‘A wall of silence led to Auschwitz,’ said the president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, at this week’s 80th-year commemoration of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp. Tellingly, Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda unit ‘national broadcaster’ chose to be silent by its absence.
Australia’s ABC television has found itself an international outlier, with nearly all major television networks around the world converging on Poland to cover the 80th commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau […]
Seventy eight global television networks from all points of the world including Japan, Korea, the United States, France, Germany, Canada and Britain, had to regularly rotate through 30 live positions overlooking the Birkenau camp.
But not the ABC. Nor Australia’s other taxpayer-funded broadcaster, SBS. The same broadcasters who regularly send fleets of staff to ‘climate conferences’ in exotic locales around the world, or to likewise tapxayer-funded ‘indigenous’ beanos.
Despite a billion-dollar plus annual budget, which includes multiple journalists whooping up in Europe on the taxpayer dime, the ABC was unable to do what Australia’s commercial networks managed.
Other Australian media outlets, Channel Seven, Nine, and Sky Australia as well as press journalists from the Australian, News Corp Australia, the Financial Review and other Nine Entertainment mastheads were in attendance […]
Auschwitz-Birkenau communications director Pawel Sawicki said this year’s commemoration was the biggest in the museum’s history.
“The media from the main press agencies, the big televisions, the radio stations: it’s really the world of journalists here. The world is represented by all the media here,’’ he said.
Apart from the ABC.
Childhood Holocaust survivor Eddy Boas says the ABC’s decision to not send journalists to Poland for commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was “a disgrace” […]
He said the national broadcaster’s failure to commit any on-the-ground resources to its coverage of the commemoration was particularly disappointing, given the recent spate of antiSemitic attacks in Australia […]
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council executive manager Joel Burnie said the ABC’s failure to send a TV crew to Poland was a “stark reflection of its broader lack of commitment to addressing the gravity of anti-Semitism in Australia. This neglect, coupled with their often one-sided, anti-Israel coverage, reveals a troubling tendency to marginalise critical issues impacting the Australian Jewish community.”
To heap insult on injury, the Albanese government sent the worst person imaginable to represent Australia: the virulently anti-Israel Penny Wong. Nobody is fooled by Wong’s crocodile tears.
The words of the Holocaust survivors will stay with me, always,’’ she said.
More likely only until the next ‘pro-Palestine’ thug bellows the genocidal Hamas war-chant, ‘From the River to the Sea’: then she’ll be all ears and ever-ready to berate Israel for defending itself.
The absolute chutzpah of Wong – or anyone from the Albanese government – babbling about ‘where anti-Semitism, hatred and intolerance lead’ is just too much to stomach. They’ve been all-too happy to tolerate, or at best, stay silent, while a dark tide of anti-Semitism washes from the Labor heartland of Western Sydney. Anything to hold onto a few tawdry votes.
