[9] Labor MP Walt Secord, a member of the NSW Parliament's Friends of Israel group, also criticised the boycott proposal.
[10] The Australasian Muslim Times criticised the "witch-hunt by pro-Israel lobbyists because of [Moselmane's] proactive support for justice to Palestinians and South Lebanese against Israeli aggression".
[13] Dr Anthony Pun from the Chinese Community Council of Australia wrote a letter to Labor leader Jodi McKay in support of Moselmane saying, “we are indebted to the Hon Shaoquett Moselmane MLC, who have shown empathy and compassion to our difficulties, particularly to racists taunts, racially vilification and hate speech.
[11] In a February 2020 opinion piece published by the East China Normal University, Moselmane praised the Chinese government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and noted "the dregs of White Australianism from the past... are resurfacing to bring about a resurgence of the Yellow Peril mythology".
[12] In March 2020, Moselmane also praised Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, for his "unswerving leadership" in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and said that the "combined phenomenal effort of the state and the people in the fight to contain the virus was breath taking".
[14] McKay criticised the comment as "inappropriate" while Stephen Conroy and Federal Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton called for Moselmane's resignation.
[18] Writing in the CCP-owned Global Times tabloid, Chen Hong, professor and director of the Australian Studies Centre, East China Normal University, said that Moselmane had become a scapegoat.
[19] On 8 September 2020, ABC News reported that four senior Chinese journalists and academics were drawn into the investigation, including the Australia bureau chief of China News Service, Tao Shelan; China Radio International's Sydney bureau chief Li Dayong; prominent Chinese scholar and media commentator Professor Chen Hong; and another leading Australian studies scholar, Li Jianjun.
[21] In November 2020, a former policy adviser to Moselmane, John Zhang, was reported to be under investigation for money laundering and serving as an agent of foreign influence.