While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement.

So today memory culture means that Germany supposedly makes up for the Holocaust by its commitment to Israel. This then becomes the basic plank for Germany’s repression of the pro Palestine movement and a convenient justification for its rightward moving policy — increasingly anti-immigrant, for stronger borders and pro-rearmament.