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"ADC ONLINE" - Vol.1, No.3, November 2000

An online journal for discussion, news and
analysis of far-right activity in Australia,
New Zealand and the world.
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Contents
*  Palestinians & League of Rights find common ground
*  Dissension in Graeme Campbell's Australia First
*  The LaRouche cult in Western Australia


***  PALESTINIANS & LEAGUE OF RIGHTS FIND COMMON GROUND

In the wake of the conflict in the Middle East, Australian Palestinian 
leaders have spoken at a forum of Australia's oldest racist organisation, 
the Australian League of Rights, and a League activist has addressed a 
Palestinian rally.

On 31 October, Dr Mahmoud Ajjawi, the secretary of the Australian 
Palestinian Cultural League, was the guest speaker at the Australian League 
of Rights' Sydney Conservative Speakers Club at the Estonian Club in Surry 
Hills. Accompanying Mr Ajjawi was Mr Abdul Abbas, the head of the Council 
of Australian Palestinian Organisations. In his speech, Dr Ajjawi contended 
that the Jews own 25% of the banks in the USA and thereby seek to exert 
control over the US Government and other governments worldwide. He also 
suggested that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (the notorious Czarist 
forgery depicting a plot by Jewry to take over the world), could be based 
on truth.

Available at the forum were copies of a transcript of an address given by 
Adelaide-based League of Rights supporter and Holocaust-denier Jack King at 
a Palestinian protest outside the US Embassy in Martin Place, Sydney, on 15 
October. Also reproduced on the website of the Holocaust-denying Adelaide 
Institute, the speech decries the "hatred and brutality of those Talmudic, 
Zionist Jews" and claims that "the United States is controlled by Zionist 
Jews and their stooges, who run America and the White House". Jews are also 
allegedly "imbued with a very deep hatred of Christianity" and a "key 
objective" of Judaism is "to destroy Christianity as well as to gain world 
control". The "Zionist Jews" are also "invading and taking over Australia" 
and "are behind the divisive, non-assimilating, extreme multicultural 
policies and the present friction betreen Aborigines and other 
Australians". The media is supposedly "dominated by Zionist Jews... It is 
responsible for promoting the Holocaust lie... and the undermining of our 
morality, sovereignty, culture and independence". King calls on the 
Palestinians and all Australians to "get the right people in Parliament 
before it is too late".

For several years there has been contact between militant Arab and Islamic 
leaders in North America and Europe and organised racist groups. The recent 
cooperation between the Australian League of Rights and Palestinian leaders 
is one of the clearest signs of this development in Australia. The League 
of Rights appears willing to compromise its long-held anti-Muslim and 
anti-Arab ideology, in order to work with the Palestinian leadership in 
advancing antisemitism.


***  DISSENSION IN GRAEME CAMPBELL'S AUSTRALIA FIRST

The far-right Australia First Party appears to be suffering from the same 
type of infighting that has undermined Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party. 
Australia First was established by former Federal MP Graeme Campbell in 
1996 after he lost Australian Labor Party endorsement because of his links 
to racist groups. Campbell has declared that he cannot be blamed for the 
current infighting amongst the Australia First leadership which has divided 
the Party and fractured its organisational structure, particularly in Victoria.

In recent months, Patricia Brook, the Victorian state secretary, has 
disseminated an "unauthorised" newsletter which specifies what she 
perceives to be the political, organisational and financial problems within 
the Party. An open letter has also been issued by Queensland state 
president and national councillor Terry Gordon, which suggests a radical 
overhaul of the Party's political structure. He has called for Australia 
First to become a support organisation for independents, as then "our 
opponents (who) wish to discredit our candidates would have to attack each 
one individually. Whereas if the candidates stood under the Party banner, 
our opponents need only attack the party leader or the party to destroy our 
chances of success". Gordon believes that this is "another lesson we should 
have learned from the One Nation experience".


***  THE LaROUCHE CULT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

A well-established racist group has targeted the Western Australian trade 
union movement as part of its political aspirations in the lead up to the 
WA State election. The Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), the Australian arm 
of the US-based fascist Lyndon LaRouche cult, has joined forces with the 
Municipal Employees Union of WA, a maverick union of blue-collar workers, 
to form the "Curtin Labor Alliance" political party. The Alliance has 
nominated candidates to stand at the upcoming State election on a seemingly 
legitimate Party platform of labour and economic issues.

At the launch of the Alliance in Perth earlier this year, the guest 
speakers were Jeffrey and Michele Steinberg from the US, who are senior 
aides to movement leader Lyndon LaRouche. Jeffrey is also the director of 
counterintelligence for LaRouche's American operation. The LaRouche cult 
believes that the world is on the verge of a great financial crisis, 
engineered by the "Oligarchy", an alleged cabal of Jewish bankers and 
usurers, who supposedly use London as their base to subdue the world. The 
CEC therefore hates all things British - London, Great Britain and the 
monarchy are euphemisms for the Oligarchy and the Queen is supposedly the 
head of an international drug cartel. Apart from vilifying Jews, the CEC is 
an antagonist of multiculturalism, depicts Aboriginal land rights as a 
"fraud concocted by Prince Philip to splinter Australia", and describes 
Aboriginal culture as "brutal" and comparable to the "ritual torture and 
cannibalism of the Aztecs". While the group's ideology appears bizarre, it 
is nonetheless clearly racist.

The CEC's overtures towards Western Australian trade unions are based on 
the notion that the industrial capitalists (i.e. labour leaders) need to 
become the junior partners in the LaRouchian "Grand Design for Humanity", 
the cult's vision for saving civilisation from the Oligarchy. The CEC 
promotes itself as a legitimate grassroots organisation and it is likely 
that most members of the Municipal Employees Union, with whom the CEC has 
formed the Alliance, have little idea of the CEC's racist conspiratorial 
underpinnings.

Mainstream trade unions should be wary of any overtures by the CEC, whose 
deceptive labour-orientated agenda is a cover for an avowedly racist ideology.


Copyright (c) 2000 B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc.

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"ADC ONLINE" - Vol.1, No.3, November 2000

An online journal for discussion, news and
analysis of far-right activity in Australia,
New Zealand and the world.
-------------------------------------------

Contents
*  Palestinians & League of Rights find common ground
*  Dissension in Graeme Campbell=92s Australia First
*  The LaRouche cult in Western Australia


***  PALESTINIANS & LEAGUE OF RIGHTS FIND COMMON GROUND

In the wake of the conflict in the Middle East, Australian Palestinian
leaders have spoken at a forum of Australia's oldest racist organisation,
the Australian League of Rights, and a League activist has addressed a
Palestinian rally.

On 31 October, Dr Mahmoud Ajjawi, the secretary of the Australian
Palestinian Cultural League, was the guest speaker at the Australian
League of Rights' Sydney Conservative Speakers Club at the Estonian Club
in Surry Hills. Accompanying Mr Ajjawi was Mr Abdul Abbas, the head of
the Council of Australian Palestinian Organisations. In his speech, Dr
Ajjawi contended that the Jews own 25% of the banks in the USA and
thereby seek to exert control over the US Government and other
governments worldwide. He also suggested that The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion (the notorious Czarist forgery depicting a plot by
Jewry to take over the world), could be based on truth.

Available at the forum were copies of a transcript of an address given by
Adelaide-based League of Rights supporter and Holocaust-denier Jack King
at a Palestinian protest outside the US Embassy in Martin Place, Sydney,
on 15 October. Also reproduced on the website of the Holocaust-denying
Adelaide Institute, the speech decries the "hatred and brutality of
those Talmudic, Zionist Jews" and claims that "the United
States is controlled by Zionist Jews and their stooges, who run America
and the White House". Jews are also allegedly "imbued with a
very deep hatred of Christianity" and a "key objective" of
Judaism is "to destroy Christianity as well as to gain world
control". The "Zionist Jews" are also "invading and
taking over Australia" and "are behind the divisive,
non-assimilating, extreme multicultural policies and the present friction
betreen Aborigines and other Australians". The media is supposedly
"dominated by Zionist Jews... It is responsible for promoting the
Holocaust lie... and the undermining of our morality, sovereignty,
culture and independence". King calls on the Palestinians and all
Australians to "get the right people in Parliament before it is too
late".

For several years there has been contact between militant Arab and
Islamic leaders in North America and Europe and organised racist groups.
The recent cooperation between the Australian League of Rights and
Palestinian leaders is one of the clearest signs of this development in
Australia. The League of Rights appears willing to compromise its
long-held anti-Muslim and anti-Arab ideology, in order to work with the
Palestinian leadership in advancing antisemitism.


***  DISSENSION IN GRAEME CAMPBELL'S AUSTRALIA FIRST

The far-right Australia First Party appears to be suffering from the same
type of infighting that has undermined Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party.
Australia First was established by former Federal MP Graeme Campbell in
1996 after he lost Australian Labor Party endorsement because of his
links to racist groups. Campbell has declared that he cannot be blamed
for the current infighting amongst the Australia First leadership which
has divided the Party and fractured its organisational structure,
particularly in Victoria.

In recent months, Patricia Brook, the Victorian state secretary, has
disseminated an =93unauthorised=94 newsletter which specifies what she
perceives to be the political, organisational and financial problems
within the Party. An open letter has also been issued by Queensland state
president and national councillor Terry Gordon, which suggests a radical
overhaul of the Party's political structure. He has called for Australia
First to become a support organisation for independents, as then
"our opponents (who) wish to discredit our candidates would have to
attack each one individually. Whereas if the candidates stood under the
Party banner, our opponents need only attack the party leader or the
party to destroy our chances of success". Gordon believes that this
is "another lesson we should have learned from the One Nation
experience".


***  THE LaROUCHE CULT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

A well-established racist group has targeted the Western Australian trade
union movement as part of its political aspirations in the lead up to the
WA State election. The Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), the Australian
arm of the US-based fascist Lyndon LaRouche cult, has joined forces with
the Municipal Employees Union of WA, a maverick union of blue-collar
workers, to form the "Curtin Labor Alliance" political party.
The Alliance has nominated candidates to stand at the upcoming State
election on a seemingly legitimate Party platform of labour and economic
issues.

At the launch of the Alliance in Perth earlier this year, the guest
speakers were Jeffrey and Michele Steinberg from the US, who are senior
aides to movement leader Lyndon LaRouche. Jeffrey is also the director of
counterintelligence for LaRouche's American operation. The LaRouche cult
believes that the world is on the verge of a great financial crisis,
engineered by the "Oligarchy", an alleged cabal of Jewish
bankers and usurers, who supposedly use London as their base to subdue
the world. The CEC therefore hates all things British - London, Great
Britain and the monarchy are euphemisms for the Oligarchy and the Queen
is supposedly the head of an international drug cartel. Apart from
vilifying Jews, the CEC is an antagonist of multiculturalism, depicts
Aboriginal land rights as a "fraud concocted by Prince Philip to
splinter Australia", and describes Aboriginal culture as
"brutal" and comparable to the "ritual torture and
cannibalism of the Aztecs". While the group's ideology appears
bizarre, it is nonetheless clearly racist.

The CEC's overtures towards Western Australian trade unions are based on
the notion that the industrial capitalists (i.e. labour leaders) need to
become the junior partners in the LaRouchian "Grand Design for
Humanity", the cult's vision for saving civilisation from the
Oligarchy. The CEC promotes itself as a legitimate grassroots
organisation and it is likely that most members of the Municipal
Employees Union, with whom the CEC has formed the Alliance, have little
idea of the CEC's racist conspiratorial underpinnings.

Mainstream trade unions should be wary of any overtures by the CEC, whose
deceptive labour-orientated agenda is a cover for an avowedly racist
ideology.


Copyright (c) 2000 B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc.

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