Queensland protest arrests mirrors spread of ethnonationalism

For the first time, Protesters arrested by Queensland Police Because he used the phrase “from river to sea”.

The new state legislatures relied upon during last Wednesday’s arrests – an outright ban on the R and S words – exemplify the insistence, ever more stridently advanced by the Australian political class, that Israel is indistinguishable from the Jewish people, that Zionism is a manifestation of Judaism, not a political philosophy, and that therefore by definition anti-Zionism and antisemitism are the same.