{"id":116308,"date":"2024-10-11T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116308"},"modified":"2024-10-05T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T06:57:29","slug":"11-00-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116308","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Hezbollah Protests Are a Threat to Australian Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Pro-Hezbollah Protests Are a Threat to Australian Society<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Justin Amler<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Illustrative: Supporters of Hamas gather for a rally in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Reuters\/Joel Carrett<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Last weekend, a large group of protestors in Melbourne and Sydney, waved Hezbollah flags and displayed photographs of assassinated Hezbollah terror chief, Hassan Nasrallah.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organization in Australia, so this kind of public support is illegal, yet this did not stop the protestors from turning out and chanting anti-Israel slogans through the streets of Australia\u2019s biggest cities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Australia has regularly experienced this kind of open hatred.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just one day after the October 7 Hamas massacre, a frenzied group of demonstrators\u00a0gathered<\/a>\u00a0on the steps of the iconic Sydney Opera House, burning Israeli flags and chanting \u201cf\u2026k the Jews\u201d and \u201cWhere\u2019s the Jews?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That violent display of hate should have been shut down immediately, but it wasn\u2019t \u2014 marking the beginning of what would be a difficult year for Australia\u2019s Jewish community, with weekly protests often descending into intimidation, violence, and antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Law enforcement has kept order, but mostly seemed determined to avoid levying any actual charges against the perpetrators.<\/span><\/p>\n

This hatred on the streets of Australia has not been helped by radical imams who have praised Hamas\u2019 terror attacks and spouted hateful, antisemitic rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Nasrallah\u2019s death, one mosque in Sydney issued a\u00a0notice<\/a>\u00a0publicizing\u00a0 a vigil to be held for him, called him a \u201crighteous martyr.\u201d This was followed by a\u00a0hateful\u00a0sermon<\/a>\u00a0calling for Israel\u2019s defeat, which cited a notorious tradition accusing the Jews of rejecting Allah and having distorted the Torah.<\/span><\/p>\n

Particularly disturbing in these demonstrations is the open support from members of The Greens political party, including its deputy leader, Mehreen Faruqi, who frequently accuses Israel of committing genocide. Faruqi, a regular at anti-Israel demonstrations since October 7, attended the pro-Hezbollah rally in Sydney and\u00a0spoke<\/a>\u00a0to the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another Greens Senator attended a pro-Hezbollah rally in Adelaide, the capital city in South Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to the actions of the Greens, Foreign Minister Penny Wong\u00a0condemned<\/a>\u00a0\u201cany indication of support for a terrorist organisation such as Hizballah,\u201d adding that \u201cAll of us \u2014 including every political leader \u2013must stand together to reject terrorism and extremism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke also\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0of potential visa cancellations for any non-citizens waving the Hezbollah flag.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Opposition Home Affairs Senator James Paterson\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0the government of displaying \u201cequivocation and ambivalence in the face of an anti-Semitism crisis,\u201d and warned that unless there were consequences, \u201cthe extremism we have seen on our streets today will continue to flourish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton\u00a0reiterated<\/a>\u00a0this, saying it was \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d that there haven\u2019t been arrests yet or the cancelling of visas of people who \u201cglorify\u201d terrorist groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Australian Federal Police have also\u00a0confirmed<\/a>\u00a0that they have been asked to investigate at least six people from the pro-Hezbollah rallies in Melbourne and Sydney.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite its vast distance from Israel, Australia is experiencing, like many other countries, an explosive increase in antisemitism after the October 7 attacks. Jewish schools and other communal buildings have been forced to increase security measures that were already tight before October 7.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, there are many in the Jewish community \u2014 including Holocaust survivors \u2014 who are currently living in fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

An online WhatsApp group of 600 Jewish creatives was \u201cdoxxed\u201d by pro-Palestinian activists, causing many of them to be subjected to death threats and ongoing harassment, and others losing employment opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is simply outrageous that in a multicultural tolerant country like Australia, which also has the largest per-capita number of Holocaust survivors outside of Israel, the glorification of terrorist leaders can be so brazenly displayed and tolerated.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is imperative that governments, state and federal, and law enforcement crack down on this behavior, otherwise there is a risk to the cohesive fabric of Australian society.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Justin Amler<\/strong> is a policy analyst at the Australia\/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pro-Hezbollah Protests Are a Threat to Australian Society Justin Amler Illustrative: Supporters of Hamas gather for a rally in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Reuters\/Joel Carrett Last weekend, a large group of protestors in Melbourne and Sydney, waved Hezbollah flags and displayed photographs of assassinated Hezbollah terror chief, Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organization in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116331,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116308\/revisions\/116331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}