The looming Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) summit is backed by an assortment of human rights advocates, astroturfers, property developers and Zionist agitators.

Two of the key participants at the CAM antisemitism summit on the Gold Coast, September 3–5, are Jillian Segal, the controversial Antisemitism Envoy, and businessman David Gonski, who co-chairs the committee running the event.

The conference will be chaired by Tom Tate, Liberal National Party Gold Coast mayor, and the CAM invitations highlight Australian Human Rights Commissioner (AHRC) Lorraine Finlay’s participation as a speaker.

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We asked Finlay how much she knew about CAM, the organisation running the conference, before she accepted the invitation to speak. The AHRC media unit replied: “Unfortunately, the Commissioner is unavailable.”

Most speakers are openly conservative, including Woollahra mayor Sarah Swan and Waverley Council’s Will Nemesh, who are promoting the summit. Nemesh recently welcomed Robert Gregory to Waverley Council’s Multicultural Advisory Committee.

Gregory is the CEO of the hard-right Australian Jewish Association, which has partnered with Advance and is currently being investigated by the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW for alleged racial and religious vilification of Palestinians and Muslims.

Labor’s pro-Israel hawks are well-represented by retired Senator Nova Peris, who is patron of Labor Friends of Israel, and retired Labor politician and businessman Michael Easson, whose company, EG Funds, is also a sponsor.

Peris is a vehement supporter of Israel and played a prominent role in the pro-Israel Better Australia campaign. The ex-Olympian has shared content on social media

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