Z600 Part 2
A Sequel.
Hello—I netted quite a few new subscribers from my piece for FAIR, so this will probably be the first introduction to the weirder corner of my Substack. If you haven’t read the Z600 Part 1, which I suggest you do prior to part 2, read it here.
It’s 3 am on a Sunday morning and Party People by Vince Staples is blasting through my headphones.
Move your body if you came here to party
If not then pardon me.
How am I supposed to have a good time when death and destruction is all I see?
There is a cloud of marijuana smoke surrounding the blue light emanating from my laptop. I have about 20 tabs open and am flanked on either side of my studio drawing table by half-drunk cups of black tea and two sleeping cats.
Hunched over my desk in the dim late night glow of a screen is how I spent every weekend from February 2024 until June 2024. There was a toxic nature to living this way and I knew it, but I was also addicted to piecing together a mystery.
I used the weed to take the edge off of reading about the history and modern associations of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-or PFLP. Hamas may be the more well known of the two groups, but the PFLP has made the most inroads on university campuses and in polite arts circles in Western society. It had greatly disturbed me during my brief foray into researching the links between terrorist organizations and academia that what I was seeing online was starting to leach into my world offline.
The reason the PFLP is so popular among the humanities and social sciences graduate degree crowd is because its message can be coded as “marxist-socialist resistance” from oppression. But in reality, or the world most members of the academy do not live in, the PFLP is an Islamist terror network with historical ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that uses the mask of socialism to dupe Western leftists into assisting them in their ultimately imperialist and religiously fundamentalist goals.
I had Vince Staples and King Von1 on replay–the aggressive music of inner city Long Beach and South Chicago, to make myself braver as I lurked on some of the most inflammatory websites on the internet. The trap-rap was like musical armor that I used to cope with encountering the worst of what the world wide web had to offer, where the ideologies of Neo-Nazism meet the celebration of Islamist terror and Commie-tankie fervor.
Lastly, I used the caffeine to keep myself awake through reading hundreds of pages of arts and academic non-profit tax receipts called form 990s, and manically switching tabs between the propaganda masked as journalism of Mondoweiss, Al Jazeera, and The Electronic Intifada.
I usually started to tap out around 4 am, when I finally would get around to compiling who was being awarded the arts grants of the Australian based Meyer Foundation and Create New South Wales. This part bored me the most–if you asked me to choose between reading pages of legal and tax jargon of shady non-profits via Influence Watch, Open Secrets, or NGO Monitor versus reading terrible poetry in the literary journal “Kill Your Darlings” or the individual rants and ravings of activists pretending to be artists, I would always pick the former activity. However, following who was getting pivotal grant money and arts awards was essential in mapping where that money was coming from and where it was going to. Always, as they say, “follow the money.”
You may be asking yourself, why was I doing this? I have a day job, two cat children, a loving husband…this is not a normal person activity. And you would be correct. But since last February, I have become a woman possessed.
I am a Jewish artist, and while things are hard for Jews everywhere right now, Jews in the creative industries face our own unique problems. I would argue we have been at the forefront of Jew hatred for the better part of a decade, where antisemitism in the arts masked as anti-Zionism has been given a free pass to run rampant. A leaked list of doxxed Jewish artists, even if it was in a country halfway around the world, hit a little close to home for me.
I also knew in the back of my brain that I was using the all-night google searches to keep myself from lingering too long on my own pain. The pain of lost friendships, spiritual betrayal, lost opportunities and the impending doom that history was starting to repeat itself. If I could just find out who was behind the leak of the list, I could stop the cyclical nature of geopolitical violence, I could vindicate myself and make former friends see that antisemitism is real.
I was using magical thinking in order to cling to facets of my personal history that I was not ready to let go of. But I also derived a sick enjoyment out of throwing myself into the deepest darkest corners of the internet every night.
Call it a duality in my personality, or a resistance to enjoying polite society, but once you've witnessed real violence or grown up on the rougher side of the human experience, sometimes having a normal job and a quiet existence isn’t enough. It was thrilling to dive into the dark dangerous alleys of Terrorgram and 4Chan/pol/.
I rationalized that If I exposed myself to the bottom of the barrel of humanity there was nothing that could touch me anymore. Sure, I was up in the wee hours of October 7th when Hamas started live streaming the killing and raping of Isrealis–I had an online front row seat to the unending violence of that day. But, this was different. Now, I was driving, I was controlling what I saw, or so I naively thought.
I may not have been able to get my friends back, or been capable of solving the Israel-Palestine conflict, but I was discovering that I had incredible mental fortitude, so I kept going. But with time, the things I was finding were starting to complicate a narrative I initially assumed was cut and dry: a list had been leaked, our four bumbling Australian social media stars had shared it, end of story…so why was I on Terrorgram after 6 months of research? The closer I got to the answers the murkier and denser the story became.
Mommy Dearest
Lauren Dubois looks like the living breathing embodiment of a Good Housekeeping Magazine cover. Dubois likes to remind her audience that she used to be a journalist, and papering the first page of Dubois's blog are images of her glitzed up for the camera, grinning from ear to ear, and sticking an over-sized microphone in the faces of various foreign diplomats and Australian politicians. It isn’t until you scroll to the bottom of her homepage that you realize Dubois is a mommy blogger and the title of her website, “The Thud” is a reference to one of her children.
For someone so keen on bragging about their previous media career, it was hard to find anything written by Ms. Dubois from her journalism days online. One of the only fragments of proof that Dubois worked in journalism at all, is a 2012 Australian federal press gallery list that was produced by an Australian investigative left of center news outlet called No Fibs.
Ms. Dubois is careful to never use the real names of her children or husband on her blog, but does post their photos on social media in order to market her personal brand. In the past, Dubois has been asked for comment on her decisions to keep her family life private even in the public eye of social media, saying in a 2022 article for Canberra daily:
“Most parents do approach with some caution, and some don’t… How I approach, like most parents, is the need to consider two separate things – their safety and their privacy.”
And additionally pulled from the article:
“Lauren says protecting your child’s safety involves avoiding sharing details about their lives that could potentially put them in danger – their school, sports teams, location, and potentially, their names.”
Reading this initially stunned me because of Ms. Dubois’s clear cognitive dissonance. But then again we are all hypocrites to some degree or another, in Lauren’s case it was the fact that she clearly saw the dangers of oversharing information about her own family online but had no issues sharing information jeopardizing the safety of other people’s families. Because, In January of 2024, Ms Dubois shared the Z600 doxx list as a bit.ly link with her 188,000 instagram followers.
On the outside, Dubois seems to have a Hallmark card family and marriage. Everything is as staged as the old photos she shares from her press gallery days, with curated outfit choices, manicured temper tantrum free children, airbrushed makeup, blown out hair, and a husband who looks like he walked off an ad campaign for LL Bean.
While Ms. Dubois is careful not to use her husband’s name online, he is dubbed “Sarge” in her blog posts–a nod to his Australian military service. In fact, Ms Dubois’s husband served in the Australian military during one of its most fraught times: the war in Afghanistan. And her husband’s unit may also have been one of the Australian military groups responsible for some of the most reprehensible war crimes.
The regiment in question was called the “SAS” or Special Air Service–a special forces unit of the Australian military. In a piece for Mamamia titled, “To our ANZACs, thank you will never be enough” Ms. Dubois had this to say regarding her husband’s service:
“They’re the ones who are haunted by sights, sounds and smells that we will never know. They’ve driven down dirt roads in the Middle East, not knowing which direction they could be hit from. Knowing that each metre of ground crossed, brings new threat from below.
They’ve faced kids, the age of their own children, who’ve turned weapons on them. Tiny faces that haunt them.”
Around the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war a bigger report about Australian military misconduct in Afghanistan was set to be released. This was also when Ms. Dubois started her advocacy work on behalf of “Palestinian children murdered in cold blood by the IOF” or “Israeli Offensive Forces” which is what anti-Zionist activists like Dubois call the IDF.
One has to wonder if the timing is any coincidence. However speculation aside, Dubois doesn’t need a dark backstory to make anything she has done in the last year less vile. As Ms. Dubois is the only one of the four “creatives” I have found on the Neo-Nazi telegram channel Jews.com.au (so far).
The Social Media Soap Opera Star
The unfortunate reality is that Ms. Dubois is far from the only social media personality to profit from the war in Gaza. Plenty of internet talking heads are willing to yell into their cameras on Tik Tok and write long screeds on outlets like Substack about “Zionist” oppression for the likes, the clicks, and the money. No crying Palestinian children are needed to garner outsized outrage about the Jews.
Constance Hall is another fellow traveler in the world of Australian Influencer turned anti-Zionist activist content creator. And just like her colleague Ms. Dubois, Ms. Hall was infamous for her thirst for fame prior to sharing the Z600 list with her 380,000 follower strong Instagram audience.
In 2005, Ms. Hall was a contestant on the 5th season of Big Brother Australia. Hall got her first taste of notoriety during her brief time on the reality television show, causing a small tabloid scandal in the process. Hall divulged on air that she had lied about her relationship status in order to score a coveted role, which is a strange thing to admit on a program that boasts about having contestants compete under the constant surveillance of hidden cameras.
In the years that have followed it’s clear that Hall doesn’t have much of a filter. In a 2016 viral tweet that famously caught the attention of Whoopi Goldberg, Hall muses:
“We had “parent sex” yesterday. You know what parent sex is, it’s that 3.5 minutes you get in between changing nappies and making food.”
Like most of Hall’s “work” over the past twenty years, the reaction to the queasy parental quickie post was a mixture of fawning “you-go-girl” awe mixed with disgust and finger wagging about Hall’s “bad parenting.”
In a 2019 Ted Talk on bullying, Hall focused on her history of being the center of online driven hate campaigns. Hall talks at great length on the toll that internet bullying has had on her mental health, revealing that at one point, she had become suicidal from the viciousness of the abuse. Hall additionally revealed that the organized online bullying also involved doxxing. At one point, Hall had posters of herself plastered around her hometown with the slogan “Vote for Constance Hall as the Number 1 Shit Mother of the Year.”
Hall wanted to use the Ted Talk and her larger online platform to shed light on the emotional toll that social media driven abuse can have on its victims, saying quote:
“Telling anybody to ignore being systematically abused everyday by thousands of people is like telling a child who is being kicked in the face everyday on her way to school to ignore it. You don’t have any place advising anyone on anything let alone these major personal safety issues”
And additionally on the role we are setting for our children online:
“What are we expecting of these kids? Youths don’t always do as we say they imitate us and our behavior online and that tells them what is ok and that tells them how you can treat people.”
Once again, cognitive dissonance is a bitch. Who could have foreseen a mere five years after her iconic Ted Talk performance that Ms. Hall would be jubilantly sharing a doxx list of 600 Jewish Australians?
It is possible that Hall was using her sudden activism around the Israel-Hamas war as a distraction from legal woes. In May of 2023 after a very public lawsuit, Hall was forced to pay 15,000 dollars to the creators of her now-defunct website: Queens of Constance. While not Hall’s first lawsuit rodeo, this recent legal battle has proven to be one of her most high profile and financially destabilizing court cases.
However small hiccups can lead to bigger and better opportunities. In October 2023, shortly after October 7th, Hall announced a new Podcast venture called “To Be Frank.” Lauren Dubois, who Hall hailed as an unapologetic pro-Palestinian advocate with a prestigious media career past, was one of her first guests.
The Bullshit Artist
Matt Chun born Matt Jones is an Australian artist and activist who has received over 100,000 dollars since 2010 from various arts grants and Australian government funding for his art and writing. While Chun has benefited significantly from the Australian government and the generous donations of dead Australian Jewish refugees to fund his work, Chun appears to hate his country with a disturbing amount of zeal.
In addition to wanting Australia to burn to the ground, Chun predictably hates all “settler-colonial states” which unsurprisingly includes Israel. Chun has taken to demonstrating his hatred of Australia and other countries he has deemed settler colonial entities in his writing style. Chun likes to write the names of countries he has selected as being uniquely deplorable with slash marks through their monikers, as if the entire country or continent has been deleted and thoroughly wiped from the map.
Chun’s activism has at times veered into the realm of antisemitism as he has dived deeper and deeper into probing the Zionist roots of all the grant money he has been awarded over the past fifteen years. In addition to doing deep dives on the nefarious family connections of arts organizations and their relationship to the Jewish State, Chun was also one of the main antagonizers at the center of the Z600 leak.
Chun has netted many grants from Australian arts foundations with Jewish roots, like the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund, which works in partnership with the Meyer Foundation–both organizations named after prominent Jewish Australians. Through these two orgs Chun was given a share of a 187,000 dollar government grant.
Chun has recently gone after another arts org with Jewish Australian roots on his 4 am substack–the Besen Foundation, who has made large donations to the Tarrawarra Museum of Art.
The Besen Foundation has been the focus of Chun’s ire because the Besen family has visited Israel and has historical ties and relationships with famous Israeli politicians like David Ben-Gurion. Such a crime of connection has motivated Chun to declare that all artists should reject the Besen foundation as a source of funding.
In addition to the Besen Foundation, Matt Chun would also like you to fully and unequivocally reject the Schwartz and Gandel foundations for roughly the same crimes of being non-profit arts organizations created by generous donations from Australian Jewish families.
Chun also seems very on board with terrorism. Chun writes about armed resistance the same way some people write about sex–with what I imagine is a constant hard on.
Most of Chun’s writing has the feel and flow of a person frothing at the mouth with the same genocidal intent of fellow mediocre artist Adolf Hitler, but with a much more limited intellect. His “4 am Substack” has the emotional maturity of the proto-social justice word vomit I was reading on Tumblr in the early 2010s. Which is just another way of saying Chun’s activism has as much authenticity as an ivy league student wearing a 25 dollar Che Guevara t-shirt they bought at Target.
His recent artworks have been filled with charming images and platitudes like the “Zionists Eat Shit” stickers he created in early March, or the soft watercolor paintings he has made of burning Australian flags. Groundbreaking.
Chun hates the cops and the troops, he has a project called “unmonumental” where he destroys the statues of Australia’s colonial leaders in an online cyberverse and replaces them with aboriginal and native symbols (I watched the Youtube lecture, it's very very boring). Chun wants Australians to riot and for the country to be thoroughly decolonized, but just like his revolutionary idols, Chun is not a member of the oppressed classes he claims to care so much about. In fact, Chun lives in a posh coastal beachside community.
The Tangerine Flavored Faux Feminist
Clementine Ford is the living breathing caricature of what misogynists think feminists look and sound like. An acid blonde ball of unfiltered forever online rage that uses social media as a weapon, Ford has built an audience around anger at men. This misandrist marketing angle has netted Ford book deals, a podcast, and speaking engagements across Australia.
In a 2017 special titled “Hate Male” Clementine Ford attempted to use comedy to name and shame men who had hurled online vitriol at her on social media platforms. Clips from “Hate Male” have been re-shared and celebrated by other Australian activists who view Ms. Ford as a role model–including antisemitic partner in crime Constance Hall.
I watched “Hate Male” to get a feel for Ford’s demeanor and temperament when it comes to mocking her online detractors. In the special, Ford is standing on stage in front of a large white projector where screenshots of comments, emails and messages sent by angry men are flashed onto the screen. She brags about getting her tormentors fired from their jobs and destroying their lives to a crowd of thousands at the Sydney Opera House.
During the special Ford said the following:
“Humor for me has been the best disinfectant against this kind of toxic bilge. Because like Margaret Atwood said, these men hate being laughed at. If you give them your earnestness if you try and engage with them…I mean there are some people you can engage with and some you can hope to educate but they are the people who want rational dialogue with you in the first place.
These people are not interested in rational dialogue. These people are interested in doing what has been done to women for thousands of years which is degrading us and humiliating us and threatening to defile us in an attempt to silence us, in an attempt to buy and believe the lie that we, not only do we not have power, but that we don’t deserve power, that we don’t deserve to be treated like equal human beings in this world, that we don’t deserve to have a role in shaping this world or in deciding what the conversation of this world will be.”
In a 2020 twitter post, Ford wished “more men died of Covid-19.” Recently, Ford who shares the same publisher as Lauren Dubois, Allen & Unwin, has been on a book tour for her screed against marriage titled “I Don’t: An Inarguable Case Against Marriage.”
Given Ford’s hatred of male violence, rape culture, and female subjugation, it was surprising that she would become one of the loudest voices on the pro-Palestinion left screaming for evidence that Isreali women had been raped on the seventh of October 2023. Ford has since pivoted her social media content from “fuck men” to “fuck Zionists.” In addition to her October 7th truther posts and sympathy for Hamas and Yahya Sinwar, Ford was also the first large Instagram account to share the Z600 doxx list.
How could a woman who seemed so deeply entrenched in the ideology of “Believe All Women” become such a huge hypocrite when it comes to Jewish women and systemic rape as a war crime? Peel back the layers of Ford’s childhood and family connections and a larger picture emerges of a grifter and megalomaniac narcissist with daddy issues.
Ford spent most of her childhood in Oman, a country on the Southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Ford’s father Steven Ford worked in the oil and gas industry which took the family to many international locations. Clementine Ford and her parents would return to Australia when Clementine was a teenager and her father Steven would take a job at the American based Weatherford Drilling International as the country manager for Australia from 2008 to 2023.
Segue-Weatherford
Weatherford International is not a company I was familiar with until I started researching the Z600 list–however I think it’s important to go into detail about what Weatherford is, who their associates are, and what influence they have over international markets and politics.
Weatherford’s main headquarters is in Houston Texas but has operations across oil and gas producing regions of the globe spanning 75 different countries. In 2007 the company was implicated in the oil-for-food program in Iraq. The oil-for-food program was established by the Saddam Hussein regime to help Iraq sell oil to buy humanitarian supplies while it was otherwise under U.N. sanctions due to its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
But Weatherford’s involvement with Saddam Hussein is just the tip of the iceberg. Weatherford has been caught red handed on multiple occasions of violating international sanctions and colluding with despots and totalitarian regimes. Precision Drilling de Venezuela and P.D. Drilling Holdings Inc., two subsidiaries of Weatherford Drilling International, are featured extensively in a leaked set of over 13.4 million confidential electronic documents related to offshore investments called the Paradise Papers.
In 2013 Weatherford International Ltd. paid 91 million dollars to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the largest ever settlement at the time outside of the banking industry for violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran, Sudan, and Cuba. In February of this year the Irish division of Weatherford was officially added to the list of sponsors of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Weatherford's partner in Russia is the oil company Rosneft, which is controlled by the Russian government. Rosneft is the third-largest Russian Company and the second-largest state-controlled company in Russia in terms of revenue.
A shareholder linked to Rosneft recently replaced one of the original founding shareholders of a crypto exchange network called Garantex. Garantex was sanctioned in 2022 by the United States government for willfully disregarding money laundering and aiding and abetting in financing terrorism. The investigation by the US Department of the Treasury concluded that the crypto exchange was used and abused by illicit actors like Hamas, Hezbollah, and drug gangs in Russia and Ukraine.
Now Back to our Fearless Feminist Orange Fraud
Clementine Ford’s father Steven Ford isn’t just a man in bed with a corrupt internationally influential corporation, but he is also an aspiring politician. In 2017 Steven Ford ran on the One Nation party ticket–a conservative nativist political party in Australia for a provincial post in Queensland. Clementine Ford told the Daily Mail that while her and her father are close even with their opposing political views she is committed to the full destruction of the One Nation party.
It’s clear that Clementine Ford is a person who picks and chooses what people and groups are good and bad based on emotional whims and the ebb and flow of popular culture. In addition, I’m sure growing up in the Middle East also played a huge role in Ford’s polarizing opinions on Jews and Zionism.
It’s also interesting to me that Clementine has been an outspoken advocate for Gazans, posting brutal images of dead Palestinian children on her Instagram page, which are interspersed with sponsored advertisements. Clementine shills for mattress companies, sex toy manufacturers, and facial rejuvenation procedures in between her activism on behalf of Palestine.
Even though Ford seems passionate about human rights abuses, she has said nothing about human rights violations in Ukraine, China, Sudan, or any other countries outside of Israel. Ford even admonished feminists in her home country for caring more about a mass stabbing attack motivated by violent sexism at a Sydney shopping center than Palestine, wagging her finger that women’s issues at home are less important than the war in Gaza.
Some people I have worked with have suspected that Ford’s silence on human rights abuses outside of Israel-Palestine may have something to do with her father’s career path, and the outsized influence of a company as powerful as Weatherford; but I think it’s a lot simpler than international dark money and blackmail.
Clementine Ford, like the rest of her Z600 leaking cohort, has just realized it’s easier to gain traction, attention, and sponsorships from peddling the pro Palestinian cause. The leak of the Z600 list and the publicity that followed granted every single one of our Australian influencers an even larger platform–and with it new connections and value streams to sell their books, art, clothes, and writing.
Why is This Essay So Goddamn Long if All These People are Hacks?
While my deep dive into Clementine Ford, Matt Chun, Constance Hall, and Lauren Dubois did not result in me finding four people capable of subverting the geopolitical order, it did eventually lead me to much scarier people who probably do hold much larger political sway and influence. People who are involved in sham charities and who have elite academic positions. People who sit on the boards of arts orgs and determine who is awarded grant money and why. People who massage the egos of the wealthy and famous in order to profit off of the power and status of others.
All four of our Instagram influencers are easily duped with the promises of more money and notoriety which is why they are the perfect mouthpieces for a viral social media driven terrorist masked as social justice campaign. After the fall-out of the Z600 leak, all four would be proud of what they shared, and all four would defend their choice to expose their fellow Australians under the guise of feeling threatened by the very people whose lives they had destroyed.
Following the Z600 leak, Ford, Chun, Hall and Dubois would also go on to headline and promote pro-Palestine protests sponsored by Nasser Mashni, a person who is connected to terrorist organizations through his two charities: Olive Kids and APAN (Australia Palestine Advocacy Network).
In Part 3 of the Z600 we will get into who Nasser Mashni is, why he’s actually small fry, what non-profit terror fronts are involved in this larger scam and what people and networks they are connected to. We will also cover a fundamentalist Mosque linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and their involvement in Mashni’s charities. In addition, we will talk about the image savvy entertainment lawyer who became the spokesperson of said Mosque, his connection to international celebrities and pop stars, and how he utilizes these networks to promote his own sham charities. And lastly, what the leak of the Z600 list may have to do with a March 2024 torture and kidnapping situation.
Yes. Really.
We may get to academia, arts grants, and America–but I highly doubt it. Expect a Part 4.