Australia, I keep trying to avoid any news to do with you, and yet you keep pulling me back in with your batshit antisemitic antics. You are the Florida of nations, a country filled with poisonous snakes, spiders, plants--even cute kangaroos can be deadly. You have enough problems to deal with, as you also suffer from California style wildfires dialed up to 11 during your scorching summer months, and it wasn’t too long ago when you classified Aboriginal people not as ‘a people’ but lumped them in with the flora and fauna of your colonized nation. So why now must you become the armpit of western antisemitism to boot? Isn’t being a nation that was originally a penal colony bad enough?
In the last two weeks there has been an attempted synagogue bombing and cars set ablaze in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, with what has become the predictable standard Nazi graffiti sprinkled on top. And in the past four weeks there has been a synagogue firebombed in Melbourne and two other Sydney synagogues desecrated with artistically placed swastikas and the obligatory “gas the Jews” spray paint prose–or as I euphemistically call it now, “anticolonial protest art.” And just yesterday–after writing this entire paragraph, a children's daycare center was also firebombed and daubed with antisemitic artwork…once again why?
Oh Australia, it was around this time last year when we first started doing this thing where I would spend way too much time on the internet reading about all the crazy people who call your oceanic nation home. Florida man has nothing on antisemitic Australian internet influencers–let me tell you, or you can just read “Z600 Part 1 and Z600 Part 2” before we get into this mess. So, buckle up everyone, I have been delaying writing this for an entire year–for reasons that will become increasingly evident as we go.
So, grab your snacks, get a beer, play some mood music, because we are riding the Z600 saga out into the sunset–at least until I am forced to write Part 4.
Recap-A Brief Refresher of Where We Left Off Last Time.
A list of Jews was leaked on the internet in late January of 2024. The two people implicated in disseminating this list of six hundred Jewish Australians were New York Times Journalist Natasha Frost and ex Australian Broadcasting Corporation Journalist Antoinette Lattouf, which I covered in detail in Z600 Part 1. This list was then widely shared on social media by an army of Australian micro celebrities, four of whom I covered in the Z600 Part 2. The most prominent personalities which I covered in Part 2 include Clementine Ford, Matt Chun, Lauren Dubois, and Constance Hall who shared the csv file with their hundreds of thousands of social media followers over Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms.
Jewish Australians who found their names, home addresses, phone numbers, and photographs on this list, which originated from a closed WhatsApp group of artists, journalists, and academics, that NYT journalist Natasha Frost infiltrated, were harassed, their businesses vandalized, their children threatened. Since the initial leak, some have abandoned their old neighborhoods and communities completely—in the most extreme cases even leaving the country.
If you are skipping ahead and not reading Part 1 and Part 2 (but lots of good stuff in there) you may be asking yourself, why do I care so much about leaks of lists of Jews in Australia? Take out the part about Jews and add in Australians, or replace it with Americans, whatever makes you understand that this behavior can be weaponized against anyone. Anyone can be vulnerable in the mucky waters of the internet and have their lives destroyed by doxx lists.
The Z600 list was also not the first “list of Jews” event from the past year and a half. There was one prior that everyone has mysteriously forgotten about–-but not me! Because thanks to insomnia I was up watching as the news rolled in on October 6th, 2023, of the largest 23andMe targeted attack in history, where a hacker named “Golem” stole the genetic data and personal information of 7 million 23andMe users, and then posted the information of “Jewish celebrities,” or genetic data targeting people of Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity on hacking and cybercrime networks across the internet.
What was done with this data, where is it now, and why was it posted a literal day before the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust? Not sure–but we are going to finish the Z600 Part 3 this week so I can move on to scarier and more ominous stories–like that one, and Z600 Part 4, and 5, because this whole project is a monster I was not expecting it to be.
The never-ending stories continues:
Instagram Bobby
So, there I was, a year ago, “coping” with this new type of PTSD layered onto my old PTSD lying on my bed with my phone, using my face as a charging station. I am just now climbing out of this emotional state, so it’s still hard to describe since there hasn’t been enough distance from being in the thick of my feelings to look at my instability objectively, but I think “cognitive dissonance” and “mind paralysis” are good phrases to use, they seem to showcase my lack of good decision making skills, which is how I entered this mess to begin with.
There is this symptom of complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that isn’t really talked about that often, but I have realized in my thirties has shaped most of the bad relationships and strange interactions I’ve had in my short life, and that is my lack of a “red flag detector.” I do not have an effective way of filtering out dangerous people–I am aware of this defect in my personality now, but that doesn’t mean I do not continuously make this mistake repeatedly. My lack of a red flag detector is how I came to be entangled with “Bobby,” the other person who did much of the heavy lifting in the Z600 story.
So, there I was, lying in bed, rigor mortis style, phone clenched in hand, in the middle of the night in late January, scrolling Instagram, a day after the mass doxx list called the “Zio 600” was disseminated online and nearly four months after October 7th, 2023, when Bobby’s posts first came across my feed.
Bobby’s Instagram stories were some of the wildest pieces of work that I had ever seen—these were social media posts that made your eyeballs exercise. Bobby was sharing PowerPoint style concoctions of paragraphs from articles and Bobby’s personal commentary speckled with screenshots from Islamist and progressive social media accounts. Bobby’s posts were packed so full of information you needed to screenshot them so you could zoom in on specific sentences and details of the main characters involved in what was quickly becoming a conspiracy theory level story.
Bobby had zeroed in on a radical Australian mosque and multiple nonprofit art organizations tying key people of the Australian Free Palestine movement to international terrorist groups and the leak of the Z600 list. Bobby’s posts were insane and came from the depths of the internet. He wasn’t Jewish, he wasn’t Muslim, he wasn’t Australian, and his motives for researching radical mosques and arts organizations halfway around the world wasn’t clear to me at first. Only a crazy person could make these connections–and Bobby was my crazy person.
PTSD is a wild ride, I recently read that if you have cPTSD it means you essentially have a brain injury which explains my occasional fogginess, difficulty remembering minute details and my broken red flag detector. In fact, I gravitate towards people who are messed up like me—and like a moth to a flame, me and Bobby became fast friends because we were both in some ways the same, for better and ultimately worse.
Having a broken vetting system for detecting dangerous and emotionally unstable people means that I had my blinders on for most of our working relationship, which helped when things started to go completely sideways–which in the end, they did, but I’ll leave that story for the supplemental section. Having a crappy vetting system for danger is also how we got three posts deep into an essay that at this point needs chapters.
What will become more and more evident as we go is how the Z600 doxx list is not just about the leak—it is really about the ecosystem around what led up to the Pandora’s box of antisemitism that is now engulfing Australia and the wider western world. And while we will jump around from 1962 to 1977 to 2005, 2007, 2018 to the present day, we will be starting our story in the year 2000 in the suburbs of Sydney.
The 2000 Sydney Gang Rapes, the 2005 Cronulla Riots and the Influence of Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman
Between August and September 2000, a series of gang rapes took place in the city of Sydney, New South Wales. During the Sydney Rape Trial Judge Michael Finnane described the rapes as events that "you hear about or read about only in the context of wartime atrocities.”
The group used mobile phones to coordinate their attacks calling the other members when they had cornered a potential victim. Even though the assaults appeared to be premeditated and coordinated many of the members of the gang were perceived to be primitive and mentally challenged. In an August 2002 Sydney Morning Herald article, a perpetrator named H is written about as follows:
While still aboard the train, H masturbated in front of her. When she tried to turn away and said, "you wonder why people don't like the Lebanese", he slapped her.
During the attack, H received a call from other gang members in which he told the caller: "I've got a slut with me, bro, come to Punchbowl."
Judge Finnane said he was satisfied that had the teenager not escaped, H and the caller were planning to abduct and rape her.
H's crimes were cowardly, contemptible, premeditated and warranted stern punishment.
However, H, whose mother gave birth to the first of eight children at 12, had an IQ of 67, putting him in the lowest 1 percent of the population. "I give weight to evidence that he is remorseful, that he can be rehabilitated and has some intellectual disability."
When the premier of New South Wales Bob Carr (from 1995-2005) accidentally revealed the ethnicity of the Sydney Rape Gang, a series of controversies years apart followed. Ethnic community leaders from the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), the mouthpiece of Australia’s Largest Mosque expressed concern of how these remarks would impact the larger Lebanese Muslim community.
Keysar Trad—who will we will cover in more detail later, was the official spokesperson for Sheik Taj El-Din Hilaly, who served as the head imam of Lakemba Mosque from 1982 until 2007, said the statement by Carr made the entire Lebanese community responsible for a few bad apples and would stir up ethnic hatred of Lebanese Muslims among the broader Australian population.
The 2005 Sydney based Cronulla Race Riots confirms some of Trad’s earlier warnings about ethnic hatred and violence. Many commentators speculate that the street fights that erupted between Australian and Lebanese youths could be traced back to rumination and lingering tension over the 2000 Sydney Gang Rapes.
Revelers burned and smashed cars and storefronts and were emboldened by homemade signs they carried that read things like “Intifada” and “Sunday Cowards Die.” During the riots travel warnings against visiting Australia were issued for citizens of Great Britain, Canada, and Indonesia. What started as brawling on a beach in the suburbs of Sydney on the 4th of December 2005 ended a week and a half later on the evening of December 12th 2005 with approximately 800 people outside and 2000 people inside of the largest mosque in Australia—Lakemba Mosque.
Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman spoke to the crowd that had gathered at Lakemba that day, pleading for “calm.” A site to behold when you view the photographs captured by Australian media and notice people in the crowd armed with Glock pistols. There was a plan by the rioters inside and outside Lakemba to go on to Maroubra, another suburban beach community, but police had by this point encircled most of the mosque and blocked many of the major roads into town.
However, that didn’t save the primarily Tongan Uniting Church in Auburn Australia another neighboring Sydney Suburb from being torched by rioters, with those attending Christmas celebratory services threatened. So much for the superficial proclamations of peace--as after the riot was over, more than 30 Molotov cocktails were confiscated by police.
Alsuleiman, the imam that pleaded for calm during the 2005 Cronulla riots, may have appeared to abhor violence, however his statements ring hollow when you learn more about his involvement with the radical fringes of his community. In an article titled “Al-Qaeda at city mosque” the Sydney Morning Herald profiles a staff journalist who was ejected from the Lakemba Mosque for attempting to attend an event with Anwar al-Awlaki, a key organizer, recruiter, and spiritual motivator for the Islamist terrorist group.
A director of the mosque alleged that Shady Alsuleiman oversaw planning the event where one of the most wanted members of Al-Qaeda spoke via a phone link. The American born Anwar al-Awlaki would be killed a year later in Yemen by a drone strike ordered and organized by the Obama administration. While I cannot find any evidence that Alsuleiman was directly involved with the terrorist organization other than inviting a member of Osama’s inner circle to hop on a video call, Alsuleiman was banned from visiting the Kingdom of Denmark in 2018, presumably to prevent him from spreading his religiously fundamentalist views in the country.
What were his fundamentalist views you may be asking? He does not seem like a bad person. Sure, he may have gotten too cozy with Anwar, but Anwar al-Awlaki at first glance kind of looks like a nerd, so what if he was hanging out in caves in Yemen presumably with underage brides trying to make the entire Middle East into one big happy Islamic caliphate? We all make mistakes.
Well, I have not gone into as much depth on Alsuleiman, but I have investigated his former boss, Taj El-Din Hilaly.
Taj El-Din Hilaly and the History of Lakemba Mosque.
Various other actors associated with Lakemba Mosque and by extension the Lebanese Muslim Association appear to indicate that imams like Alsuleiman are a pattern and not a bug in their religious and political leadership. Going back as early as 1977 the year the mosque was founded, Lakemba has had controversies involving platforming, disseminating, and promoting extremism and violent religious rhetoric.
During the September 1977 Ramadan holiday, Lakemba Mosque distributed four thousand copies of a text to its congregants titled the “Holy War” (Jihad). This document, rumored to be prepared by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, called for Muslims to wage war against foreign interference and to spread Islam in addition to making bigoted and discriminatory remarks against Christians, Hindus, and Jews referring to them as infidels that must be fought.
In 1982 Taj El-Din Hilaly became the head imam of the Lakemba Mosque where he would remain until 2007. During his time as imam, Hilaly’s wages were alleged to be paid by private donations and organizations like Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan Islamic Call Society–one of the leading Muslim missionary networks controlled by one of the Arab world’s most brutal despots.
The Jews' struggle with humanity is as old as history itself; the present continuing struggle with the Islam nation is a natural continuation of the Jews' enmity towards the human race as a whole. Judaism controls the world by...secret movements as the destructive doctrines and groups, such as communism, libertarianism, Free Masons, Bahaism, the Rotary clubs, the nationalistic and racist doctrines. The Jews try to control the world through sex, then sexual perversion, then the promotion of espionage, treason, and economic hoarding
Hilaly never apologized for his remarks or retracted his statements, and despite attempts to deport Hilaly before and after this speech, the imam only grew in prominence, culminating with Hilaly being made the first, and so far, only mufti in Australia.
In 2004 Hilaly would come under scrutiny again for a speech where it appeared he celebrated the September 11th, 2001, attacks on America. At a sermon in Beirut Lebanon Hilaly would make the following remarks:
Sons of Islam, there is a war of infidels taking place everywhere. The true man is the boy who opposes Israeli tanks with strength and faith. The boy who, despite his mother's objections, goes out to war to become a martyr like his elder brother.
The boy who tells his mother: 'Oh mother, don't cry for me if I die. Oh mother, Jihad has been imposed on me, and I want to become a martyr'..."
Islam started with strangers and will return to strangers. In the old times they used to say that Islam started with strangers because it was defended by them. The Islamic revolution started in the Arab peninsula, but Islam was defended by non-Arabs and the most prominent religious leaders in old times were non-Arabs. Therefore, we say that Islam started with strangers.
And I tell you that Islam will return to strangers if Arabs give up their religion or if preachers of Islam are persecuted. If this is the case, then Islam will become stronger, and its strength will appear in other countries. And perhaps we will find one day an Islamic revolution, and Islamic ideology in western countries.
Don’t be surprised if one day you hear the Muezzin calling for prayer and saying “Allah Akbar (Allah is Great)” from the top of the white house. September 11 is God’s work against oppressors. Some of the things that happen in the world cannot be explained; a civilian airplane whose secrets cannot be explained if we ask its pilot who reached his objective without error, who led your steps? (An allusion to 7/11) Or if we ask the giant that fell, who humiliated you? Or if we ask the President, who made you cry? God is the answer.
I’m telling you that there are no English Korans left in Australia or America or Europe. Everyone is converting to Islam: soldiers, pilots, engineers… those who are spending money to stop the ways of God will spend their money but will be defeated eventually. Trust me, my dear friends.
In this sermon Hilaly also seems to support Hezbollah and predicted that Muslims would eventually control the White House. While clearly an incendiary speech, Hilaly’s remarks at the event were never investigated by the Australian Federal Police since they had been made overseas.
In 2006 Hilaly was sacked from the Australian Government’s “Muslim Community Reference Group” for comments Hilaly made where he called the Holocaust a “Zionist Lie" and referred to the State of Israel as a “cancer.” It is worth noting again per my Z600 Part 1 piece that Australia has the highest per-capita number of Holocaust survivors in the world outside of Israel.
In the same year (2006) at an October Lakemba Mosque Ramadan sermon, Hilaly again courted controversy with a speech about women’s clothing and modesty, saying in Arabic quote:
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."
In this sermon Hilaly also made the claim that women are primarily responsible for sexually motivated attacks against them and referenced Bilal Skaf the main ringleader of the 2000 Sydney Gang Rapes. Hilaly goes on to infer that the women, several of whom were young teenagers at the times of the attacks, were swaying suggestively in front of the perpetrators inferring that they were asking to be sexually assaulted.
Hilaly Gets Deported
In January 2007 Hilaly made remarks on Egyptian television that caused an uproar in Australia. Of the statements made, the most upsetting were the references about Muslims having more ownership of Australia than British and Irish settlers, because the latter arrived as convicts, while Muslims paid for their own tickets to the oceanic nation. Hilaly also singled out westerners, especially the English race, as being the biggest liars and oppressors in Australian society. Of course, Hilaly did not just insult the Brits, he also had it out for the gays, and in the same televised speech, he also condemned Australia for giving homosexuals human rights, as it was around this time that gay marriage was becoming more acceptable to larger western society.
Later in 2007, after these televised remarks were made public, and following the anger from the 2006 Ramadan speech, Hilaly retired from his role as a mufti and was deported from Australia. He died at the age of 82 in Egypt on October 5th, 2023.
Hilaly’s deportation from Australia, marks an important pivot in the story of Lakemba Mosque as it signified what Gen Z now calls “a vibe shift.”
Tom Zreika, Keysar Trad, the Lebanese Muslim Association and The Vibe Shift
Lakemba Mosque may have been created in 1977, but the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) which owns and operates the house of worship was formed 15 years prior in 1962. LMA was initially created as a community project aiming to serve the "social, religious, recreational and educational" needs of Sunni Australian Muslims, and to advocate on their behalf in pursuit of these aims, which does involve fundraising and involvement in Australian politics. While LMA is registered as a charity–it is not entitled to receive tax deductible gifts, but the mosque that LMA owns and operates is subjected to different Australian nonprofit tax rules given its status as a house of worship.
Lakemba being a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold is an important note going forward, as the Muslim Brotherhood is a political as well as a religious fundamentalist organization. The Brotherhood has military wings like Hamas, ISIS, Al Qaeda, but also participates in polishing Islamist candidates in western countries like Australia–the suit and tie clean shaven mask of bigotry and Sharia law--no different than extremist political evangelical Christian sects in America that want no boundary between church and state.
Tom Zreika, a lawyer and (at the time) politician, rose to prominence as a negotiator and spokesman for LMA and Lakemba Mosque at the height of the racial tensions in the aftermath of the Cronulla riots. Compared to Keysar Trad, who also acted as Hilaly’s interpreter and spokesperson, Zreika was modern, polished, and professional.
Trad, who I have briefly mentioned in the other sections above, has made his own controversial statements about Jews and had his own unique ties to terrorist organizations that made him a magnet for bad press. In addition to his work with various Muslim associations in Australia, Trad also aspired to become a politician. However his rap sheet of terrorist associations, his refusal to condemn Hezbollah, his advocacy for Sharia courts for Muslims, and his affinity for polygamous marriages (Trad wanted a second wife…badly) plus his approval of beating one’s wife per literal interpretations of Quranic text (but only as a last resort) made him unelectable in early 21st century Australia.
With his lawyerly skills and Oscar worthy performance under pressure in the national spotlight, Zreika would eventually take over as president of LMA in 2006, in an attempt to rehabilitate the image of the organization. In a 2007 Guardian article pertaining to the radical Lakemba Mosque imams being gagged for saying upsetting things Zreika said quote:
Initially working damage control for Hilaly’s public relations disasters, Zreika was the cleanup crew when the imam would go too far. Whether it was inferring that immodest women were like uncovered meat, or that gays shouldn’t have equal rights, Zreika was there to showcase a friendlier, more modern, and less ‘7th century’ approach of Lakemba Mosque to the the non-Muslim Australian public.
That’s what makes Zreika a shrewd lawyer and the perfect Muslim politician. But, if you remove the suit, the celebrity connections, the glossy beard-free exterior, Zreika was just as radical, just in subtler ways.
In an article dated Friday April 6th 2007, titled “AFP continues probe into Al Hilali funds” from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hilaly (his name is also spelled Hilali per the above headline) was investigated by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to determine if the Sheik broke commonwealth laws by allegedly giving charity funds to a terrorist supporter.
Per the article:
“The Lebanese Muslim Association raised $70,000 to help victims of the war in Lebanon, but it is concerned that Sheikh Al Hilali might have given some funds to a Lebanese radio station with suspected links to Iraqi insurgents.”
This Lebanese radio station in question–I have not been able to find. I am curious as to what associations they may have had whether it be Hezbollah (aka Iran) or Al Qaeda–but so far, no luck pinning down the name of the station (which ABC fails to provide–for some reason). However in another article from ABC from a few days prior (dated April 2nd 2007) it is reported that $10,000 was given to the radio station in question and another undisclosed amount of money was given to the daughter of Lebanon's assassinated Prime Minister-Rafic Hariri. It has been heavily implied that the assassination of Hariri, who was fighting to get Syrian forces and political influences out of Lebanon, was approved by Bashar al-Assad, and orchestrated by Hezbollah.
Zreika was of course interviewed to make a statement about the controversy-pulled from the April 2nd ABC article:
"We sent over supposedly model citizens of the community and that's the best that we could have done under the circumstances," says LMA president Tom Zreika.
Mr Zreika says Sheikh Al Hilali must explain why money was donated to the station.
"It was telling people how to get out of Lebanon and out of the danger zones," he said.
"He wanted to assist that radio but ... until I get something on their letterhead or receipts at least, to show where that money went - I'm not happy."
But in an effort to control the damage the LMA is now offering its donors a refund.
"If they're not happy with the way we've done it, they can come and take their money," he said.
This was an interesting statement to me in multiple ways, given that Hilaly was Lakemba Mosque’s most high-profile employee, there was no way LMA didn’t know where the donation money was going, or whom it was going to. LMA, Tom Zreika, and Lakemba Mosque seem to be speaking out of both sides of their mouths, preaching and advocating one thing to their congregants and supporters—while saying another to the Australian public and the western press.
A second incident at the beginning of 2007 is interesting precisely because it preceded the April disappearing money trail. In an article dated February 2nd 2007 in the Sydney Morning Herald titled “Former terror suspect to stand in NSW election,” a former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib is covered for his desire to stand in the March 2007 New South Wales election. Habib ran as an independent in the Sydney suburb of of Auburn with support from the Auburn Human Rights Group (AHRG). A dual Egyptian and Australian citizen, Habib was held for three years by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay detention camp as an enemy combatant.
Habib was arrested by the US in 2001 during a trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan. The United States accused Habib of having had knowledge of the September 11th attacks, training the hijackers, and staying at an Al Qaeda safe house. The US also accused Habib of being in Afghanistan to conduct surveillance for the terror organization, aiding and abetting in the transfer of chemical weapons and assisting in the coordination of hijacking the aircraft used in the 2001 New York City and Washington DC attacks.
Habib was able to win a lawsuit in 2004 arguing that he was unlawfully detained in a case titled Habib v. Bush which would eventually be consolidated with cases from other unlawfully detained prisoners at Guantanamo Bay into the 2004 Supreme Court case Rasul v. Bush. The court ruled in favor of the prisoners and per the court’s decision, Habib was allowed to return to Australia where he campaigned briefly in 2007 for the Auburn Seat in the local Sydney elections. Per the Sydney Morning Herald piece, Habib’s 2007 campaign ambitions were as follows:
In a statement issued today, Mr Habib said he would be campaigning for "the right of freedom of expression and in opposition to the anti-terrorist laws, state and federal".
"The right to fight racism, the end of scapegoating of Aborigines, Muslims and migrants," Mr Habib said.
"The right to oppose Australia's involvement in Iraq."
But per another Sydney Morning Herald article–this time from 2004 it is alleged that Habib wore Osma Bin Laden T shirts and tried to sign up Australians for Jihad prior to his fateful visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan. And, in the same article, our old friend Hilaly is interviewed, describing Habib as "sharp and aggressive.”
A taxi driver who frequented Habib’s cafe was also quoted and said the following:
On returning, Mr Habib had not said what he had done, but said he had met bin Laden and found Afghanistan a "truly great place".
Habib, a regular at Lakemba Mosque, would also involve LMA in his political campaign—which isn’t surprising, as Hilaly had expressed aspirations of getting into politics and forming an Australian Islamic party before his 2007 deportation to Egypt. Given LMA’s precarious tax status as a charity that also had been formed with the goals of advocating for the Lebanese Muslim community through social and political action, LMA and by extension, Lakemba Mosque would have to make statements regarding Habib’s 2007 campaign. The Auburn election once again placed president of LMA, Tom Zreika at the center of the controversy.
At the end of the Sydney Morning Herald piece is the following paragraph:
The Labor spokesman called on Opposition Leader Peter Debnam to reveal what links Tom Zreika, a Liberal Party member and president of the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), had to Mr Habib's candidature.
In a 2007 public statement responding to Habib’s campaign, Zreika made it clear that LMA would not back political candidates. Which is an odd thing to assert, especially considering the overtly political nature of LMA in addition to the Muslim Brotherhood roots of Lakemba Mosque, as the Brotherhood is a politically Salafi Islamist group, and the head imam, Hilaly had publicly expressed interest in creating a Muslim Australian party.
However, some deflection was probably necessary given the bad press and hot water Hilaly had gotten LMA and the mosque into with his controversial statements and possible terrorist ties. In May of 2007 right before Hilaly’s deportation, the Australian Federal Police would clear the Sheik of all charges related to the alleged financing of terrorism, citing not enough supporting evidence. LMA welcomed the investigation findings, and Tom Zreika would stay on as president of LMA long after Hilaly’s departure.
Conclusion-For Now
Habib would eventually author a book and be welcomed at literary festivals. Keysar Trad would go on to head several other Australian Islamist organizations. And, President of LMA—Tom Zreika who per his Sterling Legal Law Firm page has ‘enviable clients’ like Marina Picasso (the heir and granddaughter of the famed artist, Pablo Picasso) in relation to a $300 million art deal, would start the process of integrating Lakemba Mosque’s version of Islam into the arts and liberal society. Zreika along with his allies would obscure the radical goals of orgs like LMA under a friendly veneer of community activism and nonprofit organizations. Later on, Zreika would leave his post as president of LMA, and create a nonprofit called AusReleif—an organization with shady connections to other characters that we will cover next time.
I know it may seem odd to title this piece Z600 Part 3 with very little reference to the January 2024 doxx list, or the Instagram influencers who I covered in detail in Part 2; however, I am spacing this out like the HBO series The Wire, so bear with me–there is a logic to this disorganization.
Part 1 is all about the initial leak—who was responsible for the leak, and the logistics behind how the list was created, disseminated, distributed. Part 2 focused solely on the influencers who posted the csv link to their social media profiles and participated in the bullying and smearing campaigns. Part 3 (covered here) and Part 4 (next time) will focus on the Islamist aspects of this scandal.
So yes, expect a whole other section devoted to Islamist organizations and networks because there are a lot of them, and they are all connected. And in addition—they all sponsor or are involved in the protests that have been terrorizing Jewish Australian neighborhoods and western campuses alike.
You may have also noticed (which means you have dutifully read the other two portions of this story-thank you) that I haven't gotten to the March 2024 kidnapping torture situation yet, who the heck Nasser Mashni is, how all of this ties back to our four egotistical Instagram influencers, or even how arts and academic groups are involved in any of this—-these (and so much more) are all once again questions for Part 4, and (hopefully) the final portion of this story which will be the nonprofit organizations and the Academics…because oh baby are they involved…
This five thousand plus word monstrosity was necessary because in order to tell a complete story of antisemitism in Australia and the wider west, Lakemba Mosque and everyone who has passed through its network and climbed the totem pole of power and political influence is important. It’s also important to emphasize, Lakemba Mosque is not actually that extraordinary—it’s the largest mosque in Australia, sure—but do not dare think that its extremist networks are unique, they aren’t (just do a search for “Dearborn Michigan” on the MEMRI website some time). I have looked into plenty of other places in America, Canada, the UK, and Europe and found connections just as damning. The issue with Lakemba is, well, they are connected to the Z600 trail. And next time you will find out how.
I am not sure how long the next segment will take me–I hadn’t anticipated how much work this would be, clearly. I am a one woman show at this point given that Bobby now thinks I was catfishing him for months and lying about being a Jew (and somehow Tori Amos’s daughter? I fucking wish). Once again, I will save that for the supplemental section after all the other stuff has been written down.
Anyway, more to come.