This article examines the orchestrated campaign to cancel Sarah Schwartz, a human rights lawyer and academic, for using satire during a university presentation. The author argues that the campaign, fueled by right-wing lobby groups and pro-Israel organizations, exemplifies the dangers of cancel culture and the suppression of dissenting voices.
In the social media age, satire is highly risky because it can be so easily misunderstood or deliberately misrepresented.
Sacco apologised profusely, saying she thought “there was no way that anyone could think” her joke was meant to be taken literally. She was duly fired and shamed around the world. In the course of her presentation, Schwartz likened Peter Dutton to Donald Trump, criticising their avowed hostility to many minority groups while they opportunistically support Israel and its supporters, no matter what. One of the slides that she useddepicting a character called “Dutton’s Jew” – pilloried the opposition leader for treating the Jewish community as monolithic, and as defenders of “Western civilisation” from other racial minorities.
They are only too aware that the ABC has wilted under such pressure before, including in the case of Abdel-Magied and, more recently, as alleged by Antoinette Lattouf, who I am representing in her unlawful termination case against the public broadcaster., dumped this week by another broadcaster, SEN, after he reposted items on X about Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the released Israeli hostages. Lalor “strongly objected” to accusations by complainants that he was antisemitic.
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