Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is very talented, very smart – and very dangerous. She is an academic, sociologist, lawyer and novelist, born in Australia to a Palestinian father and Egyptian mother. She is the darling of the Australian luvvies set, feted on university campuses and a fixture on the Australian writers’ festival circuit. She is highly articulate, very telegenic and sought-after media talent. She was a regular panellist on the Australian version of the BBC’s Question Time.

Academically, she specialises in what it means to be Muslim in Australia, and Islamophobia. She had benefited from several taxpayer-funded major research grants, and her institution, Sydney’s Macquarie University, is arguably the most ideologically progressive in Australia’s extremely ideologically progressive university system. She is very much at home there.

In April 2024, she took a group of children to an anti-Israel protest camp at the University of Sydney, and led them in a chant of ‘intifada’

In April 2024, she took a group of children to an anti-Israel protest camp at the University of Sydney, and led them in a chant of ‘intifada’

But Abdel-Fattah is also an outspoken activist for the Palestinian and Gaza cause, and a sworn enemy of the state of Israel.

In Australia, Abdel-Fattah has used her celebrity and media dexterity to amplify her outspokenness on the October 7 Hamas terrorist atrocities, and Israel’s conduct during the conflict in Gaza. Most notoriously, as news broke of the........

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