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Shannon Cummings

Jun 10, 2026, 12:39 AM

Labor Mourns Jewish Victims. But Does It Fight For Living Jews?

The easiest Jew to support is a dead one. A dead Jew costs nothing. A dead Jew asks for nothing. A dead Jew can be remembered, honoured and mourned without demanding uncomfortable decisions in the present. That is why every year politicians stand...

Shannon Cummings

May 27, 2026, 1:53 PM

Why Won’t Albanese Name the Ideology Driving Antisemitism?

There is a reason Australians no longer trust the political language surrounding extremism. They know when they are being managed. Jewish Australians have faced a surge in intimidation, harassment, threats, chants glorifying terrorism, vandalism, and open displays of hatred that most...

May 24, 2026, 12:54 PM

To the Royal Commission on Antisemitism

First and foremost, I would like to thank you for the important work of this Commission, which gives hope not only to the Jewish community of Australia, but to Jewish communities around the world that have experienced a troubling...

May 2, 2026, 5:31 PM

Australia’s Interim Antisemitism Report: A Reckoning Begins

Commissioner for the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Virginia Bell, right, delivers her report to Australian Governor-General Sam Mostyn at Government House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

For decades, the Australian Jewish community lived under a comfortable, yet slightly fragile, illusion. We were the "Lucky Country’s" greatest success story. A thriving, vibrant diaspora of 120,000 who had built schools, businesses, and lives in a nation that...

May 2, 2026, 10:05 AM

A Royal Commission into Antisemitism: One Australian’s Submission

Australia is in the midst of a major enquiry into antisemitism- a Royal Commission- following the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach. The community has been invited to make submissions. Below, I share mine. It is analytical rather than personal...

Shannon Cummings

Apr 30, 2026, 10:15 PM

Why Albo and Minns won’t step in

Let’s dispense with the polite fiction first: this is not a mystery of leadership. It is a case study in it. What you are witnessing from Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns is not hesitation born of confusion. It is hesitation...

Apr 19, 2026, 6:55 AM

The Altar and the Algorithm: An Experiment in Human-AI Entanglement

Besieged by AI

By Joe Nalven I’ve been exploring how we (humans) “think” with AI. This essay is a further experiment about “thinking,” about “knowledge” and about how users of large language models (LLMs) get entangled in LLM output. This experiment is not...

Miles Damone Mackay

Apr 16, 2026, 10:02 PM

The Gradual Erasure of Jewish Victimhood

On January 27th 2026, the world commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day; a day dedicated to the loss of six million Jewish lives at the hands of the Nazis. However, year-by-year, we see how politicians, news broadcasters, and schools have started...

Natasha H. Pein

Apr 12, 2026, 9:22 PM

Judenrein. Rebranded as Antizionism.

Judenrein. Rebranded as antizionism

Yom HaShoah: The Lesson the World Has Still Not Learned The pattern has not changed. Only the language has. Every year on Yom HaShoah, we light candles for the six million Jews died in the Holocaust. We recite names. We say...

Shannon Cummings

Apr 9, 2026, 8:17 AM

Words Don’t Radicalise People. Narratives Do.

There’s a habit in modern politics of mistaking the symptom for the cause. The NSW Government’s response to rising antisemitism is a textbook example. After months of evidence and testimony, a parliamentary committee landed on a narrow conclusion: consider banning the...

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