An Australian court has rejected the Israel’s ‘IHRA definition‘ of antisemitism as “verbose and imprecise” and “detached from reality”. The New South Wales Supreme Court ruling aligns with the findings of legal experts — and even the creator of the ‘definition’.

Judge Desmond Fagan rejected the state government’s attempt to impose a terrorism supervision order on a Sydney man for vandalism. The attempt mirrors the UK government’s move to treat anti-genocide activists as terrorists. However, unlike the suborned UK court system the NSW court has, at least so far, embraced justice rather than political lawfare.

Fagan’s damning description of the (non) definition was only the start. He went on to describe the so-called IHRA definition as incompatible with Australia’s established meaning, concluding that it is an attempt to “repurpose” the term to repress criticism of Israel.

As in the UK, Australia’s Israel lobby — well entrenched in government — is trying to force the ‘IHRA’ onto all areas of government, education and media. Again mirroring the UK, ‘Labor’ PM Anthony Albanese has used the Bondi massacre – whose perpetrators were not linked to Palestine and which was stopped by a Muslim man — to wage war on anti-genocide protest.