An anti-Israel conference scheduled for an Australian government building was canceled after a several individuals revealed its leader's anti-Semitic motives. Maqsood Alshams, an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, planned the conference to debate charging Israel with war crimes for its recent actions in Gaza. Alshams has become known Down Under as a "human rights" advocate, his stated context for relentless anti-Israel venom. On December 30, he circulated an email, calling Israel's defensive war a "crime against humanity" and demanding international intervention to "stop the Israeli carnage." In an email response, I asked Alshams why he did not call for "international intervention when Palestinians -- and Hamas in particular -- thanked Israel for leaving Gaza by making it a terrorist base to lob missiles onto civilian populations in Southern Israel?"

Alshams replied, "The simple answer is that you the Jews are real motherf***ing bast*rds." He claimed the Mossad abused him in Turkey's "Jewish Consulate" and told me to "keep your dirty mouth shut calling any Bangladeshi a brother, you guys are simply as*h*les....keep your dirty mouth shut...I wonder why God himself (sic) hate the Jews..." Now Alshams did not share these sentiments with the larger group as it would sully his carefully crafted image and reveal his actual motives; so I did...