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Just when you think that the Australian Government cannot sink any lower, the prime minister still manages to surprise!_

 

Cameron Leckie

Gaslighting the electorate, virtue signalling to our ‘partners’

 

We have now been made aware of accusations that the Republic of Iran was involved in two antisemitic “incidents” in Australia.

No one killed. No one hurt. Relatively minor property damage.

Yet these accusations, based on intelligence shared with ASIO from “foreign partners” (presumably Israel), were sufficient for the prime minister to decide, for the first time in Australia’s history, to expel the Iranian ambassador.

Yes, you heard it correctly.

Australia has taken no action worthy of the name against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nor even made the most minimal efforts to meet its legal obligations as described in the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”.

With tens of thousands murdered, and a famine now declared, what does Prime Minister Albanese do? Expel the Iranian Ambassador, of course…

This is a vignette of Australia’s approach to foreign policy.

An approach I describe as gaslighting the electorate, virtue signalling to our foreign “partners”.

This cynical, insidious, divisive and amoral approach is increasingly becoming a core feature of Australian politics.

For many Australians, they are no doubt incredulous as to this decision. It is Israel that is committing a genocide. It is the genocide that hundreds of thousands of Australians have marched against. Yet it is the Iranian ambassador that is expelled?

If that creates a level of cognitive dissonance, a perfectly normal and understandable response, you are not alone. For this decision is prima facie illogical and irrational.

It is deliberately so.

The gaslighting is deliberately designed to create confusion, disbelief, and most importantly division within the community. Chris Martenson has described this phenomenon, we are being treated to, as Rats in a Cage.

It is no coincidence the timing nor the angle. With last weekend’s massive marches against Israel’s genocide across the country, in addition to the recent march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, there is enormous pressure being put on the Albanese Government to take act against Israel. Something it clearly does not want to do.

Iran is an easy target. With no popular support in Australia, there will be little in the way of resistance to this move. Further it can be used to divide those who accept the government line without question (including at this point the legacy media), and those who are sickened by the genocide. For protesting against genocide will become associated with supporting Iran.

A clever move if you are a cynic, with the added benefit of virtue signalling to both the Israeli Government and the Trump Administration, that the Albanese Government has tugged the forelock to their imperial project.

A key part of this virtue signalling relates directly to the “ Crusade against Multipolarity” of which Australia is a willing participant.

For Iran is what has been described as the “belt buckle of BRICS”.

The proxy war against Russia has failed, and will grind on indefinitely given the unwillingness of the US and NATO to acknowledge defeat (at an ever-growing cost to the people of Ukraine). China is clearly too tough a nut to crack at this stage.

Through the prism of the increasingly desperate ideologues committed to this Crusade, whether they are in Tel Aviv, Washington, London, Brussels or Canberra, Iran is the weakest (but not necessarily weak) link.

Located in a geographically crucial position (a key node of the International North-South Transport Corridor), a major source of energy and other resources ( lithium) much of which is exported to China, achieving regime change in Iran would be an enormous strategic victory for the collective West.

The decision by the Albanese Government is potentially also an indicator. An indicator that the next phase of the war against Iran is on the horizon. Having supported Israel’s egregious attacks on Iran in June, it is not hard to foresee Australian support and/or involvement in the next round.

What form this will take is unclear. In 2024, the US used both Australian airspace and Cairns airport to facilitate air strikes on Yemen. Could Australia provide similar support in a war against Iran? Or something more direct? The allegations against Iran will clearly be a key component of justifying Australia’s support and participation.

How do we stop the self-destructive path the government is taking us on? In April 2024, I described how Australia’s leadership is destroying the very fabric of this country. The situation now is much, much worse.

Julian Assange’s famous adage springs to mind: “If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.”

It is up to each and everyone one of us to expose the lies, the deception, the distractions that our leadership class and stenographers in the legacy media are subjecting us to. Our future depends upon it!

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08/gaslighting-the-electorate-virtue-signalling-to-our-partners/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

anti-summit-ic.....

The Zionist movement is unable to handle criticism, naming anyone who criticises their efforts at narrative control antisemitic. Wendy Bacon with an update.

Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) CEO Sacha Roytman has hit back at critics of the upcoming Australian Mayors conference on the Gold Coast with an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post titled “When Fighting Antisemitism Becomes Controversial, It’s Already Antisemitism”. The article appeared shortly after more than 300,000 people attended protests across Australia last Sunday, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza and sanctions on Israel.

Roytman claims that CAM’s success in attracting hundreds of Mayors and councillors with its all-expenses-paid invitation has led to “the summit itself [becoming] the target of attacks, with critics scurrilously delegitimising what is essentially an anti-hate event.”

Thousands of Australians have signed letters to Councils urging them not to attend the Summit due to its far-right agenda, and links to companies and individuals that promote, fund or trade with Israel.

“It has now become abundantly clear that the campaign urging a boycott of the upcoming summit is not simply political activism – it is, in truth, antisemitism,” Roytman wrote. He clearly states that for CAM, “Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”

Jewish criticism of CAM

Amongst CAM’s critics are the Jewish Council of Australia, which this week stated,

In reality, it is a pro-Israel political junket designed to push a one-sided political agenda, silencing legitimate criticism of Israel by conflating it with antisemitism.

It urged anyone who had accepted an invitation without understanding this to pull out now.

Yesterday, the Deputy Leader of the Greens, Senator Mehreen Farqui, called for a boycott of the Summit.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that the Iranian ambassador would be expelled after ASIO, working with foreign partners and international agencies, said it had “credible evidence” that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps was the hidden organiser behind fires at a Melbourne synagogue and Sydney restaurant last December.

CAM seized the opportunity to link the Mayors’ summit agenda to ASIO’s findings.

In an article on its website, CAM again complained about the “smear campaigns … delegitimising its core purpose,” which was to allow municipalities “the support they vitally need” to learn how to “counter Jew Hatred”.

“When arson attacks target Jewish synagogues and businesses, it is not a moment for hesitation — it is a time for action. The upcoming summit underscores an urgent truth: confronting antisemitism is not political—it is a public safety imperative.”

Shortly after publishing this article, CAM’s CEO and ex-IDF commander Roytman issued a media release connecting Australia’s allegations against the IRGC with a broader “pattern of malign activity”, He called for “global intelligence services, and law enforcement agencies to urgently investigate the role of foreign subversive actors, especially the Iranian regime, in orchestrating and financing antisemitic violence and anti-Israel demonstrations across the globe.”

 

Palestinian Action Group

Palestine Action Group convenor, Josh Lees said in response to the allegation about IRGC funding anti-Israel protests, “It’s a ludicrous suggestion without foundation and an insult to hundreds of organisers of small and big protests taking place around the world every day.”

CAM states that the alleged actions of the IRGC are not just attacks on Jews but on the “safety, sovereignty, and democratic integrity of nations worldwide”. “Every responsible leader and agency must immediately investigate, expose, and counter this threat,” says Roytman. 

“CAM stands ready to work with governments, security agencies, and civil society partners to confront this emerging threat head-on”.

Despite widespread scepticism in Australian social media about the Albanese government’s dramatic announcements this week, CAM neatly slotted them into its broader narrative of ‘Western Civilisation against the Forces of Evil’.

This is the broad and ominous right-wing political agenda that CAM and many of its speakers, including those with a record of Islamophobia, will promote at next week’s conference. Whether a protest or arson attack, it’s all antisemitism. At a local level, the take-home tools will include a Municipalities Index to monitor activity using CAM’s so-called ‘gold standard’ IHRA definition of anti-semitism.

Providing some cover for this agenda is the Chair of the Summit organising Committee, respected businessman David Gonski. MWM sent questions to Gonski last week, but has received no response or acknowledgement from him as yet.

https://michaelwest.com.au/criticis-of-antisemitism-summit-antisemitic-says-israeli-antisemitism-chief/

 

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.