Indigenous friends of Israel call for the return of Grace Tame’s Australian of the Year award

The Co-founders of the Indigenous Friends of Israel Foundation are calling for Grace Tame to be stripped of her Australian of the Year award.

At a protest in Sydney against the visit of the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, she led the crowd in the chant, ‘From Gadigal to Gaza, Globalize the intifada’.

Norman and Barbara Miller said: “This is incitement to violence. Just weeks after the Bondi Beach massacre, Grace Tame is calling for it to happen again somewhere in Sydney. Gadigal is the name of the Aboriginal custodians of Sydney.

The second intifada, directed at Israeli civilians by Palestinians, resulted in suicide bombings, shootings, and rocket attacks and led to over 1,000 Israeli deaths. We do not want to see this repeated in Australia, Israel or anywhere in the world.

Grace Tame’s speech could lead to a repeat of the Bondi Beach massacre of innocent Jewish civilians, including one who was only 10 years old and elderly Australians who escaped the Holocaust.”

The Millers said that false claims of genocide had been made against President Herzog and the Jewish state. They added: “The International Court of Justice has not issued a decision on whether President Herzog or Israel has committed genocide. Israel has acted in self-defence while in a battle for its very existence and maintains that it has acted within international law.

Urban warfare expert John Spencer says the IDF in Gaza have a comparatively low ratio of civilian to combatant deaths – a 1:1.5 ratio (1 combatant to 1.5 civilians). This is because the IDF have warned civilians beforehand whereas Hamas has used civilians as human shields to raise the death toll to win the propaganda war.

What is also shocking is that she is a sexual assault survivor and received her Australian of the Year award for being an advocate for survivors of sexual assault. Yet she has not spoken out about the brutal sexual assaults and murder of Israeli women on October 7 leading to the phase ‘Me too, unless you are Jewish.’ The United Nations eventually confirmed the horror of this sexual brutality against Israeli women on October 7.

The Millers said that Grace Tame is not a model for Australian women to look up to or emulate and should be stripped of her award.”