Published: 29 January 2025
Last updated: 29 January 2025
There are times when shining a light in a particular direction in a particular way illuminates a truth that was intimated, but not entirely clear.
We now have such a light shining on the protests that engulf our cities each week, disrupt the peaceful atmosphere of our multicultural communities, and claim not to be anti-Jewish or antisemitic, merely pro-Palestinian.
The protests called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas – and we now have a ceasefire. They called for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza – and we now have a timetable for that. And they called for an increase of humanitarian aid into the territory – and that is now happening.
Yet the protests are continuing. Why?
Well, to the Jewish community and much of the wider world, the reason is clear. The protests were never just about a ceasefire, an Israeli withdrawal or humanitarian aid, since if they were, the protestors would be putting down their banners and going home. And very many of the protestors are still there.
Part of a long-term strategy fed by radical Islam and its unholy alliance with the far Left, the protests seek to eradicate from the world its only Jewish state.
In a world with 57 Muslim countries and a single Jewish one, in a region with 315 million Muslims and just 7 million Jews in Israel (in a country of 10 million), and in a Middle East of 9.9 million square kilometres with just 21,000 for Israel (that’s less than a third the size of Tasmania), the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the region is the protestors’ goal.
Comments14
R.S.17 October at 07:09 pm
Seems AI algorithms and social media that only give more of what a person already believes is a huge problem that spreads propaganda, unchecked. For those misinformed, they are even more so indoctrinated by AI algorithms. People assume AI only tells the truth and don’t realize that AI is just a google search and capable of mistakenly spreading lies and propaganda.
I’ve even thought if it continues that Israel should file a lawsuit for the damage done so that AI is trained to give balanced responses and reviews balanced feeds instead of feeding the most common propaganda.
Gordon Rouse1 March at 10:32 pm
Given this article defames me and my fellow protestors, I would hope you will allow us the right to respond.
Firstly you state that we should be packing up our protests as a ceasefire has now been achieved. This does not recognize that the ceasefire itself is still very fragile. Insufficient AID is still a problem, more babies are freezing to death and Netanyahu seems to using every possible pretense to try to sabotage the ceasefire to save his Coalition. There is also the huge Pachyderm looming in the room – an attempt to ethnic cleanse Gaza and turn it into a resort for rich Christian Zionists. There is still plenty of good reasons for us to protest.
The issue of a one-state versus two-state solution is becoming a boring academic argument that is not worth our emotional effort. Our movement is concerned with justice for Palestinians and Israelis. Palestinians are the ones displaced, who were forcibly removed from their homes in 1948, they are the ones living under occupation, whether it is at the pointy end of a gun in the West Bank or in an open prison in Gaza where their ability to travel, or develop their economy is controlled by Israel. There is, and has never been an intent from Pro-Palestinian sympathisers to ethnic cleanse Israelis from their homes in Israel. It is the Palestinians who are losing their homes to settlers. It is the Israelis who have sabotaged the hope for a two-state solution by supporting settlers and settler violence in the West Bank. With the two-state solution becoming more distant, then the only other solution is one where Palestinians return to becoming full citizens in their own land, in the same way that Indigenous Australians became citizens of Australia in 1962. Palestinians should be able to live peacefully with the sames rights as Jewish Israelis, and they should have the right to return to the land of their grand-parents. This is the one-state solution and it says nothing about ejecting Jewish inhabitants from the land, it is simply a call for political freedom from the River to the Sea!
The notion that this war began on October 7th is wearing very thin. I refuse to believe such ignorance exists among Zionist Jews. They must be surely aware of the tension that was building up in occupied East Jerusalem leading up to October the 7th and the unprovoked shooting of Palestinian protesters through the fence in Gaza. This only a snap-shot of the oppression that began even before 1948.
This charge of being a coalition of unholy alliance between radical Islam and the left seems to ignore the broad base of this movement. I cannot comment on the religious beliefs of my Muslim brothers and sisters at these rallies, and it seems rather bigoted to assume that they are radicals because they are Muslims. Neither can I know fully what beliefs the Christians, Jews and Sheiks in these rallies subscribe to. It is all irrelevant.
Finally we need to address this ‘look over there’ argument about antisemitism. We know that oppression occurs in other countries, yet Israel is supposedly an ally of Australia and Western Democracy. This is a conflict where the Western world is complicit in arming Israel and failing to hold it to account for its oppression. Australia played a huge role in the formation of the state of Israel beginning when the Light Horse Calvary jumped the trenches in Beersheba and put the Ottomans to flight in World War 1. We have always had a vested interest in the Colonial state of Israel, yet like all colonial projects, it is based on dubious moral foundations. The colonial history of both Australia and Israel cannot be undone, but we can move towards a just solution.
Our Pro-Palestinians movement is always seeking peace and reconciliation under just terms.