What do Mein Kampf and globalise the intifada have in common?  Spot the difference.

Once upon a time, back in the days of dial up internet and landlines, there used to be an assumption that prerequisites for a job or appearance at something like a writers’ festival or an International Women’s Day event included appropriate skills. You know what I mean, that if you were invited to a writers’ festival, you had probably written a book or two and had something to say, something to add to the discourse. If you were invited to highlight a women’s day event, then probably you had contributed to the welfare of women. All women.

I suppose I’m old-fashioned, or just old, but I lament those days. Days of not wine and roses, but days when there was some form of integrity that was integral to those events and to the invitees.

Now it seems that in order to be a guest at these, you have to be a terrorist supporting anti israel antizionist believeallwomenunlessthey’rejewish globalise the intifada champion.

It’s not enough to be woke and progressive, you have to actively call for intifada. In case anyone has forgotten, for, after all, people have short memories, there was an intifada in Bondi just 2 months ago. For those who are either naïve or ignorant or just plain stupid, intifada isn’t some soft “resistance”. Just ask Arnold Roth, whose daughter was blown to bits in the Sbarro pizza suicide bombing in Jerusalem during the second Intifada. To assert that intifada just means resistance is like saying Mein Kampf just means my struggle. Anyone with a quarter of a brain cell knows what that means.

But here we are, Australia in 2026, 2 months after our local intifada, and the plaudits for those calling for it to be continued rise and rise. Grace Tame is headline speaker at a UN womens event, together with Jess Hill who evidently doesn’t believe that Jews or Jewish women can be gaslit, as she continuously dismisses our lived experiences; Grace who is me too but not for you ( if you are Jewish ) and third member of this triumvirate is Vanessa Turnbull Roberts who has hitched her allegiance to the untamed antizionist narrative.

So as a Jewish woman, would I be heading to such an event?  Unsafe for me, but seemingly very safe for UN women.

Then we have the charmingly abhorrent Randa Abdul Fattah who not despite but probably because of her demonic chants against Zionists and Israel has been invited to every writers festival in the country, selling out sessions it seems.

The phrase Juden raus springs to mind.

So kudos to all these festivals who are not shy in demonstrating their allegiances. Jews out and zio bashers and haters in.

No longer an impediment to status and fame but a certain prerequisite for it. The ultimate selection criterion: be a bigot and you will succeed.

Just like Mein Kampf.

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