Well said, Marilyn Shepherd.

For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”.

However these sacred injunctions are grossly violated by the anti-Arab anti-Semitic racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel and their Western backers variously involved in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Somali Genocide, and Afghan Genocide (post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths 0.3 million (1967-2011), 4.6 million (1990-2011), 2.2 million (1992-2011) and 5.6 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million, 2.0 million, 1.3 million and 2.9 million, respectively; refugees totalling 7 million, 5-6 million, 2 million and 3-4 million, respectively, plus a further 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun refugees).

Anti-racist Australians and indeed all anti-racists must condemn the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (since 1936, 0.1 million violent Palestinian deaths, 1.9 million deaths from war-, expulsion- and occupation-related deprivation, 7 million Palestinian refugees) (see "Palestinian Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ and the recent, multi-author book "The Plight of the Palestinians": http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ).

In particular decent, anti-racist folk will take their cue from outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian, anti-Zionist Jews from Arendt to Zinn who support universalist humanitarianism and "never again to anyone" (see "Jews Against Racist Zionism": https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ ) and the even more courageous non-Jews, especially those heroes such as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu involved in the fight against Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid in South Africa (see "Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism": https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ ).

Thus, by way of example: outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond who in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction grossly violated by racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel and its racist, genocide-committing and genocide-ignoring US Alliance backers.

Sir Isaac Isaacs, first Australian-born Governor General of Australia (1946): “The honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism."

Jewish Israeli Professor Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations at prestigious Oxford University, UK (2006): "This brief review of Israel's record over the past four decades makes it difficult to resist the conclusion that it has become a rogue state with "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". A rogue state habitually violates international law, possesses weapons of mass destruction and practises terrorism - the use of violence against civilians for political purposes. Israel fulfils all of these three criteria; the cap fits and it must wear it. Israel's real aim is not peaceful coexistence with its Palestinian neighbors but military domination."

And numerous, outstanding, anti-racist Australian Jews - including internationally renowned Jewish Australian scholars - who denounced and renounced the racist, genocidal Apartheid Israel Law of Return in the following words (2010): "We are Jews from Australia, who, like Jewish people throughout the world, have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “law of return.” While this law may seem intended to enable a Jewish homeland, we submit that it is in fact a form of racist privilege that abets the colonial oppression of the Palestinians.Today there are more than seven million Palestinian refugees around the world. Israel denies their right to return to their homes and land—a right recognized and undisputed by UN Resolution 194, the Geneva Convention, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Meanwhile, we are invited to live on that same land simply because we are Jewish, thereby potentially taking the place of Palestinians who would dearly love to return to their ancestral lands. We renounce this “right” to “return” offered to us by Israeli law. It is not right that we may “return” to a state that is not ours while Palestinians are excluded and continuously dispossessed."

Readers of this thread - the above utterly false, grossly defamatory, ad hominem abuse by an intemperate Antipodean Zionist professor is a gross departure from sensible interlocution but is the sine qua non of Zionists attempting to defend the indefensible - the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, an appalling genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention (see: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html ).

The Palestine Genocide involves 0.1 million violent Palestinian deaths since 1936 and 1.9 million avoidable Palestinian deaths in the same period from invasion-, war-, expulsion- and occupation-imposed deprivation in the same period; 7 million Palestinian refugees; 6 million Palestinians forbidden to even live in their own country; only adults of 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis permitted to vote for the government ruling all of Palestine plus the ethnically cleansed Syrian Golan Heights (Apartheid Israel's "democracy by genocide'); 0.8 million Palestinian CHILDREN indefinitely and highly abusively confined to what the Catholic Church has described as Israel's Gaza Concentration Camp without charge or trial but for the asserted "crime" of being Indigenous Palestinians still living in a tiny part of the land continuously inhabited by their forebears for thousands of years to the very dawn of agrarian civilization ( see the following eminent anti-racist Jewish sources: Professor Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People" and Professor Jared Diamond's "Guns,Germs and Steel" ).

Readers are directed to a recent multi-author book "The Plight of the Palestinians. A long history of destruction", edited by Professor William Cook (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010) in which a "holocaust", "genocide" or "ethnic cleansing" inflicted upon the Palestinians by the racist Zionist invaders is variously referred to in these precise terms by essentially all of the Jewish and non-Jewish writers, notably Stephen Lendman (outstanding anti-racist Jewish American writer), Dr Gideon Polya (biochemist; an obligatorily anti-racist writer because only a dozen of his family survived the Jewish Holocaust and hence "never again to anyone"), Professor William Cook (outstanding anti-racist American scholar), Professor Richard Falk (outstanding Jewish American professor of International law, Princeton University), the late Professor Tanya Reinhart (Jewish linguist, Tel Aviv University), Jonathan Cook (outstanding, Israel-based UK journalist), Dr Elias Akleh (Palestinian scholar), Omar Barghouti (Palestinian leader of the BDS movement to boycott Apartheid Israel), Professor James Petras (sociologist, Binghampton University,author of 66 books published in 31 languages), Dr Paul Craig Roberts (Father of Reaganomics, outstanding US economist, editor and writer), Professor Ilan Pappe (outstanding Jewish Israeli historian), Curtis B. Doebbler (outstanding US human rights lawyer), John Pilger (outstanding UK-based expatriate Australian humanitarian writer), Uri Avnery (outstanding Jewish Israeli peace activist), Professor Francis A. Boyle (outstanding human rights activist, International Law, University of Illinois), Professor Adi Ophir (philosophy, Tel Aviv University) ... (for more details see: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ).

Yet all the Zionists can do by way of response to such eminent, anti-racist scholarly opinion is to is to falsely, abusively and defamatorily bellow "anti-semite".

Outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (New York University) put the core moral issues succinctly as follows: "An all out struggle against Zionism by Jews, therefore, is also the most effective way to fight against real anti-Semitism. Furthermore, if Zionism is indeed a particularly virulent form of nationalism and, increasingly, of racism and if Israel is acting toward its captive minority in ways that resemble more and more how the Nazis treated their Jews, then we must also say so. For obvious reasons, the Zionists are very sensitive about being compared to the Nazis (not so sensitive that it has restrained them in their actions but enough to bellow "unfair" and to charge "anti-Semitism" when it happens). Yet, the facts on the ground, when not obscured by one or another Zionist rationalization, show that the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis" (see: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/resignation.php ).

Moshe Menuhin, anti-Zionist Jewish scholar and father of anti-Zionist and universalist musician Yehudi Menuhin put it more succinctly: “Jews should be Jews - not Nazis".

And outstanding Jewish Canadian writer Naomi Klein with similar economy: "“There is a debate among Jews - I'm a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: "Never again to everyone, or never again to us?... [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card...There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say, 'Never again to anyone””."

A large number of outstanding anti-racist Jewish intellectuals - from Arendt to Zinn - have slammed racist Zionism (see "Jews Against Racist Zionism": https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/home ) including numerous outstanding anti-racist Jewish Australians such as Professor Peter Singer (philosophy, bioethics, animal liberation, Princeton, Melbourne Uni) , Professor Dennis Altman (gay rights, politics, La Trobe), Antony Loewenstein (author of "My Israel Question" , organizer of Independent Australian Jewish Voices) and our most famous Jewish figure Sir Isaac Isaacs, the first Australian-born Governor General of Australia who stated in 1946 (by which time "only: 20,000 Palestinians had been killed): "The honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism."

As a 5-decade career scientist I am properly sceptical but pragmatically accept eminent opinion in particular areas - and in the matter of genocidal racist Zionism my innate conviction that racism is wrong and that racist Zionism in particular is wrong is supported by the expert opinions of a large body of outstanding, anti-racist and accordingly anti-Zionist Jewish (see: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/home) and non-Jewish (https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ ) scholars, writers and leaders.

Outstanding Australian writer Thomas Keneally was one of 18 famous writers including 3 Nobel Laureates who in an Open Letter published worldwide in 2006 slammed Apartheid Israel’s Palestinian Genocide as “[Israel’s] long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation” (see: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/18-famous-writers ).

Thomas Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an outstanding Australian novelist, playwright and author of fiction and non-fiction. His novel Schindler's Ark won the Booker Prize in 1982, was inspired by Holocaust survivor Poldek Pfefferberg, and was to Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning movie Schindler's List. He recently published “Three Famines” an account of the Israeli-complicit Ethiopian famine (1984-1987, excess deaths 2.1 million), the Disraeli-complicit Irish Famine (1845-1850, 1 million dead, 1.5 million forced to emigrate) and the pro-Zionist Churchill’s 1942-1945 Bengali Holocaust in which the British deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death (see Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/ ). His novel The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972) was about the (ongoing) Aboriginal Genocide (2 million deaths from violence, deprivation and disease, 1788-2012; see: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ) and was also made into a movie (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keneally ).

For an alphabetical compendium of the opinions of other outstanding Jewish and non-Jewish writers who protest the ongoing racist Zionist Palestinian Genocide - Palestinian ethnic cleansing , Palestinian holocaust, Palestinian liquidation - see "Palestinian Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/home .

Nevertheless the pro-war, pro-US imperialism, pro-Zionist Gillard Labor Government and the Coalition Opposition continue to ignore the expert, humane advice of outstanding anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish writers from Australia and around the world, preferring the advice of the genocidal racists running Apartheid Israel - "a rogue state with "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders"" according to outstanding Jewish Israeli scholar Professor Avi Shlaim of Oxford - . and their Zionist Lobby supporters in Australia.

Getting rid of the Gillard-led pro-Zionist extremist faction and restoration of Kevin Rudd will not save Labor. The Australian Labor Party (aka the Apartheid Labor Party, Apartheid Israel-supporting Labor Party, Another Liberal Party, the Alternative Liberal Party) is doomed unless it reverts to anti-genocide humanitarianism - as in the era when all decent folk opposed Apartheid Israel-backed, Nazi--style Apartheid in South Africa - and demands the sidelining of racist Zionists from public life as has already happened to like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK.