My Life

• Like Gawenda, I am the son of Jewish refugees, although I grew up in a totally secular home.
• I think of myself as Jewish, although on the census forms I tick “no religion”.
• I am also friends with several of the people he criticises, particularly Louise Adler and Peter Beinart.
• Gawenda came out of a specifically left Jewish tradition, that of the Bund, which was secular, socialist and, in its origins, opposed to Zionism.

• Most of his examples revolve around left hostility to Israel, which as we have seen recently can too easily turn into crude antisemitism.
• He is particularly critical of former foreign minister Bob Carr, whom he claims exaggerates the power of the Israeli lobby.
• While Carr may be prone to exaggeration, my own experience suggests the most active supporters of Israel in Australia are capable of bullying and intimidation.
• Gawenda claims many on the left lack “a genuine and consequential commitment to Israel’s survival as a Jewish majority state”.

An age of tribalism

• Gawenda taps into the underlying anxiety all Jews feel whenever debate about Israel moves into antisemitism, as happened in very ugly ways in the past few weeks.
• Of course, Israel also has some strong defenders among people who are antisemitic, such as sections of the American Christian right.

• There is hard evidence antisemitism is growing in Australia and I wish Gawenda had spent more time analysing it, rather than relying on overseas examples.
• Currently, our universities are arguing about which definition of antisemitism to adopt, rather than thinking through how best to tackle the root causes of antisemitism and racism.
• My Life as a Jew is so focused on opposition to Israel it passes over the more pervasive low-level antisemitism we encounter all too often.
• As Freud observed: “Only in logic are contradictions unable to coexist; in feelings they quite happily continue alongside each other”.

Dennis Altman received a small ARC grant forty years ago to research the deabtes about Israel within the Australian student movement

And I have acknowledged my connections to several people criticised by Gawenda, which should also have included Bob Carr

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