"These Jews, who are voicing a different moral stance and refuse to remain silent, may in fact be saving face for many other Jews and Israelis, showing that they are not all conflated with Israel and its ultranationalist and openly racist government."archive.is/ksG8x@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #AusPol #Herzog #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide #WarCrimes #JewishCouncilOfAustralia

Haaretz Today 
Not So Useful Idiot: When Israel's Opposition Leader Calls Australian Jews 'Hamas Lackeys'
By branding Jews who voice legitimate criticism of Israel as 'useful idiots' who are supposedly trying to conceal their Jewish identity, Yair Lapid plays into antisemitic tropes that cast Jews as traitors and agitators

[image: grey-haired man in dark suit with Israeli flag in background.
caption: Opposition leader, Yair Lapid in 2022. Credit: Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP]

David Issacharoff
February 05, 2026•Updated:February 04, 2026

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