Australia tightens security ahead of Oct 6-7 pro-Palestine protests

We were so proud of our multiculturalism in Australia. We were a banner example to the world of how well it could work. People came, worked hard, bought a little block of land, assimilated and within one generation were often more Aussie and proud than the Aussies themselves. It was beautiful.

Until, well, watch the protests and check the vibe. The gathering of what can only be the antithesis of that 'proud to be an Aussie' sentiment that kept us all mates for all this time. It's very sad. The majority of Aussies have had a gutful of this mob. Yaz done wrecked the big barby! Vial language and behavior guaranteed.

Ok, maybe not the best spellers in the world. Vile! ;p

Not even sure why these protesting people live in our lands , they seem to hate us all .Do they also want us as well Israel to be wiped off the map

Oct 6-7 pro-Palestine protests

So they want to celebrate the murders, rapes and abductions carried out by Hamas. Some cultural enrichment...

These useful !d!0+$ will protest for the aggressors who committed massacres and genocide against the Jewish people. What depraved minds.

Australia has seen a rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents since the start of the Israel-Gaza war

There is a large diaspora of both Jewish and Palestinian/Islamic people in Australia where they are both treated the same, bound by the same laws and for the most part all get along great. Until violence flairs in the Middle East. First there are grumblings but the longer the violence lasts the worse the reaction and as time goes on with more and more violence the tension keeps building.

This war that has gone a year now, started by HAMAS and from the next day onward fueled by Israel in a futile attempt to eradicate HAMAS from existence, has only increased the violence and drawn in other entities making the violence worse and making it spread further over the region.

The continuing and spreading war is driving unrest of diaspora in many places around the globe making peaceful and friendly people take up protests to stop the killing in the Middle East. Sadly nobody is listening to the message, and only comment that it is ugly and can lead to violence spreading even further and outside the region of origin.

There are two sides to every story, to every tragic clash and this is no exception. Listen to both sides, a majority of whom desperately want peace, and dont listen to those wanting to drive up the hate and the continue this war.

and the continue this war.

*and to continue this war.

Peaceful protests are fine. But when they turn aggressive and violent - making threats against people, places of worship, and carrying flags depicting machine guns etc - it is clearly unacceptable.

If people wish to carry on that violence on the other side of the world, it is best if they return to the conflict region and do what they wish. Do not import violence and intolerance to peaceful nations that have welcomed you.

Listen to both sides, a majority of whom desperately want peace, and dont listen to those wanting to drive up the hate and the continue this war.

If only that were true brother. Check the Middle East for reference. Peace is not on the menu nor the agenda, no matter how hard we wish it were.

Oct 6-7 pro-Palestine protests

So they want to celebrate the murders, rapes and abductions carried out by Hamas. Some cultural enrichment...

Ridiculous assertion. Disliking one thing does not mean advocating another.

Oct 6-7 pro-Palestine protests

Such an event could, I contend will be politically bent out of shape, misinterpreted on just about every conceivable level.

It is a time for silent Remembrance, national reflection for the innocent lives lost, whole families.

Not pro-Palestine protests.

It is powerful to see people in Australia, a country with its own history rooted in settler colonialism, acknowledging the pain that history has caused and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

How much longer will Human Rights Activists and Antigenocide Protesters be called 'Pro Palestinians'?

And remember that the biggest difference about October 7th was that the Israeli regime fired on Israeli civilians.

From the PCHRGaza report dated October 3rd

This week, 3 IOF shootings were reported on agricultural lands in eastern Gaza Strip, while 7 shootings were reported on fishing boats off western Gaza shores

Since the beginning of 2023, IOF have made 142 families homeless, a total of 821 persons, including 180 women and 362 children. This was the outcome of IOF demolition of 152 houses; 39 were forcibly self-demolished by their owners and 14 were demolished on grounds of collective punishment. IOF also demolished 118 other civilian objects, razed other property, and delivered dozens of notices of demolition and cease-construction in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

One year of killing innocent women and children is approaching fast, no one thought it would last this long.

Bibi thought he could just walk all over Gaza!!!, how wrong he and his war criminals were.

Hezbollah is a terrorists organization according to Australia so the government should come down hard on the terrorist supporters.

“How much longer will Human Rights Activists and Antigenocide Protesters be called 'Pro Palestinians'?”

Probably when the protesters stop calling themselves “Pro Palestinian” and chanting “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free”

Don’t worry some new outrage will pop up and we will call the protesters “Pro the latest thing”

If you live in the "civilized world," and the protests are peaceful, then the protesters deserve safety. A high opinion of the protesters' views is not required. This is a basic ideal in a democracy. Of course, in a dictatorship, protesters are often out of luck in this regard.

Ah, yes, let's crack down on the HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AND ANTIGENOCIDE PROTESTERS to 'prevent violence'.

Rather like how America cracked down on Civil Rights Activists and Antiracist protesters to 'prevent violence'.

First, it's not going to prevent violence, it's going to encourage the actually violent side to commit more because the government support for them makes then feel empowered.

Second, it's not going to make the activists and protesters shut up and disappear, accept the racism and mass murder as normal or unchangeable.

It's a GENERATION that looks at 'the other' and sees it's own reflection. It's also a generation that, through the ease of global communication, the ease of global travel, the Covid epidemic, the Climate Change Crisis sees that what happens to the 'other' is their responsibility even when it's happening in a country on the far side of the world in a way the previous generation did not, the same way that the ease of travel and communication within a country as large as the US meant that America's Boomers saw what was happening to the 'other' as their responsibility even when it was happening in a state on the far side of America, the way the previous generation did not.