Free Palestine protests are not antisemitic; they are a democratic response to mass killing and Australia’s complicity in it. Yet the Royal Commission heard witnesses brand them as hate on evidence untested by cross-examination and uncorroborated by the vast public record of 2.5 years of rallies, while descriptions of “gangs of young Muslim men” passed without challenge. Free Palestine Melbourne’s submission exposes the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism for what it is: not a defence of social cohesion, but a means to silence criticism of a genocide. To brand a people’s demand for equality as hate is itself anti-Palestinian racism.