The royal commission’s witnesses are unreliable and prejudiced, and the commissioner seems to accept that supporting a religious/ethno-supremacist apartheid state is essential to Jewish identity.
This article by Yasmine Johnson, a Jewish student, socialist and one of the national coordinators of Students for Palestine, is based on her testimony at the royal commission.
Labor politicians and the trade union leaders allied to them have undermined working-class cohesion and consciousness. In doing so, they have severely weakened the very forces that could have blunted Hanson’s impact.
