MEDIA RELEASE
02 April 2026
Jewish Council raises alarm about antisemitism, racism and homophobia in One Nation and calls on government at all levels to take decisive action to fight far-right extremism
The Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) has expressed deep alarm following an ABC investigation into One Nation candidates in South Australia, which revealed a history of alleged domestic abuse, virulent homophobia, and blatant Holocaust denialism.
The investigation into candidates Bruce Preece and Tyler Green highlights the dangerous and overlooked surge in far-right extremism that targets not only the Jewish community but all marginalised groups.
“What we are seeing in these candidates is a textbook example of the intersectional nature of far-right bigotry,” said Bart Shteinman, Executive Officer of the Jewish Council of Australia.
“Antisemitism never exists in a vacuum. It is almost always bundled with racism, homophobia, and a disturbing tolerance for violence against women.”
“When you have a candidate promoting Holocaust denial literature while simultaneously using racial and homophobic slurs, you are looking at a worldview that is fundamentally incompatible with a multicultural democracy like Australia.”
Green’s social media posts railing against “Jewish bankster wars” and “pesky Judeans” rely on the very trope of a monolithic Jewish community that the JCA has been fighting against since its inception.
“It is time that governments at all levels, including Australia’s Antisemitism Envoy, condemn the antisemitism that permeates the far right. These remarks rely upon the antisemitic idea that Jews act as a singular, conspiratorial global power and they must be called out in the strongest terms.”
When far-right activist group Advance hosted a holocaust minimiser just a few weeks ago, the Antisemitism Envoy, legacy Jewish institutions and government all failed to speak out against these remarks.
These revelations are a continuation of this very same logic and they require a whole of society approach to condemning all forms of hatred that emanate from the far-right.
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism must focus its attention on the genuine contemporary drivers of harm: conspiracist and far-right movements, rather than mislocating the problem in lawful political advocacy or campus activism. It must focus on an approach that tackles all forms of hatred together, rather than addressing antisemitism in isolation.
“While pro-Israel opportunists are often quick to weaponise allegations of antisemitism to smear their political opponents, there is a deafening silence when it comes to the radicalisation happening on the far-right,” said Shteinman.
“The fact that a candidate who promoted a book claiming the Holocaust is an ‘evil conspiracy’ can win 43% per cent of the two party preferred vote should be a wake-up call. Just because One Nation is pro-Israel does not mean it is a friend of Jewish Australians. We cannot have a conversation about ‘social cohesion’ that ignores the mainstreaming of neo-Nazi and white nationalist talking points within a political party currently surging in popularity.”
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