![]() Yet there is no material on the ECAJ website covering this statistic, so there is no way to know what incidents are and aren’t included. ECAJ has not responded to an email query regarding this. The Executive Council on Australian Jewry (ECAJ) claims there has been a 482% rise in anti-Semitic events comparing October 2023 with October 2022, based on its real-time tracking of incidents. Yet that is the strong feeling one is getting from the current campaign around anti-Semitism. Any given number of anti-Semitic acts and expressions is not worse than any given number of anti-Black or anti-Muslim or any other acts and expressions. But that special historical and cultural character of anti-Semitism does not give anti-Semitic acts or expressions a special moral character. It is as fluid and mobile as it accuses Jews of being in the exercise of power. Because Jews are held to be a community that is everywhere, one stereotyped as travelling along the abstract channels of money, knowledge and power, so does anti-Semitism. The right is using the fight against anti-Semitism to dehumanise Palestinians and justify slaughter Read More
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