Letter from Richard Sherman to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald in response to an ad placed by the Jewish Council of Australia criticizing President Herzog's visiting Australia, February 10, 2026

Dear Letters to the Editor:

Desperate for a few dollars the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is complicit with the Zionophobic* Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) in publishing an "ad" criticizing President Herzog's visit to Australia; an ad filled with fictional names, names of proud Zionists who have publicly said that they never agreed to their names being used as well as the names of three concentration camp kapos.

Only a Zionophobic* Advertising  Dept at SMH  supporting the Zionophobic* Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) would publish such a Jew hating piece of garbage. Only media which never fact checks mendacious claims against Jews would ever let this happen. One Jew hating organization washing the hands of another Jew hating organization. Yes, the JCA has internalized Jew hatred. That is why they are Zionophobic*. What is the SMH's excuse?

Zionists have known for years that JCA has the credibility of Pinocchio. This "ad" proves beyond any doubt the mendacity of every antiZionist pronouncement of JCA, an organization so desperate to deny the 3500 year old singular foundational narrative of Judaism, Zionism, that they resort to creating fictional Zionophobic supporters.

*Zionophobia, a condition described by Professor Judea Pearl,  the Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science and Statistics and the Director of the UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory and Daniel Pearl's father,  as " the absolute denial of Israel's right to exist". See: " Coexistence and Other Fighting Words", Selected Writings of Judea Pearl, 2002-2025, Epilogue. The Crater of October 7, page 144.

Richard Sherman, Florida

"Anti- Herzog Australia New Ads Under Fire for Allegedly False  Non Consensual Signatures", Jerusalem Post,  2/9/26, Mathilda Heller.