Bondi Beach paddle-out tension as Palestine, Israel protesters face off
Michael Gencher, the General Manager of Standwithus Australia, a pro -Zionist group, helped to establish counter protection in a short time. The authority said that a pro -Palestinian demonstration in Bondi due to the large Jewish population of the region is “targeted provocation ..
“I think we have ignored enough as a community. We are frightened and you know, we have experienced vandalism, graffiti and now in this wide daylight. [but] Why should we feel scared? “he said.
However, Michelle Berkon, one of the Jews against the invasions that helped to organize the protest, said that he was a Bondi local and laughed from the protest.
“If the Jews choose to support the colonial regime, this is their problem,” he said.
“They do not have the right to exclude people from their public spaces. We are also born in Jewish, Bondi, and even if I was, I have the right to come here.”
The Conservative Australian Jewish Association helped to coordinate against the event, claiming that the rowing in Bondi was “provocative ına because of the Jewish population of the eastern suburban.
Aja General Manager Robert Gregory said to the Seven News, which led the event, “Bondi is on the sidelines, everyone is tense,” and claimed that pro -Palestinian protesters were “the scourge from outside the region”.
Waverley Mayor Will Nemesh, who tried to prevent the rowing output by writing to NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley, also opposed.
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