{"id":446389,"date":"2026-01-30T02:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446389\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:17:09","slug":"ley-holds-on-to-leadership-as-rivals-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-who-should-challenge-trump-asks-putin-to-temporarily-halt-kyiv-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446389\/","title":{"rendered":"Ley holds on to leadership as rivals fail to reach agreement on who should challenge; Trump asks Putin to temporarily halt Kyiv bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week director Louise Adler has warned progressive Australian Jews against allowing the royal commission into the Bondi massacre to be dominated by \u201cpro-Israel propagandists\u201d, urging them to fight against \u201cMcCarthyites\u201d trying to shut down free speech.<\/p>\n

In a fundraising email for the left-wing Jewish Council of Australia sent this morning, Adler wrote that \u201cas the royal commission comes to life, the pro-Israel lobby has renewed their campaign to silence any criticism of Israel, to outlaw protest and constrain free speech\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis well-oiled machine has already cost us the most significant writers\u2019 festival in the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNow, these McCarthyites are threatening to criminalise university students and defund public institutions that dare to fulfil the essential promise of the arts: to inquire, to complicate, to challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adler resigned and this year\u2019s Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week was cancelled after an uproar over the board\u2019s decision to cancel an invitation to Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.<\/p>\n

Jewish groups have raised concerns about social media posts by Abdel-Fattah appearing to celebrate the October 7 attacks in Israel and saying that Zionists do not deserve cultural safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cA long line of propagandists has deliberately argued that the mere Palestinian-ness of an author is a sufficient threat to the Australian Jewish community that they should not be permitted to participate in public life,\u201d Adler wrote in her email.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have, with great effect, convinced decision-makers that what is good for Benjamin Netanyahu and his murderous regime in Israel is good for all Jews in Australia also. They have already successfully inflected the Albanese government\u2019s so called hate speech legislation. What next?\u201d<\/p>\n

Adler wrote that \u201cwe must not allow the pro-Israel lobby to speak for Jews as a whole, we must not accept the racism being fomenting [sic] in the aftermath of the tragedy at Bondi. As witnesses are called to give evidence to the commission, it is essential to present an accurate picture of the Jewish community in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Adelaide Writers\u2019 Week director Louise Adler has warned progressive Australian Jews against allowing the royal commission into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-446389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}