Australia hosting an Israeli war criminal while violently bashing protesters diminishes us all
A New South Wales policing expert who participated in the Sydney rally against the Israeli president’s visit has called the police response “disappointing” and said violent clashes with protesters could have been prevented.
Law professor Luke McNamara attended the protest outside Town Hall in the CBD on Monday to oppose Isaac Herzog’s Australian tour. Footage emerged showing officers repeatedly punching protesters and using pepper spray at close range.
The premier, Chris Minns, on Tuesday called the response “proportionate” and defended controversial restrictions that gave police enhanced move-on powers and effectively banned protesters from marching from Town Hall to state parliament.
The Guardian
For Australia to allow the Israeli President, a man accused of war crimes that are so heinous they reach the technical level of genocide, into their country and then violently bashes Protestors diminishes us all in the Pacific.
In the wake of Bondi massacre, the Australian Labour Party have allowed themselves to be captured by Zionist Apologists the way the British Labor Party has been.
By claiming ‘antisemitism’, Zionist Apologists have managed to make any legitimate criticism of Israel’s disproportionate violence into an ‘attack on Jews’.
No genuine person horrified at Israel’s war crimes dislike Israeli’s because they are Jewish FFS! People dislike then because they are committing terrible war crimes against a civilian population they are occupying!
NO ONE and I mean NO ONE could get away with what Israel is doing and not get called out!
Australia has ignored legitimate criticism to roll out a blood red carpet for Herzog.
Welcoming a war criminal is one thing, violently allowing their own police force to beat the shit out of protestors is another.
What a sad day to be an Australian.
Tie my kangaroo down, sport, tie my kangaroo down
Motorcades roll through the city, shut the whole place down
Helicopters, riot lines
Politicians reading lines
Tie my kangaroo down, sport, tie my kangaroo down
Press say “peaceful, nothing wrong”
Footage edits half the song
Banners folded, chants erased
Boots and batons take their place
Smile for cameras, move along
Tie my kangaroo down, sport, keep the optics clean
Nothing happening here tonight you’re meant to see
Barricades and “public good”
Order kept the way it should
Tie my kangaroo down, sport, cue the TV screen
President arrives in town
Critics pushed and kettled round
Security’s the headline word
Not the voices barely heard
Keep the motor running, drown it out
Tie my kangaroo down, sport, law and order show
Every dissenting drumbeat told it’s time to go
Flags and flashing cobalt blue
Democracy in hi-vis too
Tie my kangaroo down, mate, run the status quo
