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Submission to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion
Executive Summary
This submission is presented by Movement Against Antizionism Australia (MAAZ AU), an independent grassroots collective providing training, support, and education to individuals and institutions navigating antizionism in...
Crossing the line
Standing midway along a rain-slicked trail on Mount Gibraltar, ninety minutes southwest of Sydney, I pulled the hem of my raincoat over my phone to shield it from the downpour. Ducking my head into the dry, dark pocket it made, like a torto...
Nakba and the rebranding of humiliation
Syrian historian Constantine Zurayk used the word Nakba (catastrophe) to describe the failed 1948 Seven-Arab-nation army invasion of Israel. His 1948 book, Maʿnā al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Catastrophe), framed the event as a humiliating,...
Sugar and sabre-rattling
There are fewer and fewer spaces that foster the cross-pollination of truly diverse political and philosophical backgrounds.
As I traverse the confectionery aisle at Coles, I’m struck by the ways in which high-calorie, fleeting pleasures a...
Who’s Afraid of Hezbollah/Houthis/ Hamas/Islamic Jihad?
The piece below is not satire. It was written by Selene Zhou and published by The University of Sydney’s Honi Soit April 22, 2026.*
Antizionism continues to perform the inversion performed by Nazis. This tactic is today referred to as DARV...
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The Movement Against Antizionism is a non-partisan, emergency-response initiative confronting a rapidly escalating antizionist hate movement that is actively endangering Jewish communities today. maazaction.org
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