Category Archives: Democracy And Terrorism

A valuable task for AI: assist the Bell Royal Commission

Andrew L. Urban.  With just two months before the Bell Royal Commissioner is due to deliver her final report and recommendations to the Governor General, the Commission has a mountain of more than 20,000 submissions to absorb & analyse (including … Continue reading →

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Free us from “free Palestine”, begs Brendan O’Neill

Andrew L. Urban. Apart from agreeing with him, I was struck by the colourful writing in a column by Brendan O’Neill, chief political writer for Spiked, published in The Australian (Sept. 17, 2026). He abhors “insufferable Gazaholics”, “zombie hordes of … Continue reading →

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Islam’s evil not just on 9/11

Andrew L. Urban. What with July 7*, October 7 and December 14 marked as dark days in the calendar, we don’t need the 25th anniversary of 9/11 as the Americans have it, to raise our consciousness about the implacable evil … Continue reading →

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What Bell Royal Commission must do, for starters

Andrew L. Urban. As the Bell Royal Commission closes down taking incoming fire over its ultimately limp, incomplete approach to its task of exploring how Australia could so quickly be so rocked by antisemitism, perhaps we can help … 

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Muslim vote tail wagging Labor policy dog

Andrew L. Urban. Both foreign and domestic policy decisions by the Albanese Labor government are being skewed by the Muslim vote in a handful of seats, mostly in Western Sydney. Protecting this vote has fused Labor’s anti-Israel sentiment in foreign … Continue reading →

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Royal Commission: there was (is) time – where was (is) the will?

Andrew L. Urban. Like the PM who aimed at guns not radical Islam in response to the Bondi massacre, the Royal Commissioner is also blind to a key question: what role did the Government’s actions, inactions and behaviour play in … Continue reading →

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Australia’s disreputable Royal Commission

Andrew L. Urban. I made my submission to the Royal Commission on February 25, 2026. The main thrust of it is that the socio-political environment in Australia which tolerated antisemitic demonstrations and riots was in large part stimulated by the … Continue reading →

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They can ban the film but can’t dismiss the issue

Andrew L. Urban  Citizen Vigilante is an ugly film, writes acclaimed author and columnist Douglas Murray in The Free Press. “It has been banned in Germany, viewed by millions of people on X, and is currently the number one film in … Continue reading →

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Zionists rule the world … not very well, though

Shiite activist Haj Hassanain Rajabali echoes historical Catholic antisemitic narratives. He accuses Zionists of controlling global media, wars, and moral decay – which doesn’t readily explain the global rise of antisemitism, carried by global media. The Middle East Forum reports … Continue reading →

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Zero tolerance for radical Islam – the Hanson doctrine

Andrew L. Urban You could have heard a hand grenade pin drop … Australia should be a multiracial, Judeo-Christian monoculture, not multicultural, Senator Pauline Hanson said in her June 17, 2026 speech at the National Press Club, planting her stake … Continue reading →

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