Exploiting a Massacre to Cover Up a Genocide
Zionists have wasted little time blaming anti-genocide activists for the horrendous attack on innocent people in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, in order to obscure Israel’s ongoing crimes in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
The 15 innocent victims killed in Sunday’s terrorist attack on a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia are being exploited by extreme Zionists in a bid to distract from Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Their memories are being used by the likes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli as well as Australian officials, sections of the media and members of the public.
Instead of putting the blame on the only known perpetrators police have identified so far — the father and son shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram — Zionist extremists are implicating innocent citizens who have dared protest Israeli atrocities.
Addressing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Netanyahu said: “I called upon you to replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve. Instead, prime minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement.”
He said Albanese “did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia, you did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country.”
Netanyahu said he wrote to Albanese earlier this year because his “call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
In response to Netanyahu, Albanese vowed to “eradicate” hatred of Jews. “We will do whatever is necessary to stamp out antisemitism,” he said on Monday. “It is a scourge and we will eradicate it together.”
But how exactly can a government end a vile belief that some people hold? It cannot be legislated or beaten out of them. And how might the anti-semitism of other Australians be responsible for the anti-semitism or other motive of the shooters, about which police have so far said nothing?
The answer is that Netanyahu doesn’t want Albanese to “end” anti-semitism — which he can’t — but to end the protests against Netanyahu’s genocidal rampage in Gaza, which have been falsely labeled anti-semitic.
Netanyahu was joined by Israeli President Issac Herzog, who said: “Time and again we called on the Australian government to take action and fight against the enormous wave of anti-semitism that is plaguing Australian society.”
Sharren Haskel, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, told Sky News Australia “this is what it means” to permit demonstrators to chant “‘globalize the intifada’ … if you let that continue and run in your streets” you are asking for more terrorism, she said, directly linking the protestors to terrorists. Haskel had earlier called anti-genocide protesters in Australia “useful idiots” for Hamas.
Extreme Australian Reactions
Jillian Segal, Australia’s special envoy to combat anti-semitism, issued an alarming statement, blaming anti-genocide protesters for what happened on the beach. She said:
“This did not come without warning. In Australia, it began on 9 October 2023 at the Sydney Opera House. We then watched a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge waving terrorist flags and glorifying extremist leaders. Now death has reached Bondi Beach. These are Australian icons. Targeting them is deliberate. This is not random. It is an attack on Australia.”
The Opera House protest was the first in Sydney against Israel’s response to Oct. 7. Police rejected the allegation that there were chants of “Gas the Jews” at that protest even though that falsehood is still repeated, including by the Israeli deputy foreign minister in her Sky News interview. (Consortium News‘ Cathy Vogan filmed the opera house protest and her video helped police to determine that the chant of “Gas the Jews” was not heard.)
The Harbour Bridge march was a major protest on Aug. 3 this year against Israel’s genocidal Gaza campaign with as many as 300,000 people taking part. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare public appearance at the march.
Alongside him was Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who is in federal court accused by the Zionist Federation of Australia of antisemitism because of her social media reporting critical of Israel.
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