Astoundingly in my country the federal Government appointed
Ms Jillian Segal AO as the first Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism on July 9, 2024.. to combat rising incidents of antisemitism, w a focus on strengthening social cohesion & advising on safety.
As a world geopolitics, society, environment and global heating educator and journalist for more than 30 years I honestly felt shocked & fearful for this announcement.- Torahic and barking-mad Christian Old Testament children’s and vulnerable, abused, cowed, suborned or depressed teenagers’ stories had FAR WORSE THAN zero connect with the Durkheimean sociology of adequately senior secondary educated adults ANYWHERE - certainly including all students of science, maths & humane logic, not just the psycho-culturally INVALID supposedly atheistic tendentious “social darwinist” Bernays ad agency and 2-bit now AI GPT, Copilot, GAI, Grok, @NvidiaAI ad nauseam Civil-society & intelligent Grown-ups conversation-destroying C grade political speechwriters of the TWENTIETH century arts, humanities & social science: IT WAS ANTITHETICAL TO ANY AND ALL SOCIOLOGY, even the basically Thatcherian aristocracy & landlords (not to mention ageing Australian business-women or our famous finger-wagging ‘Dame Edna Everage’ contrarian ‘chattering-class’) ‘No operational-let-alone-self-managing-geocomms’ ‘No-society’ & ‘NO LIVING ENVIRONS’ 1980s FUNCTIONALISTS of every large university in the USA lorded over by great proto-classical academic neoclassical ‘collossi bestriding some real estate development landscape’ at MIT, Sandford, Harvard, Berkeley and so on and on.. add McGill MQ 🇨🇦 certainly.
THEN - oh God our help in ages past - the Australian Government [called a] Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesionon January 9, 2026, following the Bondi terror attack on December 14, 2025, which targeted a Jewish community event. Led by former High Court Justice Virginia Bell AC SC, it will report by December 14, 2026, on combating antisemitism and strengthening social cohesion.
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