In 2012, when Melbourne’s daily newspaper The Age first published “First they came for the Palestinians” by renowned cartoonist, poet, and political-cultural commentator Michael Leunig, predictably and ironically, he was immediately besieged by influential factions within Australia’s Jewish community. Leunig responded stating his cartoon was based on famous lines, with a message both universal and eternal, that “neatly highlight the way apathetic or frightened silence in the face of injustice is a dereliction of moral duty.”