  of Occupied Palestinians in Gaza, and thus made Australia complicit in this genocidal atrocity. Decent Australians who oppose the mass murder of civilians and children will  speak up and vote accordingly. Silence is complicity.

6 December 2023

I am an anti-racist Jewish Australian/Tasmanian scientist and humanitarian with a sole allegiance to Australia, author of huge books on genocide, and utterly appalled by the ongoing genocidal Gaza massacre by an Apartheid Israel that wants all the Land of Palestine (plus some) but not the Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants.

2.3 million  Palestinians in Gaza are being remorselessly herded by bombing and shelling  into an ever-diminishing tiny southern patch of  the formerly 400 square kilometer  Gaza Concentration Camp. The latest estimates are of  22,000 Palestinians  killed including  9,000 children (counting those buried in rubble), 40,000 injured and 2 million homeless in reprisals for the 7 October Hamas attack for 240 hostages to be exchanged for 5.6 million Palestinian hostages variously held by Apartheid Israel for up  to 56 years. Of the 1,200 Israelis killed most were past and present Israeli military and only 30 were children, with many killed in the massive Israeli tank and helicopter gunship response.

Yet Labor or Coalition Australia is unforgivably second only to the US as a diplomacy, intelligence, and arms supporter of genocidal Apartheid Israel, and faces global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as applied against Apartheid South Africa and all its supporters.

28 November 2023

The Letter against  “racism” and “antisemitism”, signed by over 100 Australian notables and published as an advertisement in major Australian newspapers, has significant flaws from my perspective as an anti-racist Jewish Australian/Tasmanian committed to “never again to anyone” including  Indigenous Palestinians.    

(1). While “Israel” and “Palestine” are not mentioned, context is provided by “Over the last seven weeks, a 482% rise in antisemitic incidents has swept Australia’s shores”. Not mentioned is that reports of Islamophobia have increased 4-fold since 7 October or the massive, false and anti-Arab anti-Semitic Mainstream media demonization of the Palestinians that recently led to a protesting Open Letter by ethical Australian journalists.

(2). No Palestinian, Arab or Muslim signatories are apparent but  Jewish and Anglo-Celtic names predominate.

(3). Repugnant anti-Semitism includes anti-Jewish anti-Semitism  (mostly against ethnically non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jews like me) and anti-Arab anti-Semitism (ignored in the Letter) directed  at ethnically Semitic Palestinians and Arabs and against 2 billion mainly culturally Semitic  Muslims.

(4). War is the penultimate in racism and genocide (such as the ongoing Palestinian Genocide) the ultimate. Yet with the exception of the decent Greens, all Australian Federal MPs (Koalition, Independent   and Labor or KILs) unforgivably opposed a permanent Ceasefire in Gaza.

25 November 2023

As a holocaust-impacted, anti-racist Jewish Australian humanitarian I am inescapably bound by the key messages of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust of “never again to anyone”, “bear witness”  and “zero tolerance for lying and racism”.  I applaud the ethical Australian journalists for their Open Letter protesting outrageous Mainstream media bias in reporting on Palestine and demanding  provision of truthful historical context  in reporting  the  latest horrendous and war criminal Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.

I recently published a very detailed and  documented analysis of 35 outrageous Lies shockingly perpetrated and  perpetuated by Apartheid Israel, Zionists  and pro-Zionist Western Mainstream media and politicians *. The World has 2 kinds of people, those opposing the mass murder of innocents and the others. Decent Australians will reject the Coalition, Labor and Independent “others”  unforgivably opposing immediate permanent Ceasefire and immediate cessation of the killing, the Occupation and the century-long Palestinian Genocide.  

The core ethos of Humanity is (a) Kindness and (b) Truth. However this is grossly violated by Apartheid Israel that per capita based on the  population of the Occupied Palestinian Territory leads the World in (a) the killing of children and (b) the killing of journalists.

*Gideon Polya, “Gaza Massacre: 35 Ways Zionist-perverted US, Australia & West Lie For Child-killing, Neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 23 November 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/11/gaza-massacre-35-ways-zionist-perverted-us-australia-west-lie-for-child-killing-neo-nazi-apartheid-israel/  [Published by the Tasmanian Times].

22 November 2023

It is reported that Dutton and Albanese will join senior Jewish and political leaders at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum in solidarity against asserted verbal anti-Jewish anti-Semitism arising from the violence in Gaza.  Off the anti-Semitism agenda will be (a) the ongoing Israeli mass murder of Semitic Occupied Palestinians from 7 October (an estimated over 20,000 killed so far including  8,000 children), (b) the extremely damaging Zionist defamation of anti-racist Jews such as myself for protesting the appalling crimes of Apartheid Israel, and (c) the trashing of asserted  Australian  “values” and Australia’s international reputation  by bipartisan support for Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Occupation and genocide of the Semitic  Occupied Palestinians.

The World has  2 kinds  of people, those opposing the  killing of children, and the others. In the overwhelmingly pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Australian Federal  Parliament the “others” include the Coalition, Labor and Independent  MPs who all unforgivably voted against the Australian Greens demand for an immediate Ceasefire and cessation of the mass murder of  Palestinian children. Decent anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians are unquenchably angered and will do everything they can to ensure that the unforgivable “others” are removed from public office and public life in future  elections.

18 November 2023

Anti-Semitism is repugnant because its victims have no say in by whom they were conceived and raised. Anti-Semitism comes in 2 forms, anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against 18 million  mostly culturally Semitic Jews, and anti-Arab anti-Semitism  against 300 million ethnically Semitic Arabs (including the 15 million Palestinians) and 2,000 million mostly culturally Semitic Muslims.

In response to  the continuing genocidal massacre of Palestinians in Gaza,  Australian Zionists and all the Coalition, Labor and Independent MPs have opposed a Ceasefire and cessation of the ghastly killing and maiming.  Instead the Zionists and pro-Zionists  have hysterically  weaponized asserted ”anti-Semitism” against Jewish Australians, notably and paradoxically after a Palestinian-owned food outlet in significantly Jewish Caulfield, Melbourne, was fire-bombed.

The latest annual ECAJ Report on Antisemitism in Australia  (covering 1 October 2021- 30 September 2022) records 5 fisticuff assaults with 1 resulting  in hospital attendance.  In the war criminal collective punishment of this latest Gaza Massacre about 14,000 Palestinians have been killed including  3,000 buried alive, 27,000 injured, 6,000 children killed, 1.5 million homeless,  and 2.3 million facing death from disease, starvation and dehydration. Of the 1,200 Israelis killed on 7 October (many reportedly by the responding  IDF) 1,000 were serving military and 30 were children.

17 November 2023

With Lib-Lab and Independent  politicians weaponizing “anti-semitism” in support of Apartheid Israel’s genocidal mass murder of children in the  Gaza Concentration Camp, spare a thought for holocaust-impacted anti-racist Jews such as myself unequivocally  opposed (like the Greens) to this ongoing atrocity (presently over 6,000 Palestinian children killed in response to 30 Israeli children killed on 7 October with many if not all  of the Israeli children killed by the responding IDF).

Any anti-racist Jew  standing up for Palestinian human rights is falsely defamed by Zionists as an “anti-semitic Jew” or a “self-hating Jew”, and Googling these terms  yields about 7,000 and 57,000 results, respectively. Googling “anti-racist Jew” yields about 1,000 results. Fortunately the World also has a conscience, and  Googling “ceasefire now ” yields over  3 million results.

This hugely damaging and utterly false defamation of anti-racist Jews – the very best of Jews – is real anti-Jewish anti-Semitism in Australia that is resolutely ignored by Mainstream journalists and by Lib-Lab and Independent politicians. Of course this is dwarfed by the similarly  ignored, Zionist-promoted, and horrendously deadly US Alliance anti-Arab anti-Semitism that has killed over 30 million Muslims through violence and imposed deprivation since 9/11.  Silence is complicity.

15 November 2023

I was indignant as a patriotic Jewish Australian child in the 1950s when my most revered  family mentor, a Jewish refugee from Nazism, said that it could happen in Australia. It has. After nearly 6 weeks of Israeli bombing in which over 6,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed (including  those buried in rubble) the Coalition Opposition and Australian Labor Government (the Lib-Labs) unforgivably oppose a Ceasefire to stop the killing, and support continuing provision of arms, intelligence and diplomatic support to serial war criminal and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel.

The World contains 2 kinds of people, those opposed to killing innocents and the others. The Lib-Labs ignore the humane, not-in-our name views of anti-racist  Jewish and non-Jewish Australians with a sole allegiance to Australia, and instead parrot the falsehoods of traitorous  and genocidally racist Zionists, making  Australia second only to the US as a supporter of Apartheid Israel.  

Those  supporting Apartheid Israel and hence the evil crime of Apartheid are unfit for public life and public office in a one-person-one-vote democracy like Australia. Those supporting the utterly unforgivable, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Lib-Labs are complicit in genocidal racism, Apartheid and the mass murder of children.  

13 November 2023

Al Jazeera has reported (7/11) that in terms of “children killed per day” this in Gaza (136) exceeds by far that in other conflict zones such as Syria (3), Afghanistan (2), Yemen (1.5), Ukraine (0.7) and Iraq (0.6). These rates of violent child killing do not include avoidable child deaths from war-imposed deprivation.

Using the latest 10/11 data from the UN OCHA, children killed in Gaza  = 4,506 killed +1,500 under rubble = 6,006 killed over 35 days or 172  children killed per day in Gaza by US Alliance- and Australia-backed Apartheid Israel.

In contrast Israeli children killed in the so-called “Hamas massacre” of 7 October  = 32 children killed over 2 days (UN OCHA) = 16 per day (noting that many of these children may have been killed in the deadly Israeli military response within Israel that has been ignored by Mainstream media but uniquely addressed by Pulitzer Prize-winning US journalist  Chris Hedges and award-winning, Israel-based UK journalist Jonathan Cook).

Decent, anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians simply cannot ever again vote for the US lackey Labor and Coalition that support the Occupier Israeli mass murder of Occupied Palestinian children as “self defence”. Never again to anyone!

5 November 2023

In 30 years of scholarly writing about deaths due to war, occupation and inequity  (8 huge books, hundreds of carefully researched and referenced humanitarian essays) my endless mantra has been “Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity”. Killing is wrong period, and violence begets more violence. The ongoing carnage in Palestine illustrates this.

Occupied Palestinian  fighters had the legal  right to attack the war criminal Occupiers on 7 October (but  this century the Occupied Palestinian/ Israeli Occupier reprisals death ratio has been 20.8 with this predicting 29,000 Palestinian deaths – mostly  women and children - in the present Gaza Massacre; 1,500 Palestinian fighters were killed; and 1,400 Israelis were killed, with 84.2% of the Israeli dead being current regular, conscript and reserve soldiers,  2.5% children, and 13.3% 40-plus and mostly former soldiers).

The Australian Labor Government with 58 other US lackey governments disgracefully and unforgivably opposed  the UNGA Ceasefire Resolution that was supported by 120 decent countries, and with the Western Mainstream media falsely backs the supposed “right to defend itself” of the illegal and genocidal Occupier, Apartheid Israel. The world has 2 kinds of people, those opposing the deliberate killing of innocents, and the others.

1 November 2023

As a Jewish Holocaust-impacted, anti-racist, Jewish Australian humanitarian with a sole allegiance to Australia, I strongly object to the Zionist-crafted statement cravenly signed by 6 former Australian PMs that did not condemn the horrendous mass murder of Occupied Palestinians in Gaza by Apartheid Israel nor call for a cessation of the killing, but instead (a) called for release of 230 Israeli hostages but not of 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners, (b) ignored the millions of Occupied Palestinians highly abusively and illegally held hostage by Apartheid Israel for 56 years (without human rights and now totalling 5.6 million), (c) falsely conflated Apartheid Israel and its violent actions with all Jews (egregious anti-Jewish anti-Semitism), (d) hysterically supported Israel in its latest Gaza Massacre (egregious anti-Arab anti-Semitism), and (e) vilified the Indigenous Palestinians while inadvertently acknowledging the horrendous extent of genocidal Israeli violence: “They also sought to provoke Israel into a reaction that would kill countless innocent civilians in Gaza”. The genocidally racist Zionists from Herzl to Netanyahu have explicitly declared that they want the land of Palestine but not its Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants who, despite a century-long  Palestinian Genocide, presently represent 51% of the Subjects of Apartheid Israel. *

* "Zionist quotes re racism and Palestinian Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/zionist-quotes .

31 October 2023

In response to the 1,400 Israeli deaths (an estimated 35 being children) from the 7 October Palestinian breakout from Gaza (1,500 Palestinian fighters killed), Israel has utterly  devastated Gaza, with 10,000 Palestinians killed so far including 3,000 children killed and maybe a further 1,000 buried in rubble. With a near-total effective Israeli ban  on water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel,  the 2.3 million people of Gaza (half of them now homeless) are facing an existential  catastrophe.

It is now reported from Israel that an Israeli Intelligence Ministry report favours complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza by mass population transfer to the Sinai desert. * This is genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention, and would represent the third mass Palestinian  population expulsion event (2.3 million expelled) since the 1948 Nakba (0.8 million expelled) and the 1967 Naksa (0.4 million Arabs expelled).

With Australia fervently supporting Israel and abstaining from the UNGA resolution for an immediate cessation of the killing, Australians need to be properly  informed about what the utterly disgraceful Albanese  Labor Government is supporting. They must  listen to the Greens and anti-racist  Jewish and non-Jewish  humanitarians advocating for peace and Palestinian human rights.

*Yuval Abraham, “Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov’t ministry”, +972 Magazine, 30 October 2023: https://www.972mag.com/intelligence-ministry-gaza-population-transfer/ .

Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Death Ratios, Child Deaths & Palestinian Genocide Demand Immediate Cessation Of Gaza Massacre”, Countercurrents, 30 October 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/10/horrendous-death-ratios-child-deaths-palestinian-genocide-demand-immediate-cessation-of-gaza-massacre/ .

28 October 2023

The progressive Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published images and other details of 902 so far of the 1,400 Israeli residents killed in the incursion into Israel of Palestinian fighters in the recent shocking violence. Of these, 14 were Thai workers and 10 Nepali students, leaving a total of 878 killed Israelis in this initial data release.*

Careful analysis of the photographs and the age data provided  enables one to estimate  that of the 1,400 dead, 97.5% (1,365) were adults, 84.2% (1,179) were 18-39 (i.e. were Israeli military or reservists), and 15.8% (221) were under 18 or 40 and older, this including  2.5% (22) who were aged under 18. 1,500 Palestinian fighters were killed in Israel during the break-out from the Gaza Concentration Camp.

In stark contrast, of the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza,  99.36 % (2,283,000) were non-combatants,  0.74% (17,000) were  combatants, and 7,000 have been killed by bombing in Gaza. The Occupied/Occupier combatant reprisals Death Ratio is (7,000 + 1,500) /1,179 = 7.2, similar to the reprisals Death Ratio of 10  ordered by Nazi leader Adolph Hitler in 1944. Deaths are set to escalate appallingly with mass death from deprivation in besieged Gaza. The killing must stop immediately.

*“Israel's Dead: The Names of Those Killed in Hamas Attacks, Massacres and the Israel-Hamas War”, Haaretz, 19 October 2023: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-19/ty-article-magazine/israels-dead-the-names-of-those-killed-in-hamas-massacres-and-the-israel-hamas-war/0000018b-325c-d450-a3af-7b5cf0210000 .

26 October 2023

At the National Press Club (25/10) the Israeli Ambassador to Australia obscenely declared: “You do not measure ... the adherence of a nation to the international law by the toll of casualties on the other side”. Holocaust-impacted people such as myself and other decent folk would think otherwise.

As of 25 October 2023 the Occupied Palestinian /Occupier Israeli reprisals Death Ratio = (6,000 killed in Gaza  + 1,500 fighters killed in Israel )/1,400 Israelis killed  = 5.4 as compared to the Occupied/Occupier reprisals Death Ratio of 10 ordered by Hitler and carried out in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre. The average Gaza conflict Death Ratio in last 15 years  has been 20.8, this predicting 20.8 x 1,400 = 29,000 Palestinian deaths in the present Gaza Massacre. World: stop the killing.  

13 October 2023

Re the latest ME atrocities and the looming genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the Federal Labor  Government  is fervently pro-Israel and is taking appallingly bad advice from fanatical Zionists with a fervent attachment to Apartheid Israel - it should instead be taking advice from  eminent anti-racist Jewish Australians with a sole allegiance to Australia and concerned for peace, Palestinian and Israeli lives, and Palestinian human rights. Ditto the fervently pro-Israel Biden Administration that is 30% Jewish Zionist  and 70% Christian Zionist.

Thus the anti-racist  Jewish American organization Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP): “The Israeli government has declared a genocidal war on the people of Gaza. As an organization that works for a future where Palestinians and Israelis and all people live in equality and freedom, we call on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide of Palestinians… There is no justification in international law for the indiscriminate killing of civilians or the holding of civilian hostages. And now, horrifyingly, the Israeli and American governments are weaponizing these deaths to fuel a genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza”. *

*Jewish Voices for Peace, “Jewish Voice for Peace calls on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide”, 11 October 2023: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/statement23-10-11/ ).

11 October 2023

Peace is the only way, nobody should be killed, all human life is sacred, and terrorism is as terrorism does whether it is the hugely disproportionate violence of Israeli state terrorism over 75 years or the awful non-state terrorism this week by despairing inmates of the blockaded Gaza Concentration Camp.

On  Day 5 of the latest violent episode the Occupied/Occupier death ratio within Israel is 1,500 Palestinian fighters killed / 1,000 Israeli deaths = 1.5, and the Occupied/Occupier death ratio overall is presently (700 + 1,500) / 1,000 = 2.2. However worse is threatened: the 2008-31 August 2023 Occupied / Occupier death ratio was 6,407/307 = 20.9, over 2 times greater than the ratio of 10 ordered by Hitler for reprisals against indigenous Partisans in 1944.

Occupied Palestinians have been brutally confined to Gaza without human rights and in dire poverty for 56 years. Of 2.2 million Gazans 70% are women and children. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is destroying Gaza, denying besieged Gazans food and water (an immense  war crime), and adumbrating genocide by repeatedly telling Gaza civilians to leave with the presently closed Egyptian border the only conceivable exit.

8 October 2023

The heroic armed Ukrainian response to the war criminal invasion and 10-year partial Occupation of their land by nuclear-armed Russia has been  associated with an appalling human cost, and  so will be the  present Palestinian rebellion against 75 years of war criminal genocide and Occupation by nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel which in recent decades has in practice followed Hitler’s 1944 reprisals order for an Occupied/Occupier death ratio of 10. Many more scores of thousands will die.

The Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rjghts (UDHR) admits the reality of eventual  “recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression”, but as exampled by Ukraine, Palestine and many other countries subject to war criminal foreign Occupation the human cost is horrendous.

Mark Twain said: “Truth hurts, but silence kills”. My endless Gandhian mantra is “Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity”. Backed by Sanctions against the war criminal Occupiers, the World must demand immediate cease-fire, real negotiations, and rapid justice for both devastated Ukraine and devastated Palestine.

(B). Before 7 October  2023 i.e. before the Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp.