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Australia to Consider "anti-semitism" definition to block visas of immigrants and tourists, and to cancel research grants to academics who criticize Israel (www.theguardian.com)

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Jillian Segal’s push for the federal government to adopt a contested definition of antisemitism will face pushback from some concerned Labor MPs and party members, as Anthony Albanese mulls a response to his envoy’s 49 recommendations to stamp out anti-Jewish hate.

Amnesty International Australia has strongly rebuked the recommendations of Segal, the government’s antisemitism envoy, claiming they could have a “chilling effect stifling rights to protest and freedom of speech”.

In a statement, the charity criticised the recommendations as “vague and repressive” and said they risked “deepening community divisions”.

“The plan risks weaponising criticism of Israel and its commission of war crimes and genocide,” it said

Segal has downplayed some of her more wide-ranging recommendations, saying stripping universities of funding would be a “last resort”, and declining to provide specific examples of media coverage that she would see her office as having a role to “monitor”.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago

These people make it so easy for the far right to spin up antisemitic (actually antisemitic, not this bullshit) conspiracy theories.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Like how the fuck do you even argue with the “Jews control the government” people when this happens? Obviously it’s not true but this is exactly what it would look like if it was, so what are we even supposed to say?

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