‘I won’t shut up’: Conway’s blast for anti-Israel activists. Deborah Conway was preparing to play a song and talk about her music on ABC radio when the taxpayer-funded broadcaster cancelled her invitation. Conway’s vocal support of Israel had made her 'controversial'.
Deborah Ann Conway AM is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and had a career as a model and actress. She was a founding member of the 1980s rock band Do-Ré-Mi with their top-5 hit "Man Overboard". Conway performs solo and has 1 top-20 australian hit single.
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Deborah Conway says the corrosive effect we are seeing from the Gaza conflict, particularly the way it has split theatre companies and newsrooms and created an unwelcoming environment for Jews working in creative industries, has been coming for a while.
Conway’s exploration and understanding of her own Jewishness is a prominent theme in her music and writing. A pop icon of the 1980s as the lead vocalist of Sydney band Do-Re-Mi, she recounts in her recently published memoir, Book of Life, her non-religious but observant upbringing in Melbourne, where Shabbat dinners were at grandma’s, Yom Kippur was celebrated with “shule crawls” and antisemitism was something she never encountered. “I don’t know that anyone can mistake it right now,” she tells this masthead. “It is waltzing in a pink tutu with a flashing neon sign on its head.”
Like New York journalist Bari Weiss, who sees the rise of antisemitism as a symptom of a deeper cultural malaise created by the progressive obsession with identity, Conway says the progressive left has adopted a false narrative about Israel. Put simply, it holds that Israel, instead of a democratic state established around the ancient site of Judea to provide a safe haven for Jews after the Holocaust, is the illegitimate, colonial-era occupier of Palestinian land. Despite the problems with this construct – such as the erasure of a Jewish connection to Israel which stretches back 1000 years before the birth of Christ – it provides a helpful, who-to-hate guide for anyone wanting to sit on the right side of history.
“The oppressed/oppressor paradigm that the woke see everything through doesn’t fit for Israel/Palestine,” Conway says. “At the moment, the progressive left are incredibly loud and they see Israel as colonisers, as an apartheid state, as racist and oppressors. It is very easy to fall behind that and slam Israel for doing what any nation-state would do: protect its citizens against barbaric attacks. The seeds have been sown for a very long time and what we are seeing is a fully grown crop of very ugly antisemitic behaviour.”
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