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'Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism appointed Greg Craven to an audit role scoring universities on their implementation of a new definition of antisemitism.'

Here's #PellDefender Craven mashing his keyboard & getting all Schmittian in Unkle Rupert's zine:
'If you accept that we now are in a posture of defence – “defence of the realm” in old-speak – certain things follow. The most obvious is that the legislative weapons available are not just those of criminal law but measures typically used in times of war. We are not talking about conscription, martial law or internment here, although a couple of decades’ house arrest for Louise Adler is appealing. But it is entirely right that we are looking at carefully modulated restrictions on expression of hateful ideas and the suppression of hateful organisations. Remember that when we were in mortal combat during both world wars, there was heavy censorship and prohibition of a range of organisations. We are nowhere near that now, but reality calls. In the face of an armed and cynically murderous opponent, these types of measures – appropriately diluted – can be proportionately applied.'
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 AM