‘Globalist parasites’: One Nation senator accused of using ‘antisemitic trope’

Updated June 17, 2026 — 12:35pm,first published June 17, 2026 — 6:00am

The peak Jewish body’s co-chief executive, Alex Ryvchin, said references to global elites were central to the neo-Nazi conspiracy that an international cabal was working to destroy national identities though open borders.

“Senator Roberts may not be contemplating Jews when he talks about globalist elites and parasites, but to the extreme right the words are interchangeable, which is why such references serve to validate dangerous prejudices and normalise them,” Ryvchin said.

“The Jews were always perceived as a suspicious presence living throughout the world and without a national centre of their own, which made them the perfect villain in theories of national identities being polluted and washed away.”

Hanson’s address to the Press Club – more than 30 years after she was first elected – is seen within the party as a test of her ability to face tough questions as One Nation surges in all the polls to become a mainstream political force.

Its primary vote has reached 29 percentage points in the latest Resolve Political Monitor, ahead of Labor on 28 points and the Coalition on 20 points.

In the podcast interview, Roberts tells Fenigson – who bills herself as an independent journalist, podcaster, public speaker and marketing expert whose “path to sovereignty unfolded with the outbreak of COVID” – that he had lived in the US for five years, married an American woman and had two children who were dual Australian-American citizens.

The senator, who entered parliament as a One Nation MP in 2016, would be in the box seat to hold a senior ministerial or shadow ministerial portfolio such as Defence or Foreign Affairs if the party can translate its surge in support into more seats and a formal conservative coalition role at the next election, due in 2028.

“That country that I had so much respect for is just the world’s greatest terrorist organisation now. American people are fantastic; they are lovely people. So caring, so frank, so easy to engage, so wonderful. But their government has been hijacked by these globalist parasites since 1913 and probably before, and it’s now controlling the world’s largest military force ever,” he said in the 2024 interview.

“They don’t even need a fraction of what they’ve got. They can walk into any country on Earth. They can bring Australia along, with us just like little patsies following. Britain’s going in after them.”

Roberts then said he agreed with former US Republican congressman Ron Paul that “every major war since 1913 is directly attributable