Australian Gaslighter-in-Chief Nasser Mashni and others have filed a legal action in the Federal Court against News Corp Australia and its subsidiaries responsible for Sky News, The Australian and The Herald Sun. The cause of action? Alleged racial discrimination and hatred.
News Corp is being taken to court over alleged racial discrimination and hatred against Palestinians and Arab Muslims.
Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni, Engy Abdelsalam and five others have filed a legal action in the Federal Court against News Corp Australia and its subsidiaries responsible for Sky News, The Australian and The Herald Sun.
The group, represented by Birchgrove Legal, has accused the publications of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act by unlawfully publishing or broadcasting discriminatory content, and public comments made in response, and failing to remove those comments.
It also alleges their editorial agendas were irresponsible, bad-faith, sensationalist, factually distorted, and more, which fostered hate, ridicule, dehumanisation, and collective blame against Muslim, Arab and Palestinian Australians.
“During this current genocide, Palestinians who are grieving and suffering have been openly ridiculed and demonised by News Corp,” Mr Mashni said.
“Those companies have engaged in hateful, extreme, dangerous, divisive and racist conduct, and it’s time that they stopped being treated as credible news sources.”
Should the group’s case succeed, the outlets could be forced to take down the alleged discriminatory content, pay damages and make a donation to a community organisation that aims to eliminate racial discrimination.
High-profile commentators and journalists including Andrew Bolt, Rita Panahi, Caleb Bond and Sharri Markson have all been named as individuals who created or broadcast the allegedly discriminatory content.
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Evidence in the original complaints included a February 2025 opinion piece which claimed “the underbelly of anti-Semitism is very strong within Muslim communities”, a September 2024 opinion piece that labelled Islam “the modern world’s most violent religious ideology”, and a comment made on Sky that “some children in Gaza and the West Bank are brought up to hate Jews”.
I have not read the complaint but based on the above report, I posit that the statements “the underbelly of anti-Semitism is very strong within Muslim communities” and “some children in Gaza and the West Bank are brought up to hate Jews” are extremely easy to prove.
But I want to focus on something else here, and that is the absolutely chutzpah of Nasser Mashni and his representatives Birchgrove Legal.
I have meticulously documented Mashni’s own antisemitism on this website, but you can revisit some examples here, here, here, here, here, and here. His rallies are also replete with it. In other words, Mashni has no business accusing anyone else of racial discrimination and hatred, when he is constantly engaging in it himself.
The same can be said for Birchgrove Legal, his legal attack dogs.
Moustafa Kheir, their Principal Solicitor, has shown his own sickening antisemitism. He has compared “Zionists” to Nazis, against the IHRA working definition of antisemitism:
and has retweeted Adam Houda demonizing all Israelis as the cruelest animals on the planet (using a fake quote):
Meanwhile, their solicitor Rita Jabri Markwell is even more prolific with her antisemitism. She has retweeted a tweet besmirching the “Israel lobby” as supporting apartheid, murder and Gaza’s destruction:
amplified the comparison of Israel to the Nazis:
amplified the antisemitic trope of the Jew as “baby killer”:
amplified the antisemitic blood libel that we steal organs:
promoted hate based on lies against “Zionists” (aka over 90% of Jews):
suggested antisemitism is not really a thing, except for a tool to silence pro palestinian people, or otherwise diminished antisemitism:
and has implied one shouldn’t hire an Israeli (which is discrimination on basis of nationality):
Nasser Mashni and his legal team want the Federal Court to believe they are noble crusaders against hatred, while their own public record drips with the very prejudice, demonization and incitement they claim to oppose.
Mashni and Birchgrove Legal aren’t fighting discrimination; they are trying to weaponize the legal system to protect their own right to practice it.
