{"id":4197,"date":"2025-07-12T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:10:59","slug":"landmark-australian-decision-criticism-of-israel-is-not-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"Landmark Australian Decision: Criticism of Israel is NOT Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Landmark Australian Decision: Criticism of Israel is NOT Anti-Semitism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/not-anti-semitism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/not-anti-semitism-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/not-anti-semitism-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/not-anti-semitism-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/not-anti-semitism-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/not-anti-semitism.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a landmark ruling, the Federal Court of Australia has affirmed that opposing Zionism and criticising the actions of the Israeli state is not the same as antisemitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ruling is a win for pro-Palestinian voices in Australia who have long been silenced or smeared as antisemitic for simply calling out Israel\u2019s human rights abuses. The court\u2019s clarification means that Australians can continue to speak up against apartheid, occupation, and genocide without being wrongly branded as racist. It reinforces the right to stand in solidarity with Palestinians; a right rooted in justice, not hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Stewart explained: \u201cPolitical criticism of Israel, however inflammatory or adversarial, is not by its nature criticism of Jews in general or based on Jewish racial or ethnic identity\u2026 The conclusion that it is not antisemitic to criticise Israel is the corollary of the conclusion that to blame Jews for the actions of Israel is antisemitic; the one flows from the other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark Australian Decision: Criticism of Israel is NOT Anti-Semitism In a landmark ruling, the Federal Court of Australia has affirmed that opposing Zionism and criticising the actions of the Israeli state is not the same as antisemitism. This ruling is a win for pro-Palestinian voices in Australia who have long been silenced or smeared as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2966,2967,2965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}