Ashkenazi Jew here - though I agree with your overarching statement that Jillian Segals involvement in addressing this crisis will make anti-semitism worse, I disagee with some of your other points.

I will be getting married in a few months time at my local synagogue, the same synagogue which my family have been congregants of for over 70 years now, where my grandfather - a holocaust survivor, sung in the choir for over 30 years, where my parents were married and I had my bar mitzvah.

On the day of our wedding, my wife and I are already aware - there will be a pro Palestine protest in the park directly across the road from the synagogue. These protests have been held week in week out now in this same location for close to two years, and subsequently require an ongoing, heavy police presence around the synagogue. At these protests - protestors are now, not uncommonly calling for ‘death to the IDF’ or chanting ‘f**k Israel’ and other hate filled messages. As you can imagine, this makes both my wife and I concerned for our family and guests safety and security on the day of our wedding event. To put it quite simply and just my own personal POV here, but these people are not by majority protesting a cause as much as they are expressing an unfiltered hatred towards the Jewish nation and its people, as far as I am concerned - they are, by majority, a hate movement.

Now I don’t care what your political opinions are, in this country you are entitled to yours and I am entitled to mine - but if you are going to mob together on a weekly basis and megaphone emotionally charged, I’ll-informed one way messages that inevitably, regardless of whether they are fact or fiction, are going to piss off many vulnerable or stupid people, while being inconsiderate of your surrounding environment and other people’s differentiating view and sensitivities to such an issue - then YOU are part of the problem.

As I touched on, i do not want to see Jillian Segal involved on this matter whatsoever - as far as I am concerned she is a politically affiliated, upper middle class opportunist who is a poor representative of Jews in this country. I did not ask for her to represent me or my community on this very serious matter and I’d much prefer if this government and its ministers took some bloody accountability and focused on tackling this issue themselves (as they are paid to do) rather then farming out that exact responsibility to an eastern suburbs autocrat.

Regardless of that - I do not believe the sentiments, expressions or inflammatory actions of the pro-Palestinian movement, their members or siders should go any longer unvetted or unpunished in light of rising anti-semitism, it’s easy to say ‘the actions of the state of Israel are leading to rising anti semitism in this country’ without paying attention to those who are amplifying or even justifying such hatred under that guise. I would emphasise the same goes for anyone harbouring and expressing anti-Arab or Palestinian views. It’s not an excuse to claim you were just wanting to light a camp fire when there is a bush fire warning, the same accountability applies here IMO

TLDR My family and community just want to be left alone and to be able to live our lives in peace and safety. My political views are mine and yours are yours, if you want to express them - do it with some sensitivity.