World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org): Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah – Australian Academic & Activist Discusses Government’s Response to Pro-Palestine Advocacy
February 3, 2025Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party government has thrown its full weight behind the mounting Zionist-led media demonisation of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, a pro-Palestinian academic at Sydney’s Macquarie University. She has been falsely accused of antisemitism, along with many others, for opposing the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Yesterday, in a reactionary and overt political intervention, Education Minister Jason Clare wrote to the Australian Research Council (ARC) asking it to investigate “as a matter of urgency” Abdel-Fattah’s current ARC $870,000 research grant, based on phony allegations that she breached the grant rules.
Clare’s act marks a further ramping up of the role of the Labor government, like its counterparts in Washington and other imperialist capitals internationally, in backing the ongoing Israeli mass murder in the Middle East and seeking to witch hunt, outlaw and persecute participants in the mass global opposition to it.
This is being accompanied by an incendiary media-government blitz to declare that Jews are threatened by a wave of antisemitism in Australia. This is all based on extremely murky incidents of graffiti and arson, without a skerrick of evidence linking the incidents to any of the large demonstrations in Australia against the Israeli genocide.
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