Israel’s Australia Antisemitism Report Just Backfired Badly

KernowDamo: A new report proves that Israel now fears criticism more than antisemitism - and once that’s on the record, there's no going back.

Right, so Israel has just published a report on antisemitism in Australia, and in doing so it’s managed to expose something far more damaging than any protest ever could. Because once you strip away the solemn language and read it for structure, not reassurance, what becomes clear is that Israel now treats critics of its actions as a bigger problem than people who actually attack Jews. That’s not an accusation. It’s what the document shows.

This isn’t just about one report, or one country, or one three-month snapshot. It’s part of a pattern that’s been hardening for years, where antisemitism stops being treated as a specific crime and starts being used as a political filter. Who gets named. Who gets tracked. Who gets framed as dangerous. And who quietly fades into the background.

And here’s why it matters. Once a state starts confusing accountability with hatred, it doesn’t just weaken its argument. It weakens the very warning system it claims to defend — and that damage doesn’t go away. 

Right, so Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism has released a report on what it claims is antisemitism in Australia, covering the final months of 2025, and the first thing that has to be said is that this document cannot be treated as a valid source on antisemitism at all. Not because antisemitism does not exist in Australia, because it does and always has, but because this report has chosen to weaponise the category so aggressively that it contaminates its own evidence. Once a document treats political critics of a state as the primary generators of antisemitism, it disqualifies itself from diagnosing antisemitism as a social harm. From that moment on, it becomes evidence of political priority, not of hatred.

That distinction is not academic. This report is already circulating as though it were a neutral assessment of danger. It is being treated as if it records a problem and traces its causes.