Israeli President Isaac Herzog is in Australia for his solidarity visit with the Australian Jewish community. But not before the haters tried to have the visit cancelled.
Haters including the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA), who took out a full page ad in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald:
You may recall that the JCA is the shady group pretending to represent Australian Jews, while only representing an extremist fringe of Israel-hating ones. It was recently reported they teamed up with a Hezbollah-linked group and a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated network to demand that the Australian government deny President Herzog a visa. Their head, Sarah Schwartz, has herself dabbled in antisemitic tropes, and it is highly doubtful all of their members are even Jewish.
The JCA are claiming “over 1000 Jews” signed the petition:
Even if this is true, there are around 120,000 Jews in Australia. So this would represent a paltry 0.83% of them.
But even that amount is a bridge too far for them.
You see, there are only 687 names on the list. And the JCA previously admitted to only “hundreds” of names, not a thousand:
So they are lying to inflate the already puny number.
But it gets worse. Anyone – not just Jews – could sign the petition:
The petition preamble states:
NOTE: Hundreds of Jewish Australians have signed this open letter to be published in The Age and SMH. Although the ad has now been finalised, we are still collecting signatures and asking for both Jews and allies to sign on – please sign the petition below.
which might indicate that only Jewish Australians appear in the final ad, and the addition of non-Jews later was just to brag about, as they did in the caption to the post.
But I highly doubt this. In fact, a look at the names appearing on the petition show a disproportionate amount that do not look like Jewish names at all. You can click on the first image in this post and magnify it to see for yourselves. But here’s a sample I prepared; the highlighted names being those most likely to be not Jewish:
More than that, one name is clearly a successful trolling attempt:
Melakék táchat in Hebrew – מלקק תחת – means “ass licker”!
So, to recap: we have a group that can’t count, can’t vet, and apparently can’t read Hebrew. They don’t speak for Australian Jews. They don’t even come close. And while President Herzog meets a community that actually represents Jewish Australia, the JCA is left with nothing but a full-page ad with some creative accounting and a literal ‘Ass Licker.’
Updates:
9/2/26 11:00: It gets worse.
9/2/26 12:40: An eagle-eyed observer notices more trolling names:
BREAKING: The @jewishcouncilAU claims over 1,000 Jews opposed @Isaac_Herzog's visit
— Kaye Efcee IV (@KayEfceeIV) February 9, 2026
It’s fitting that the names include Eliezer Gruenbaum, Carmen Mory, and Josef Heiden – famous for their roles as Kapos in Nazi concentration camps.https://t.co/eAmLZ2Hagrhttps://t.co/opZcxVtKPY pic.twitter.com/hvoFpgB7CB
9/2/26 14:25: From one of the supposed “signatories”:
