The following article was written by ECAJ Research Officer Julie Nathan, and this version was published on ABC Religion and Ethics. It was ori­gin­ally published on The Times of Israel.

Antipodean Resistance: The Rise and Goals of Australia’s New Nazis

Julie Nathan
ABC Religion and Ethics
April 20, 2018
Seventy years after the crushing defeat of Nazi Germany, Nazi ideas and groups are re-emerging through­out the West.
Although Nazism remains on the political fringes, adherents are increas­ingly active and emboldened in propagat­ing the antisemitism, white supremacy, racist hate and homo­pho­bia that are intrinsic to Nazi ideology.
In Australia, a new neo-Nazi group, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance, emerged publicly in October 2016 with their vile pro­pa­ganda. Anti­podean Res­ist­ance promotes and incites hatred and violence, as seen through some of its anti-Jewish and anti-homo­sexu­al posters, with graphic images of shooting Jews and homo­sexu­als in the head. One poster called to “Legalise the execution of Jews.”
In addition, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance has con­nec­tions to groups overseas who have committed terrorist acts and/or are pro­scribed terrorist organ­isa­tions. The group also espouses support for lit­er­at­ure that calls for guerrilla warfare and terrorism. Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is a small but highly active group.

Origin

Anti­podean Res­ist­ance (AR) had its incub­a­tion on the Iron March website, composed of forums for neo-Nazi hate groups, in February 2016 with a handful of people. The group was initially without a name or logo, but was aimed at “younger NatSocs, 14 – 25″ to be “a new group. One that will take the fight to the enemy” – for example: “a synagogue and intim­id­ate the scum and let them know your [sic] serious,” as recorded by Iron March members “Chud” and “Kehl­stein­haus” (on 29 February 2016).
By 10 October 2016, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance had a name and logo, and its own sub-forum on Iron March. One of its other members, “Xav” (whose profile marked his “Interests” as “Gassing kikes”), posted the group’s catch­phrase: “We’re the Hitlers you’ve been waiting for.”

Ideology and symbology

Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is a neo-Nazi group. It is antisemitic, white suprem­acist, anti-homo­sexu­al and against non-white immig­ra­tion. The group expresses ven­er­a­tion for Adolf Hitler and espouses National Socialism (Nazism) as an ideology. It is hostile to all people they consider to be non-Europeans, but Jews are seen as the primary and ultimate enemy.
Nazi ideology espouses belief in antisemitic con­spir­acy theories. Jews as a group are portrayed as con­trolling the mech­an­isms of power in the world – banking, gov­ern­ment and media – to the utter detriment of the European races. This old con­spir­acy theory has been updated to include the more con­tem­por­ary con­vic­tion that “the Jews” are plotting “White Genocide” through mass immig­ra­tion of non-whites into white majority countries.
In the Nazi racial hierarchy, Jews are at the bottom of humanity (and, indeed, are con­sidered sub-human), under­neath all other races, eth­ni­cit­ies and nation­al­it­ies. This racial hierarchy is based on the Nazi idea of the eternal battle between “the Aryan race” and “the Jewish race” as the prot­ag­on­ists in a cosmic battle between good and evil, and other peoples are mere back­ground scenery in Nazi apo­ca­lyptic visions.
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance ideology is expressed through their symbols, several of which are derived directly from Nazi Germany. The Anti­podean Res­ist­ance flag is blue and white with a black swastika. Members are pho­to­graphed wearing the skull mask of the Totenkopf (Death’s Head), which was used as the symbol of Hitler’s SS units, and a white Akubra-style hat. This is reflected in the logo most commonly used, that of the Totenkopf mask and Akubra-style hat perched above a swastika, with the back­ground being the Black Sun (Schwarze Sonne in German) symbol, also known as the Sun Wheel (sonnenrad in German), sur­roun­ded by a wreath.

Aims

Anti­podean Res­ist­ance has expressed some of its aims and plans on its website:

• “We National Social­ists here, as well as our brothers abroad, are going to take our nations back.” (posted on 28 December 2016)
• “We are not a mass movement. We do not want the masses. We want the fanatics, the people who care and who will fight, both during activism and during their day to day lives to bring about the beauty that is National Socialism. We want quality people who mean what they say and will not back down. We are striving for nothing less than the national rebirth of our people. And we will get there only with those fanatic enough to do something about it.” (posted on 23 April 2017)

In an interview on the Daily Stormer (21 February 2017), a U.S.-based Nazi website, a member of Anti­podean Res­ist­ance stated that:

“Our immediate goals are to gather all fanatical National Socialist young Aus­trali­ans into one youth movement, and not only be polit­ic­ally active, but also embody our worldview as National Social­ists … We’ll continue doing what we’re doing now, which is mainly postering, stick­er­ing, and physical activ­it­ies, but will move on to rallies and demon­stra­tions in the future.”

Banners dropped from bridges over highways by Anti­podean Res­ist­ance from January 2018 onwards express another aim: “White Revolu­tion is the only Solution.”

Inspirations and international connections

Through online activity and engage­ment on the Iron March web-forum, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members became inspired by and linked with other neo-Nazi groups, such as National Action (NA) in Britain, Nordic Res­ist­ance Movement (NRM) in Norway, Sweden and Finland, Atom­waf­fen Division (AWD) in the United States, and others.
The inspir­a­tion for Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is stated on its website:

“We’re inspired by three main groups, the greatest of all being National Action in the UK, but the Nordic Res­ist­ance Movement and of course the National Socialist German Worker’s Party are major inspir­a­tions. National Action is the best model for a new group of young men to use in this day and age … The Nordic Res­ist­ance Movement would have to be the premier current National Socialist organ­isa­tion in the world, and their style is what we would hope to trans­ition towards into the future.” (posted on 21 February 2017)

The beliefs and actions of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party – namely, Hitler’s Nazi Party – are a matter of public record, in history books and court cases. However, the other groups and lit­er­at­ure that heavily inspires Anti­podean Res­ist­ance are less well known. A concise descrip­tion of these formative influ­ences and models for Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is provided below, showing a glimpse into their beliefs and violence.
IRON MARCH

Iron March is the neo-Nazi web-forum where Anti­podean Res­ist­ance was incubated. But Iron March was also the incubator of several other groups, who became asso­ci­ated with each other and with Anti­podean Res­ist­ance. An invest­ig­at­ive article by James Poulter makes the links between various groups on Iron March.
Iron March has as its logo: “GAS THE KIKES, RACE WAR NOW, 1488 BOOTS ON THE GROUND!” The term “Kikes” is a pejor­at­ive and intensely derog­at­ory term for Jews; “1488” refers to the 14 words of white supremacy (coined by David Lane: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”) and the numbers 88 cor­res­ponds to the letters H.H. (“Heil Hitler”).
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members maintain con­nec­tions with Iron March, espe­cially through pro­pa­ganda material. For example, the term used on Anti­podean Res­ist­ance banners: “White Revolu­tion is the only Solution” was also used on Iron March posters in Toronto, Canada, in November 2017; also on the poster was the logo “Join your local Nazis” and the image of the SS Death’s Head and hat, which are also used by Anti­podean Res­ist­ance.
NATIONAL ACTION
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is inspired by National Action (NA) in the UK, which was pro­scribed as a terrorist organ­isa­tion in December 2016. However, National Action continues to operate under various guises and under­ground. In September 2017, five members of National Action were arrested for pre­par­a­tion for terrorist acts, and in January 2018, another six members were arrested for pre­par­a­tion for terrorist acts.
National Action members voiced support for the murder of British MP Jo Cox, in June 2016. The convicted murderer, Thomas Mair, was a supporter of extremist right-wing groups, including National Action. The group has also held demon­stra­tions with banners declaring that “Hitler was right.” National Action “has been filmed telling a small group of sup­port­ers about “the disease of inter­na­tion­al Jewry” and that “when the time comes they’ll be in the chambers.” It has also been filmed training sup­port­ers in hand-to-hand combat.
NORDIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is also inspired by the Nordic Res­ist­ance Movement (NRM) which has affil­i­ates in Norway, Sweden and Finland, and was formed in 2016. Members of the Swedish affiliate were convicted of carrying out three bombing attacks in November 2016 and January 2017. The NRM was banned in Finland in November 2017.
The Nordic Res­ist­ance Movement manifesto, “Our Path” (September 2016), in its 52 pages states:

“In order to overcome global Zionism and save our planet in the long run, it is not enough for those of us in the Nordic region, to fight this alone … Our efforts will therefore include allying ourselves with other nations and gov­ern­ments willing to break free from modern global enslave­ment.”

The NRM seeks alliances with others opposed to the so-called “Zionist world order.” Anti­podean Res­ist­ance con­nec­tions with the NRM include AR member “Xav” being inter­viewed on NRM radio, on the Finnish branch’s Studio 204, in February 2018.
ATOMWAFFEN DIVISION
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance, although not naming Atom­Waf­fen Division (AWD) as a group they are inspired by, has remark­able sim­il­ar­it­ies to various aspects of AWD. This sim­il­ar­ity occurs in the images and text in pro­pa­ganda posters, wording of mem­ber­ship require­ments, masks, slogans, martial training and hiking, and other aspects. For example, both groups share the motto: “Join your local Nazis!”
Members of Atom­Waf­fen Division were accused of five murders in 2017 (court cases pending), and a member was convicted in January 2018 of plotting bombing attacks against places including syn­agogues and a nuclear power plant in Miami. Atom­Waf­fen Division states on its website that “The failure of democracy and cap­it­al­ism has given way to the Jewish olig­arch­ies and the globalist bankers resulting in the cultural and racial dis­place­ment of the white race,” and that as “an ideo­lo­gic­al band of comrades, we perform both activism and militant training (hand to hand, arms training, and etc.).”
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance con­nec­tions with the AWD include support from AWD members – for example, one tweeted: “Heil Hitler, and good luck+best wishes from the Atom­waf­fen Division!” (October 2017), and other online com­mu­nic­a­tions between members from the two groups.
WILLIAM LUTHER PIERCE
Graffiti by Anti­podean Res­ist­ance on 25 September 2017 in NSW provides further evidence of the aspir­a­tions of the group. The graffiti was composed of “WLP” (for William Luther Pierce, neo-Nazi leader of the National Alliance in the United States, and author of The Turner Diaries), a Y‑shaped cross (the “Algiz” letter of the runic alphabet, adopted by neo-Nazi and white suprem­acist groups, including Pierce’s National Alliance), and “The Jews are our mis­for­tune” (the trans­la­tion of the motto Die Juden sind unser Ungl�ck!, coined by Heinrich von Treit­sch­ke in the 1880s; this motto always appeared at the bottom of the title page of Der Stuermer, the Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher, from 1923 to 1945, and has been adopted by many neo-Nazis).
The Turner Diaries was first published in 1978, and was written by William Luther Pierce under the pen-name “Andrew Macdonald.” It is a novel composed of the diary of Earl Turner, set in 1991 – 1993. The diary covers the revolu­tion by “The Organ­iz­a­tion,” a neo-Nazi and white suprem­acist group, who wage military war against “The System” – that is, the U.S. gov­ern­ment. The book discusses military actions, including weaponry and bombings, killing and murder, targets, organ­isa­tion, com­mu­nic­a­tion systems, as well as some analysis of American society, and the anti-Jewish and anti-black basis of the ideology. When the vic­tori­ous neo-Nazis – “The Organ­isa­tion” – estab­lishes its first state in part of Cali­for­nia, the Jews are rounded up and killed, the blacks and other non-whites are expelled, and the so-called “race-traitors” are hung in the streets in an event known as the “Day of the Rope” (a term still used today, including by Aus­trali­an far right activists like Blair Cottrell).
The FBI claimed that the book was an inspir­a­tion and the blueprint for the bombing of the FBI headquar­ters in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh, a far-right activist, in 1995, in which 168 people, including 15 children, were killed.
The Turner Diaries provides inspir­a­tion and encour­age­ment for taking up arms and waging terror against Jewish targets, state facil­it­ies and the gov­ern­ment, in order to bring about a National Socialist state devoid of Jews, and other non-European eth­ni­cit­ies.
JAMES MASON
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance, on 16 December 2017, posted on their Twitter account “Read SIEGE by James Mason!” The tweet included a photo of the book, which was signed by Mason, who wrote on the inside cover: “To the Anti­podean Res­ist­ance 88! J Mason 11 – 19-17”. It was later revealed that members of Anti­podean Res­ist­ance had met with Mason.
James Mason is an American neo-Nazi. Between 1980 and 1986, Mason wrote a series of news­let­ters which were even­tu­ally compiled into a 400-plus page book titled Siege. The book was available in both hard copy and online as a PDF.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC):

“Mason and his writings preach the praxis of lead­er­less, cell-struc­tured terrorism and white revolu­tion … Mason began recon­fig­ur­ing his own sustained belief in the need for neo-Nazi terror cells willing to strike at American culture under the control of Jewish influ­ences, which he dubs ‘the System’ … Behind Mason is an entire canon of terrorist doctrine.”

According to ProP­ub­lica:

“For Mason, the way forward was obvious: He no longer wanted to convince the masses of the rightness of Nazism. They would never get it. Now was the time for true believers to go under­ground and launch a clandes­tine guerrilla war aimed at bringing down ‘The System’. ‘Siege’ is essen­tially a long string of essays cel­eb­rat­ing murder and chaos in the name of white supremacy.”

Followers of Mason and Siege are inspired to adopt the tactic of guerrilla warfare and terrorism by cells of highly motivated neo-Nazis in order to attack their enemies, such as Jews, homo­sexu­als, non-white immig­rants, left-wing groups, state facil­it­ies, and to bring down the power struc­tures and the gov­ern­ment.

Membership and geographic spread

Anti­podean Res­ist­ance began in 2016 with a handful of members. In January 2018, the group claimed to have 300 members around Australia. Members are aged in their late teens and twenties. Members are secretive about their iden­tit­ies, con­ceal­ing both names and faces. In photos and videos, members’ heads are covered with the Death’s Head SS mask and an Akubra hat. Any identi­fy­ing marks, such as tattoos, are either non-existent or concealed. Indic­a­tions are that members, at least the earlier members, are more likely to be private school educated – which is to say, from priv­ileged families rather than of working class back­ground.
Two of the several require­ments for mem­ber­ship include: “Race: You must be White to join our organ­isa­tion. No Blacks, Asians, Jews or mixed abom­in­a­tions”; and “No Poofters: We don’t allow homo­sexu­als or other sexual deviants in our organ­isa­tion.”
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance began in Melbourne but has chapters (as they are referred to) in other states. Cities where Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is active include: Adelaide, Ballarat, Bathurst, Bega, Bendigo, Brisbane, Devonport, Gold Coast, Hobart, Launce­st­on, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Toowoomba, Towns­ville and elsewhere. In February 2018, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance formed a women’s branch, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance Women’s Alliance (ARWA).

Group activity

Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members are involved in hiking and camping trips into mountain areas in several states for “bonding”, martial arts training, and planning activ­it­ies. Their favoured mountains and national parks include the Grampians and Wilsons Promon­tory in Victoria, Brisbane Forest Park, Mount Glorious, Mount Beer­bur­rum, and Gold Coast hin­ter­land, in Queens­land, Mount Warning in northern NSW, and elsewhere. In these remote mountain-tops, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members also fly the swastika flags of their own group and that of Nazi Germany, and burn left wing posters they have ripped down and taken.
The Anti­podean Res­ist­ance website, on the homepage, states: “While we engage in other activ­it­ies not mentioned on the website and elsewhere, the main part of what we do is currently postering, stick­er­ing, hiking/camping, martial training, and creating murals.”

Street activity

To date, public activity by Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is restric­ted to putting up posters and stickers in public areas, painting some murals and graffiti in undis­closed venues and, more recently, banners calling for “White Revolu­tion.” The group’s pro­pa­ganda and recruit­ing activity mostly come through posters calling for the execution of Jews, demon­ising Jews as poisoning Aus­trali­an society, blaming Jews for non-white immig­ra­tion, vilifying homo­sexu­als, inciting the killing of homo­sexu­als and urging homo­sexu­als to commit suicide. Some posters use revamped Nazi and Hitler images.
Often, dozens of posters are put up in any given night, and sometimes it has been in the hundreds. Uni­ver­sit­ies have been the most favoured venue for posters by Anti­podean Res­ist­ance. Many of these posters are aimed not only at advert­ising the group’s existence and propagat­ing its beliefs, but also at recruit­ing young Aus­trali­ans to the Nazi cause and to the group.
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance posters fall into three basic cat­egor­ies: anti-Jewish, anti-homo­sexu­al and pro-Nazi. In addition, there have been one-off posters targeting Abori­gines (in colonial-style chains to celebrate Australia Day in 2018 with the text “Happy Invasion Day”), Chinese students (in Mandarin saying they must report to the uni­ver­sity office or be deported from Australia), and Turnbull and Shorten (for allowing non-white immig­rants into Australia, after an Afghan ran over people in his car). Another poster “dreamt” of a “White Christmas” with images of a Jew, African and Chinese crossed out.
The first pro­pa­ganda action by Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members occurred on 9 October 2016 in Melbourne with posters showing the shooting of a gay man, and the text “Get the Sodomite filth off our streets.” This was incite­ment to violence. It was soon followed by the first racist poster “Stop the Hordes” on 3 December 2016 in Melbourne, against non-white immig­ra­tion using the racist terms “duneskins, shitskins, niggers, chinks”; at the top of the poster was the hand that was behind non-white immig­ra­tion and that hand was iden­ti­fied as “the Jew” by the Star of David. On 13 February 2017, the group was armed with two new posters “Reject Jewish Poison,” with Der Stuermer style image of a ste­reo­typ­ic­al Jew, and “National Socialism or Nothing.”
To celebrate Hitler’s birthday on 20 April (often des­ig­nated as “420” by neo-Nazis) in 2017, the group went all out. Two new antisemitic posters reading “Legalise the Execution of Jews” and “420 Blaze It” (referring to the crem­at­ori­um that burnt the bodies of murdered Jews in the Nazi death camps) and a new pro-Nazi poster reading “420 Raise It” (raise the Nazi salute). The “Execute Jews” poster was composed of a photo taken at Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in July 1941, of a Jew about to be shot by a Nazi. Anti­podean Res­ist­ance had super-imposed its SS Death’s Head mask and Akubra hat onto the Nazi in the photo, and a cartoon-style image of a ste­reo­typ­ic­al Jewish head onto the Jew.
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance has also put up thousands of stickers around the four eastern states and in South Australia. There are five forms of stickers, three with swastikas. Stickers are the easiest pro­pa­ganda material to put up, and can be done quickly without being noticed, hence stickers being a favoured means of pro­pa­ganda.
Murals have been produced which are pre­dom­in­antly composed of text, for example, with the words “Adolf Hitler,” “Anti­podean Res­ist­ance,” “AR” and “Revolt!” One mural created for Inter­na­tion­al Holocaust Remem­brance Day in 2018 was composed of the words “Ha Ha Happy Holocaust,” with painted images of Jewish grave­stones.
Graffiti is much less utilised. However, graffiti in Sydney in 2017 was composed of the symbol of the Algiz rune, the initials “WLP” (for William Luther Pierce) and the motto “The Jews are our mis­for­tune.” Two other pieces of graffiti were simply of the name of the group. There is also a stencil graffiti of a swastika and the group’s name. In addition, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance van­dal­ised a tree when members carved a large swastika and the letters “AR” into a tree trunk.

Online activity

Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members had a presence and then a sub-forum on the Iron March web-forum from February 2016 until Iron March became defunct in November 2017. This is where Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members met online with other neo-Nazis based overseas. An example of Anti­podean Res­ist­ance activity on the Iron March forum, which shows its members’ antisemitism and desire to commit murder, is the posting (on 8 June 2017) of an altered image of a photo taken on 19 April 1945, after the lib­er­a­tion of Bergen-Belsen con­cen­tra­tion camp, of a British soldier using a bulldozer to push the bodies of the dead into a mass grave. In the photo, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance replaced the soldier’s head with the iconic Anti­podean Res­ist­ance SS Death’s Head mask and hat; the words “Anti­podean Res­ist­ance” are written with an arrow pointing to the soldier, and wrote the words “Aus­trali­an Jewry” with an arrow pointing to the dead prisoners. The altered image shows that Anti­podean Res­ist­ance aspire to murdering Aus­trali­an Jews on a massive scale.
Anti­podean Res­ist­ance estab­lished its website in November 2016. This is used pre­dom­in­antly as the public face of the group, and to post and publicise their monthly Action Reports and other articles. An image posted on the website in the August 2017 Action Report is a photo of Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members in the mountains with the added text, “It’s not about the Jews you gas, but the friends you make on the way.”
A Twitter account was set up in February 2017 but was closed by Twitter in a crackdown on hate sites in December 2017. Aware of the prob­ab­il­ity of the ban, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance set up an account on Gab, a Twitter-like medium, in November 2017. The Twitter and Gab accounts were/are used to parade their posters and stickers, and to link to new items on the website and to Youtube videos. Anti­podean Res­ist­ance members have made several short videos, mostly of their hiking trips into the mountains, but also of some posters in Brisbane and Ballarat. They have their own Youtube channel, set up in August 2017, but most of their videos are posted elsewhere on Youtube, bitchute, and vidme.
To obtain donations to support its activ­it­ies, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance set up an account with Hatreon in November 2017, but when that site became non-func­tion­ing, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance switched to Maker­Sup­port and set up an account in March 2018.

Responses to Antipodean Resistance

The Jewish community, notably through the Executive Council of Aus­trali­an Jewry (ECAJ), the peak national body rep­res­ent­ing the Jewish community in Australia, has closely monitored Anti­podean Res­ist­ance since October 2016. The annual ECAJ Report on Antisemitism in Australia in 2017 prom­in­ently featured Anti­podean Res­ist­ance in the report’s chapter on organ­isa­tions.
The main­stream media has shown some interest in Anti­podean Res­ist­ance activ­it­ies, espe­cially the homo­phobic posters, initially and then during the same-sex marriage debate in 2017. The one anti-Chinese student poster received high levels of publicity. Main­stream media coverage of antisemitic pro­pa­ganda, including the poster demanding to legalise the execution of Jews, has been notice­ably minimal. However, in 2018 the antisemitic and homo­phobic posters were given prom­in­ence in several articles and radio inter­views, notably in relation to the campaign led by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies to make Section 20D (incite­ment to violence) of the NSW Anti-Dis­crim­in­a­tion Act work effect­ively.
Gov­ern­ments, federal and state, while not sup­port­ive of any aspect of Anti­podean Res­ist­ance, have been slow to condemn the group and its activ­it­ies, and slow in recog­nising the dangers the group poses. Aus­trali­a’s intel­li­gence and law enforce­ment agencies are also mon­it­or­ing Anti­podean Res­ist­ance very closely, according to media reports. Some left wing and anarchist groups have also been mon­it­or­ing Anti­podean Res­ist­ance activ­it­ies. Andy Fleming has been par­tic­u­larly vigilant in gathering inform­a­tion to expose the members of the group.

Threat level

At this stage, Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is a serious concern rather than a solid threat to the safety and security of Jews, homo­sexu­als and non-white immig­rants. However, it remains to be seen what direction Anti­podean Res­ist­ance will take in their future activ­it­ies. As the mem­ber­ship base and geo­graph­ic spread of the group has been steadily growing since the group was formed in Melbourne in October 2016, increas­ing numbers of posters and stickers can be expected.
However, the real danger of Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is not in its vile and genocidal pro­pa­ganda, espe­cially against Jews and homo­sexu­als, or its targeting of innocent Aus­trali­an youth as recruits. The real danger is in its propensity for violence as seen in its pro­pa­ganda, its con­nec­tions overseas to pro­scribed terrorist groups and in the pub­lic­a­tions it promotes. All of these espouse violence, including murder and terrorism.
It is imper­at­ive that those within Anti­podean Res­ist­ance who incite violence, murder and genocide be pro­sec­uted to the full extent of the law. If existing legis­la­tion is inad­equate to sustain such pro­sec­u­tions, then the law urgently needs to be strengthened.
If Anti­podean Res­ist­ance is allowed to flourish and act, it will not only be Jews, homo­sexu­als and non-white immig­rants who are adversely affected. Hatred and violence against targeted groups cannot be neatly isolated or quar­ant­ined. All Aus­trali­ans would even­tu­ally suffer when our country becomes fractured, bruised and bloody.
Julie Nathan is the Research Officer for the Executive Council of Aus­trali­an Jewry and the author of its annual Report on Antisemitism in Australia.