Back in December, The Australian ran a report on the $42,000 taxpayer grant given to anti-Israel artist behind Jewish WhatsApp group leak.
An anti-Israel children’s author involved in disseminating the details of dozens of Jewish Australian creatives has received more than $40,000 in taxpayers’ money to pen a book about the police, after previously co-writing works questioning Australia Day and attacking “colonial” statues.
Matt Chun – whom The Australian has previously reported was apparently involved in the wide leaking of hundreds of Jewish creatives’ details from a WhatsApp group – received the grant from Creative Australia last year.
Details of the grant had not been publicly known until now.
In response to a question on notice in Senate estimates, Creative Australia said Chun – real name Matthew Jones – received a $42,452 grant at the end of May 2023 to publish a picture book by August 2025.
“Policing in Australia: a collaborative illustrated book project by Amy McQuire and Matt Chun,” the project description reads. “Matt will contribute his experience as an artist, writer, and children’s author.
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In Senate estimates, opposition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson described the book as one where “children are basically encouraged to laugh with statues being chopped off”.
“I’m deeply concerned that there are many decisions being made which are improperly funding people in this country who are supporting improper behaviour, anti-Australian hatred,” she said.
The Australian has previously reported Chun was the apparent leader of the leaking of hundreds of Jewish creatives’ details from a WhatsApp group.
“Having now read the entire transcript, I’ll research and publish a number of posts about specific individuals from this leaked group chat, and the organisations with which they intersect,” he wrote on Instagram at the time.
“The group chat confirms what we already know: Zionists are thoroughly racist, thoroughly anti-Indigenous and thoroughly committed to colonialism.”
The leaking led to abuse and harassment of people and businesses whose details were disseminated. The incident led to the acceleration of the Albanese government’s anti-doxxing reform.
Chun also split this year from the State Library of Victoria, where he was the Children’s Literature Fellow, and accused the library of having “unambiguously aligned itself with the Zionist colonial project”.
I haven’t been following Chun too closely – let’s just say too many haters, too little time – but some of his recent posts have come to my attention. And calling him merely “anti-Israel” is doing a disservice.
He’s an outright Jew-hater wishing genocide on us, as his latest Instagram stories reveal:
Exhibit A: comparing us to the Nazis, while showing blatant support for Hamas and their genocidal actions:
Exhibit B: More support for Hamas, while using Hitleresque, antisemitic imagery and tropes to describe Zionism and Zionists (“filth”, “depracvity,” “wealth, power, and influence,” “the shadows,” “parasitic”)
Exhibit C: Expressing a desire for the mass genocide of the Jewish people in Israel, while agreeing with the sentiment not to trust any Jewish person who doesn’t agree:
Remember, this violence-lover is the same guy who was part of the doxxing of the Jewish creatives. It should send even more shivers down our collective spines. As should the idea he writes books for children and receives government funding for that.
