The Jewish War on White Australia: Refugee Policy and the African Crime Plague, Part 2
Reaping the whirlwind of decades of Jewish activism
Australia’s African (and Pacific Islander, and Middle Eastern) crime epidemic is the inevitable result of the successful campaign waged by Jewish activists to end Australia’s White Australia policy. As detailed in my series of essays entitled The War on White Australia, Jewish ethnic activism was pivotal in overthrowing Australia’s longstanding European-only immigration policy. The Jewish academic Dan Goldberg proudly acknowledges this, noting that “In addition to their activism on Aboriginal issues, Jews were instrumental in leading the crusade against the White Australia policy, a series of laws from 1901 to 1973 that restricted non-White immigration to Australia.”
Jews have likewise been at the forefront of those lobbying for a massively expanded refugee intake for Australia (both in terms of numbers and countries of origin). Walter Lippmann, the Jewish community leader and activist who chaired the committee that produced the first parliamentary report strongly endorsing state-sponsored multiculturalism, also played a critical role, alongside former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, in shaping Australia’s current refugee policy. That Fraser was such a willing ally of Lippmann is perhaps not surprising given that Fraser’s mother, Una Woolf, was of Jewish descent. In her 2010 biography Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs (co-written by Fraser), Margaret Simons notes that Fraser’s “mother’s father Louis Woolf had been born in New Zealand, the son of a Jewish father who had emigrated from South Africa, and Esther Reuben. Una believed that her grandmother was not Jewish, but the name suggests that the Jewish heritage may have been on both sides of the family.”[i] Thus Malcolm Fraser was, it seems, Jewish enough to qualify as a citizen of Israel. Read more