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Nationals senator Matt Canavan has described the government’s response to rising antisemitism in Australia as a “failure”. Pro-Hamas graffiti sprayed on billboard Yesterday in Fitzroy.
“The government has failed to act from day one to remove this reprehensible incitement to violence, and that’s what these statements are. They are unlawful and the law should have been used. But from the very beginning, when we saw the current protests on the steps of the Sydney Opera House two years ago, both the federal and state governments have failed to enforce the law, effectively giving the green light to violent terrorist supporters in our midst.” in the middle.
National senator Matt Canavan.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
“And we’ve seen this kind of backlash escalate, and it’s culminated in these reprehensible graffiti. So the government has failed here, almost no one has been charged with these crimes… Where is the government response to find these people who are doing this, to charge them and to set an example?” Canavan said about Nine’s: Today Show this morning.
Canavan also lashed out at pro-Palestinian protesters who plan to demonstrate at the Opera House this weekend.
“I don’t think we should allow our national landmarks to be used in this way by people who, as I’ve said before, encourage or at least excuse acts of terrorism,” he said.
