Antisemitism Envoy’s Refusal to Criticise Neo-Nazis Reveals Her Role is a Ruse

The official version of events is that Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal has come up with a plan to prevent a crisis in Jewish prejudice in the public sphere. The truth on the ground is that arch-Zionist Jillian Segal is seeking to engineer a societywide suppression of Palestinian support and identity. And the envoy’s refusal to condemn rising neo-Nazism reveals her ruse.

Segal was appointed by PM Anthony Albanese in July 2024, back when the public was new to ideas of Zionism and were too being increasingly inundated with chastising claims about rising antisemitism. It was also prior to the now broader understanding that Zionists conflate criticism of the Israeli setter colonial project with Judaism to then demonise opposition to it as antisemitic.

But after the 31 August 2025 March for Australia protests were overrun by neo-Nazis, Segal declined to comment on this most overt expression of Jewish hatred, which evokes the Holocaust, stating at a recent Gold Coast forum on antisemitism that she wouldn’t be commenting on “any particular incident”, and she instead clarified that antisemitism is shredding the entire social fabric.

After waxing lyrical about the Jewish prejudice latent in the Palestinian movement’s rallies, and suggesting that they be moved out of city centres, as they make people feel unsafe, Segal found it unnecessary to condemn neo-Nazis intimidating and threatening non-European people on the streets, just as she neither raised any affront to the late 2024 Victorian parliament rally against Jews.

Perhaps the most outrageous development in the ongoing saga of the envoy, however, is that it’s now come to light that in order to facilitate her mission of hunting down rampant antisemitism, Albanese is paying her over $1 million a year to suggest ideas, like the cutting of funding to universities judged as antisemitic, and Segal further appears to harbour white supremacist leanings.

Strange days indeed

Segal gave the keynote remarks at the 3 September 2025 Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism on the Gold Coast, which was put on by interfaith Zionist umbrella group the Combat Antisemitism Movement. And this move towards local government level social engineering has precedent, as CAM too staged the 2024 North American mayoral summit against antisemitism.

Albanese appointed Segal to the position of Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in July 2024, long before the so-called antisemitism crimewave took place on Gadigal land in Sydney and in Naarm-Melbourne over October 2024 to February 2025. And Segal produced her Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism on 10 July 2025 : a week after a man set fire to an East Melbourne synagogue.

The true nature of the antisemitic attacks in Greater Sydney was immediately questioned by locals who queried why they were being labelled as antisemitic, as they conveyed the message, “Fuck Israel”: a political statement about Tel Aviv’s commission of a genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. However, once the messaging shifted to target Jews, this complaint could no longer be raised.

Segal and other notable Zionists chastised the community and subtly implied the Palestine solidarity movement was complicit in the series of arson and graffiti attacks, and this continued until March 2025, when NSW police and the AFP revealed that organised crime had staged the incidents to convey a false impression for their own purposes, while ASIO recently blamed Iran for two incidents.

Taking place at a Gold Coast resort, the CAM antisemitism summit involved mayors listening to speeches about the scourge of antisemitism and hopefully going back to their local government areas to inject that sentiment back into their communities and those present were provided with the Antisemitic Symbols Since October 7 report in order to assist them in ferreting out antisemitism.

The antisemitism symbol booklet, however, does suggest why Segal is happy to leave the neo-Nazis to run and play violently in city streets, and that is because all the symbols that CAM and event organisers consider do mark antisemitism in the present setting also symbolise Palestine, so in order to combat antisemitism in the community, Segal is attempting to erase Palestinian identity.

Key symbols that mayors are supposed to be on the lookout for include watermelons, inverted red triangles, red hands, the time out hand symbol, phrases “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free”, “Free Palestine” and “Zionism is racism”, or even making the statement that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza is taken to be a form of hatred towards the adherents of Judaism.

White supremacist leanings

Writing in The Klaxon, Anthony Klan has revealed that Segal receives over $1,000 a day and has six staffers, along with offices in both Sydney and Melbourne, in order to assist her in identifying antisemitism, which she and NSW premier Chris Minns have noted is a “shape-shifting” form of prejudice, which is apparent when comparing a Nazi swastika alongside the common watermelon.

The Klaxon also divulged in mid-July that Segal’s family trust is the second biggest donor to ultraconservative rightwing political lobbying group Advance, which pushes a white nationalist agenda. Advance produces social media content that involves racist tropes about immigrants, which promote social division in the public sphere in an attempt to stirrup racial division.

The woman whom our prime minister hired to promote social cohesion in the community, via the stamping out of a mostly nonexistent or otherwise manufactured antisemitic crimewave, has shrugged off the accusation that she is a key donor to the Australian hate group by suggesting that it is actually her husband John Roth, who is the keen dog whistler in the family.

Not only does Segal’s husband financially foster antiimmigration and white nationalist sentiment, but the neo-Nazi rallying that the envoy has refused to call out was part of a much larger mobilisation of the Australian Freedom movement, which a key demographic for Advance. So, Segal would not call out the neo-Nazis, who were marching alongside large numbers calling for an end to immigration.

Stoking social division

The key recommendation Segal has made in her effort to combat antisemitism in the Australian setting is that the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) working definition on antisemitism be adopted at all levels of government, public institutions and regulatory bodies. However, this definition conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism and hence, serves to block it.

The IHRA definition bases its need to prevent the antisemitism that led to the World War II Nazi Holocaust against a dehumanised Jewish population and led to the mass murder of 6 million Jews. But instead, the IHRA definition, simply because it does capture certain political criticisms of Israel, is now being weaponised to block all criticism of Israel, which has nothing to do with antisemitism.

The reason that a charge of antisemitism is so grave in the public sphere is that it was wielded by the Nazis in an attempt to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe during the Second World War, and when local neo-Nazis, the National Social Network (NSN), rally on the city streets, they are openly expressing white supremacist sentiment and prejudice towards nonwhite people and Jews.

When Holocaust survivors are still living in the Australian community and large numbers of black-clad white supremacists mobilised in celebration of the Nazi ethic that led to the genocide against the Jewish people, it would appear as grave negligence on Segal’s part, in her role as envoy, not to call it out, especially as this most extreme threat to social cohesion involves antisemitism left unchecked.

So, the real question for civil society is how long it will accept a snake oil salesperson, fleecing it with false proclamations about religious prejudice and social cohesion, whilst genuine examples of Jewish hatred are left to run wild on the city streets, which would appear to reveal that the ultimate impact of Albanese’s special envoy on antisemitism is the stoking social division in a time of genocide.