{"id":118000,"date":"2024-12-29T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118000"},"modified":"2024-12-27T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:40:55","slug":"29-00-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118000","title":{"rendered":"\u2018May 2025 Be the End of Israel\u2019: Australian Writer Calls for Destruction of Jewish State to Mark New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018May 2025 Be the End of Israel\u2019: Australian Writer Calls for Destruction of Jewish State to Mark New Year<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Illustrative: Supporters of Hamas gather for a rally in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Reuters\/Joel Carrett<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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An award-winning Australian writer has called for the\u00a0destruction of Israel<\/a>\u00a0and the \u201cdeath cult of Zionism\u201d in what was apparently meant to be a message of hope and optimism for the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMay 2025 be the end of Israel. May it be the end of the US-Israeli imperial scourge on humanity. May we see the abolishment of the death cult of Zionism and the end of US empire and finally a world where the slaughter, annihilation, and torture of Palestinians is no longer daily routine,\u201d Randa Abdel-Fattah posted on X\/Twitter on Wednesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to achieve that,\u201d she continued, \u201cis to snowball collective liberation because the tentacles of Western imperialism oppress and dehumanize us all. May every baby slaughtered in Zionism\u2019s genocide haunt you who openly support or acquiesce through your gutless silence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdel-Fattah\u2019s tweet came in response to a social media post by the Turkish public broadcaster TRT World saying that three newborn Palestinian babies died from extreme cold in Gaza, where Israel has been fighting Hamas since the Palestinian terrorist group invaded the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdel-Fattah, a lawyer and Future Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University in Sydney, is one of Australia\u2019s most prominent pro-Palestinian activists. She has also written 12 books, for which she has won multiple awards..<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Australian Jewish Association<\/a>\u00a0lambasted Abdel-Fattah for her comments, responding that \u201cevil hate speech like this has no place in Australia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"\"Australian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah. Photo: Screenshot<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday was not the first time that Abdel-Fattah came under fire for her anti-Israel activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October, the New South Wales Police Force posted on social media saying it would not tolerate flags of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah or portraits of its leaders at anti-Israel protests. The message was displayed in blue and white, coincidentally the colors of the Israeli flag \u2014 a point noted by Abdel-Fattah.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBrought to you in the colors of Israel\u2019s flag,\u201d the writer responded, appearing to insinuate without evidence that the Australian police force was acting on behalf of the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n

That same month, Abdel-Fattah penned an op-ed in which she accused Israel of \u201cindustrialized genocide, domicide, scholasticide, infanticide, femicide, medicide, and ecocide\u201d in Gaza and described the Israeli state as \u201cstolen land.\u201d The writer also falsely accused Israel of seeking to expand its territory into Lebanon and Syria and posted messages from group chats that she was part of expressing excitement during Hamas\u2019s massacre across southern Israel last Oct. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n

The academic, who reportedly receives an $802,000 taxpayer-funded grant for her research, in April led a \u201cGaza Solidarity Encampment<\/a>\u201d for \u201call ages\u201d at Sydney University to \u201cinspire\u201d children to \u201cstand up for justice and solidarity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Footage showed Abdel-Fattah clapping and encouraging children as they chanted slogans including \u201cintifada,\u201d \u201cIsrael\u00a0is a terrorist,\u201d and \u201cfrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201d \u2014 a popular slogan among anti-Israel activists that has been widely interpreted as a call for the destruction of the Jewish state, which is located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdel-Fattah\u2019s activism has come amid a surge in antisemitism across Australia since Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 atrocities, amid the ensuing war in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, for example,\u00a0arsonists heavily damaged a synagogue<\/a>\u00a0in Melbourne in what the country\u2019s prime minister called an antisemitic attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack followed the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) releasing a report showing that\u00a0antisemitism in Australia quadrupled<\/a>\u00a0to record levels over the past year, with Australian Jews experiencing more than 2,000 antisemitic incidents between October 2023 and September 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

The data included dozens of assaults and hundreds of incidents of property destruction and hate speech. Physical assaults recorded by the group jumped from 11 in 2023 to 65 in 2024. The level of antisemitism for the past year was six times the average of the preceding 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one notorious episode in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack, hundreds of pro-Hamas protesters gathered outside the Sydney Opera House chanting \u201cgas the Jews,\u201d \u201cf\u2014k the Jews,\u201d and other epithets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The explosion of hate also included vandalism and threats of gun violence, as well as incidents such as a\u00a0brutal attack on a Jewish man<\/a>\u00a0in a park in Sydney.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the antisemitic outrages documented by the ECAJ appeared to be connected to anti-Israel animus.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June, the\u00a0US consulate in Sydney was vandalized<\/a>\u00a0and defaced by a man carrying a sledgehammer who smashed the windows and graffitied inverted red triangles on the building. The inverted red triangle has become a common symbol at pro-Hamas rallies. The Palestinian terrorist group, which rules Gaza, has used inverted red triangles in its propaganda videos to indicate Israeli targets about to be attacked. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), \u201cthe red triangle is now used to represent Hamas itself and glorify its use of violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That same month, the office of Australian lawmaker Josh Burns was vandalized, with the perpetrators shattering windows, lighting fires, and graffitiing \u201cZionism is Fascism\u201d on the building.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weeks later, multiple memorials near the Australian War Memorial were\u00a0defaced with anti-Israel graffiti<\/a>. The messages included \u201cFree Palestine,\u201d \u201cFree Gaza,\u201d \u201cBlood on your hands,\u201d and \u201cFrom the river to the sea.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Around the same time in July, anti-Israel activists vandalized the oldest synagogue in Sydney, displaying a large banner outside the front entrance reading \u201cSanction Israel,\u201d along with flags of the Palestine Liberation Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in April that Canberra would consider recognizing a Palestinian state. The current government has also walked back the decision by the previous Liberal Party government to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Australia voted in favor of a\u00a0UN General Assembly resolution<\/a> calling on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza, breaking a two-decade pattern of opposing such a measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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