A pro-Israel WhatsApp group says it contributed to a public campaign that has seen Grace Tame lose speaking engagements.

Personally, Tame wouldn’t be the first person I’d contact re the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

More problematic is what in the sheer withering fuck is the Jewish lobby attacking her? She has a right to air her views.

Pro-Israel activists have organised mass email campaigns targeting critics of Israel, Tame said and she “has had all her speaking engagements cancelled for 2026.”

Tame has been the target of sustained attacks by right-wing politicians and media following her speech at a Sydney protest in February against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

She wrote that her “livelihood has been completely destroyed” in the month since the protest, after a “concerted smear campaign against me”.

Three specific email campaigns targeted Tame’s appearances at International Women’s Day events in Sydney and Bendigo, and the No to Violence conference in Hobart.

The pro-Israel activists appear to have scored victories. Adelaide University cancelled the event with the high-profile UN official; Multicultural Affairs Minister Anne Aly cancelled a $670,000 grant for a mostly Afghan Shia Islamic community centre in Melbourne; and Abdulhadi’s visa was denied at the last minute earlier this month.

One of the reasons why One Nation is on the rise is we have these clowns, who we let in to Australia, destroying some’s right to speak freely.

I don’t agree with everything Tame says but I refuse to let a pack of loose deck chairs conduct a deplatforming propaganda war in Australia when Israel is thousands of kilometres away.

Pen Power Australia has sent more than 26,800 letters targeting critics of Israel, including 5,642 letters in February, according to the update.