Dr Max Kaiser is one of the executive officers of the Jewish Council of Australia and the author of Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne and lives on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
Inspired by anti-fascist organizing in the 1940s, a group of progressive Jewish activists have formed the Jewish Council of Australia. Its goal is to challenge the hegemony of right-wing, Zionist groups that claim to speak for all Jewish Australians.
Australia’s sadistic border regime doesn’t stop at its offshore detention camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. As those island prisons are wound down, a new asylum-seeker-led organization is campaigning for basic rights for those living in precarious situations inside Australian borders.