Activist Zee Mazloum posted vile Jewish threats
The social media account of an activist who shared personal details of hundreds of Jewish creatives vowed the entire community would be ‘targeted one by one’.
A social media account connected to an “anti-racism” activist who shared the leaked personal details of hundreds of Jewish creatives said that “Arab Jews can f..k off and die”, vowing that the entire community would be “targeted one by one”.
In social media posts in March, two months after the mass doxxing incident of about 600 Jewish creatives from a WhatsApp group, an Instagram account run by Melbourne-based activist Zee Mazloum warned that none of the community was safe.
On March 15, an Instagram account run by Mazloum posted: “Arab Jews can f..k off and die too. U think ull survive living in Brunswick udumb zios? We know all the Jews in the area and we r gonna target u one by one – business / house / everything motherf..kers. Haven’t y seen the Star of David stickers we pasting? We will set Brunswick free. Until Palestine is free.”
Lawyers acting for Mazloum told The Weekend Australian their client denied writing or posting the comments and Instagram story.
On Friday, after a response was sought from Mazloum, the account had been deleted from Instagram.
The Australian revealed in February Mazloum’s prolific Instagram posts targeting “local Zios”, particularly members of Melbourne’s Jewish community.
On Instagram, Mazloum called Zionists “vile, depraved and disgusting people”, adding they were tired of “peaceful protests”, believing it “time to f..k shit up”.
North Sydney Council on Tuesday cancelled an “anti-racism” event hosted by the Lower North Shore Multicultural Network, which was run by Hue: Colour the Conversation, a consulting firm owned by Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg, who widely disseminated the doxxed details and a close acquaintance of Mazloum. Tuet-Rosenberg is Jewish.
Mazloum is an author for Hue’s anti-racism “inclusive workplace” materials.
The Australian revealed in March that Hue had a contract with the Australian Human Rights Commission to produce anti-racism resources, but which the body later told a Senate estimates hearing was suspended.
After the doxxing, which saw Jewish businesses vandalised, others sent death threats and many more harassed online, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus introduced proposed legislation that outlawed the “malicious release” of personal details, although the provisions as drafted will not be retrospective.
Hue has also been co-running or designing anti-racism programs at some NSW public schools.
One activist running those programs has called Anthony Albanese a “Zio apologist” and claimed Zionists “love to steal”, while Hue itself has said Hamas and Hezbollah are not terrorist groups but rather “armed land defenders”.
The Education Department said it did not have a central contract with the firm.
“We take extremely seriously all reports of racism and religious intolerance or bullying, and are committed to ensuring students, parents, carers and staff can thrive in every school community,” a NSW Education Department spokesman said.
Although Hue does not have a departmental contract, schools can individually choose to engage with non-government organisations at their discretion.
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry led calls for legislative protections after January’s doxxing. Co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said Mazloum was unfit to lecture people on racism.
“It goes without saying that someone who viciously harasses and threatens people because of their ethnic origin shouldn’t be anywhere near anti-racism training except as a case study in how not to behave,” he said.
“This incident reveals how Jews have been dehumanised by the far left and anti-Israel movement. To speak this way of any group of people, and to do so publicly, requires one to view Jews as inferior, less than human and therefore deserving of public denigration.”
Mr Ryvchin said any organisation “serious about combating racism” should avoid working with Hue and that the anti-Israel activist left had adopted a pathology reminiscent of historic anti-Semitism.
“This mindset has to be rooted out and this requires condemnation from within these movements, not just from those opposed to them,” he said.
In January, Mazloum posted transcripts of the leaked chat group across a two-week period, saving the Instagram stories in a “Local Zios” tab, where they identified the names, pictures and businesses of some of those in the WhatsApp group, calling Zionists “genocidal racists”.
“They (the Zionists, WhatsApp members) are plotting, making moves and using their power to doxx and damage,” read one Instagram story, the account of which links to a website that sells “anti-Zio tees”.
Tuet-Rosenberg shared almost 200 Instagram stories to her approximately 8000 followers pertaining to the doxxing, filing the Jewish WhatsApp members into categories such as “Sports Zios”, urging her followers to “let these f..king Zionists know no f..king peace”.
In August, The New York Times confirmed correspondent Natasha Frost had exported the WhatsApp chat and shared it with a “subject of a story”, who is alleged to have “misused” the information before it ended up in the hands of activists.
The identity of that person – described as “person X” in a complaint made to the Australian Federal Police – remains unknown, with the Times previously declining to specify to whom Frost gave the transcripts.
It is not alleged that Mazloum or Tuet-Rosenberg are that person, just that as part of the incident they were prolific sharers of its contents.
The complaint made to the AFP remains with its intelligence arm, while Victoria Police was asked about its own investigation into the doxxing and whether comments such as “Arab Jews can f..k off and die too” breached any state criminal provisions.
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