Former Adelaide Writers’ Week creative director Louise Adler has been criticised by Australia’s peak Jewish body for calling the royal commission on antisemitism “an opportunity for pro-Israel propagandists” and “McCarthyites”. In a fundraising letter this week to the 1300 members of the progressive Jewish Council of Australia (JCA), Adler called on the organisation to provide an “alternative perspective to the Jewish establishment” by subsidising submissions to the Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Royal Commission being led by Justice Virginia Bell. Loading...