Z600 Part 1
Meet the Australian Influencers Who Doxxed 600 Jewish Creatives
Four months ago on a sticky New York City Saturday, I found myself in Greenwich Village at a dark underground bar. I had impulsively decided to meet an acquaintance for overpriced cocktails before leaving the city on the last train back to Philly. Over the last year, my drinking companion and I had built a relationship around a mutual and rabid interest in mapping the money, career trails, social media posts, and familial ties of the networks of people and organizations that encompass the creative and humanitarian 501c3 nonprofit world.
If you would have asked me 10 months prior if I had anticipated cosplaying an episode of Veronica Mars at a drinking establishment marketed to the yuppie banking crowd I would have probably asked what damage had occurred in my prefrontal cortex. However, I am not the same person I was prior to October 7th 2023, and my bar companion–a gay Texan with serious fundamentalist Christianity baggage was a stark reminder of my strange transformation from fringe “barely-making-it” professional artist to fringe hobbyist investigative journalist.
Bobby and I had first met while tracking who was connected to a document titled the Z600. Z was for Zio, slur for the already tarred and feathered word Zionist. And six hundred, was the number of doxxed Australian Jews that made up the contents of the viral social media driven mass leaked csv file.
The Source of the Leak
On January 31st, 2024, a spreadsheet mysteriously and ominously appeared in hyper-online corners of the web containing 600 full names, home addresses, workplaces, chat and conversation history, and approximately 100 photographs of alleged members of everyone connected to a Whatsapp group in Australia.
The J.E.W.I.S.H. Australian Creatives and Academics, was a WhatsApp group that connected Jewish creatives together from across the country to bond over their collective fears about the future of antisemitism in Australia. The chat also facilitated various activities to resist the encroaching threat of violent Jew hatred. These actions included letter writing campaigns regarding various public figures who had taken vocal antisemitic stances and the organization of public rallies. The chat forum was supposed to be a private space, and they trusted that fellow members of the group would respect the confidential nature of their conversations. Therefore, it was jarring when the WhatsApp members’ chat histories and home addresses were unabashedly shared far and wide on social media via a bit.ly link.
In many ways I have used the cultural and societal unrest in places like Canada, the UK, and Australia to predict the future of Jew hatred and political polarization in the United States. All of us are connected by our shared language and histories–but Australia in particular felt like a parallel universe to America.
Australia was a sister nation to the United States, encompassing a large continent surrounded by long coasts and dramatic and diverse topography, with it’s own history of indigenous ethnic cleansing and genocide, created out of the same remnants of decaying empire. And just like America, Australia had land acknowledgements in schools, a shared culture of shame around colonialism, its own history of white supremacist political networks and far-left groups, and a unique story of mass immigration. The country took pride in its diverse nature–much like the United States loves to brag about its own history of being a cultural melting pot of many languages, ethnicities, and races.
I was fascinated by the plight of Jews in a country halfway around the world from where I was living because the Jew-hatred in Australia was out of control even prior to October 7th. And, there was one account in particular that held my attention above the rest: an Instagram page called “Little Star the Label” run by a woman known as Thalia who called herself “the antisemitism oracle.” Thaila had developed a following around her scarily accurate predictions about the shape shifting tendencies and metastasizing nature of the new Jew-hate movement in her home nation of Australia—and beyond.
In January of 2024 prior to the official leak, Thaila started to look more haggard than before. She was a Mizrahi Jew (Mizrahis– are Jews originally from Middle Eastern nations including Jews who never left Israel) with beautiful large dark heavy set eyes. As the months after October 7th became more unbearable her eyes started to look deeper and darker like tiny voids. It was obvious that she was becoming worn down by the online vitriol and offline hate.
One of the last videos she posted prior to the release of the Z600 csv doc warned us (her audience) about a “list” teased on certain anti-Zionist Australian social media accounts. This was clearly supposed to be a threat lobbed against her and fellow Jewish Australian artists.
Lists of Jews are nothing new. Just ask Hitler and the Third Reich, or the religious fanatics of the Spanish Inquisition. So, what struck me initially about the idea of a “Jew list” was the banality of it. However, the other emotion that took hold of me was the distinct certainty that this was not a hollow threat. This document more than likely existed, which historically is a bad omen, as nothing good has ever come out of “lists of Zionists.”
One of the other unique qualities of Australia was the history of its Jewish population. Australia has the second largest percentage of Jews who are direct descendants of Holocaust survivors in the world. The Oceanic nation accepted the most Jewish refugees after WW2 outside of the Jewish nation itself. Jewish Australians, much like their counterparts in the United States, were eager to integrate themselves into their new home country and become economic and cultural success stories in the process.
With their new status and societal influence, many of these new Australians established cultural organizations, and donated large sums of money to grants and institutes in the arts. Little did these “new money” success stories know that one day these same institutes and non-profit organizations would be used by antisemites to fund hate campaigns against their descendants.
So, I already had a strange connection to the Jews of Australia–because I felt that our paths were intertwined. And in some ways I was right. Unbeknownst to me at the time of the leak, it was a journalist working for The New York Times who had created the original Z600 list. The journalist’s name was Natasha Frost and most of her history has been scrubbed from the internet.
I think I will always remember where I was when I got the news about Frost and her lack of journalistic integrity. It was mid-August and I was on “vacation” and supposedly “off-the-grid” in the bread aisle of a Meijer Supermarket chain in the middle of nowhere Indiana. I distinctly remember shouting “fuck!” slack-jawed as I stared at the Wall Street Journal headline sent to me via Signal–an encrypted messaging app.
My Greenwich Village buddy and I were no longer talking. I had gotten used to long pauses in our chat history but this was different. Bobby had gone AWOL. And while at the beginning of our correspondence I could verify and trust his sources, by the end everything had been corrupted by the occult and his unhealthy obsession with the end times.
Even though Bobby has appeared to have gone off the rails, I will forever be grateful for his help. And Bobby is far from the only person involved in this wild and ongoing tale of social media influencers, religious and political corruption, sketchy arts grants and funding sources, and of course terrorist organizations and leaders masking as humanitarian advisors and activists.
This is the story of the leak of the Z600. And the fall out that has been rippling across the world ever since.
Main Character Syndrome
Frost initially gained access to the WhatsApp group by deceiving its moderators, and she left just as quickly as she had joined. In January 2024 Frost was to author a story about the sacking of fellow journalist Antoinette Lattouf from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Lattouf had been discussed by members of the forum on multiple occasions. And, the WhatsApp members had formed a letter writing campaign asking ABC to consider disciplinary actions against Lattouf for her vocal and controversial reporting on antisemitism in Australia. Prior to Frost’s article on the Lattouf-ABC scandal, Frost contacted the group’s administrator and stated she would be leaving the chat due to her upcoming New York Times piece so that she could maintain her journalistic neutrality and protect the privacy of the WhatsApp chat members.
However Frost did not protect the privacy of the group members, instead she downloaded the full chat transcript (900 pages in total) and shared it with ‘one person.’ That one person appeared to be Antoinette Lattouf herself.
Lattouf, had garnered an outsized public reputation because of her post-October 7th Jew-hate skeptical social media posts. Adding fuel to the fire, she would weaponize these gifted chat receipts in her wrongful termination suit against her former employer, but not before covertly sharing the leaked transcript with a wider audience.
On October 8th, 2023 the Sydney Opera House was illuminated in blue and white lights-the colors of the Israeli flag. This light display was supposed to showcase Australia's solidarity with the people of Israel after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In video footage dated the 8th, protestors can be seen and heard outside the Opera House chanting “Gas the Jews.” This snippet of film was so incendiary that it was covered internationally by major news outlets in America, Australia, and the UK.
Police and members of the Australian media have since disputed this claim, saying that it wasn’t “Gas the Jews” but “Where's the Jews” that was chanted that day. Antoinette Lattouf was one of the people who was the most vocal and instrumental in insisting “Gas the Jews” was a fabrication.
Lattouf made her opinions known on other issues connected to the Israel-Hamas war as well, most notably, her disgust with the investigative article “Screams Without Words.” This New York Times piece documented the systemic nature of sexual violence inflicted on Jewish women by Hamas terrorists on the 7th of October 2023.
Since Lattouf’s personal opinions on the conflict started to overshadow her public persona as a journalist, she was fired by ABC in early December–a month before the leak of the mass doxx list.
On December 21st, 2023 former journalist, ex-ABC employee, and “mommy blogger” Lauren Dubois created a GoFundMe campaign on Lattouf’s behalf. Ms Dubois markets herself as a guru for moms. Dubois’s social media presence consists of content where she lightly documents her life, her kids, her outfits, and her outrage at Zionists.
Predictably, Dubois’s social media posts have veered into the lane of “antisemitic” with her use of the word “Zionist” as a pejorative. And, as I can attest through my research into her digital footprint, I have found her videos on Neo-Nazi telegram channels like “Jews.com.au.” Sharing Ms. Dubois’s telegram Nazi debut with my Greenwich Village drinking companion was in fact how I had initially gained Bobby’s trust.
Following up on the GoFundMe campaign driven by Lauren Dubois, other Australian social media personalities also started expressing their solidarity with the disgraced former ABC journalist. The most prominent advocates on behalf of Lattouf included ‘shock jock’ feminist writer Clementine Ford, Big Brother Australia season 5 contestant and online influencer Constance Hall, and activist and artist Matt Chun.
While I had initially written off most of these people as spineless moral cowards with serious interpersonal narcissism issues, certain individuals were less superficial than initially met the eye. That is to say there were deeper darker connections to shadowy organizations and figures than I had given any of these Australian bobble-heads credit for.
Islamist groups do love brainless leftists with large social media presences, and our 4 intrepid faux-artists-cum-activists had everything master manipulators look for; a hunger for even more fame and notoriety, loyal fan bases on prominent platforms, a thirst for perceived political influence and power, and complicated and controversial backstories they were trying to shift focus away from.
All four of our pseudo celebrity friends shared the Z600 document with what I can only describe as jubilantly cruel glee. And none of them appeared to have any regrets about destroying their fellow Australian citizens lives—including the lives of the leaked list victims’ children.
But who are these people anyway? What controversial histories are they trying to hide? How are these characters involved in larger non-profit and terror ecosystems? And most importantly what does this have to do with antisemitism in the West as a whole?
Stay tuned. More to come.