Natasha Hausdorff, a Zionist barrister specialising in international law, will be a keynote speaker at the Jewish National Fund Australia’s 2026 Annual Campaign in September.

Before she visits three cities, the public should be made aware of some of her most egregious statements.

Hausdorff told Jonathan Sacerdoti, a British Zionist broadcaster in “How the West’s own laws are being used to destroy it: Natasha Hausdorff exposes the ICC and UN”, that pro-Palestine activists’ use of photos of starving children is “emotion driven” (Timestamp 30:04).

“That’s why we’ve seen all these fake images of starving children,” she said. “I say fake because the context in which they’re presented is to suggest that Israel has starved them. And in every single instance, it has been proven that these are very ill children that have been unable to take in sufficient nutrition because of severe underlying health conditions, not because of shortages in the Gaza Strip …”

Sacerdoti, at times, interrupts to help her reframe her argument to sound more plausible.

“The other aspects of many of these images are, you know, family members that were very well fed being photographed alongside these kids sometimes being cut out, but I saw a number of mothers, you know, who were there holding these babies who looked not just well nourished, I mean one of them I recall had a double chin and I’ve never encountered a mother who would eat before her starving child.”

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