Israel exploits the Bondi beach shootings

Netanyahu used the Bondi murders to weaponize antisemitism; He pressured Australia to silence Palestine and deflect scrutiny of Israel’s war. Dr. Binoy Kampmark reports.

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu rarely takes the opportunity to comment on how Jews in other countries are treated.

While manic hatred of Jews remains one of history’s strange legacies, opportunism is a ready instinct in Netanyahu’s government. With his customary sense of perversity, Netanyahu has managed to mix Israeli politics, his own political destiny, and the interests of the Jews into a terrible, terrifying mixture. The broad accusation of anti-Semitism is the preamble to this initiative and is readily apparent whenever Israeli policy requires an excuse for pursuing particularly unsavory policies such as the murder, starvation and dispossession of Gazans. the continued destruction and elimination of a functional Palestinian existence; It tries to prevent criticism of settler policies in other countries.

The murder of 15 people by father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram during Hanukkah celebrations at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach presented a political opportunity. already have accused Netanyahu prepared another verbal attack against accusations that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was “a weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australian Jews” at the beginning of the year.

thorny notes At a government meeting in Dimona, the Israeli Prime Minister accused his Australian counterpart of being a leader who “replaces weakness and appeasement with more appeasement.” His “The call for a Palestinian state fuels antisemitic fire.”

He rewarded “Hamas terrorists” and encouraged “Those who threaten Australian Jews and promote Jew hatred are currently prowling your streets.”

Other Israeli politicians also concluded that an immeasurable but monstrous anti-Semitism was rampant on the island continent and gave rise to the Bondi murders. “We felt and experienced intense antisemitism towards the Jewish community in Australia.” requested Ofir Sofer, Minister of Aliyah and Integration. Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli thought It would be appropriate to send a “delegation of experts on emergency response” to Australia. “We will stand with the Jewish community in this difficult time and make sure that we, as the State of Israel, give them everything we can.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar had a list of lecture topics for his Australian counterpart Penny Wong. It was supposed to happen, it was stated with teaching certainty, “a real change in the public atmosphere.” This required weeding out phrases and expressions expressed in public debates and protests on behalf of the Palestinian cause.

“Calls such as ‘Globalize the Intifada’, ‘From River to Sea Palestine Will Be Free’, ‘Death to the IDF’ are illegitimate, not part of freedom of expression and inevitably lead to what we are witnessing today.”

The acceptance of such positions and the dilution of the Palestinian cause quickly became normalized in Australia. A number of commentators continued to reluctantly state that the Israeli government’s policy could only be criticized to show how narrow this latitude was.

This harsh, unbearable description, offered Jeremy Leibler from the Zionist Federation of Australia:

“Australians may criticize Israeli government policy, Israelis do so loudly and violently themselves. But it is an entirely different thing to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist, or to slide into a moral equivalence between a liberal democracy defending its citizens and a terrorist organization targeting civilians.”

Leibler’s semantic technique is important here; It forcibly links those who claim that Israel has no right to exist to those who criticize Israel’s policy of self-defense after October 7, 2023, which killed 68,000 Palestinians, destroyed Gaza, and left a settlement without life support. This is a policy implemented at the instigation of South Africa. reviewed It was considered potentially genocide by the International Court of Justice. This is an implemented policy sort of Genocide and notable human rights findings by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry into the Occupied Palestinian Territories organizationsIncluding the Israeli group B’Tselem. Arrest warrants were also issued Issue Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court, citing allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Establishment voices from a long-moribund press class also argue that not enough is being done by the Albanian government to combat the so-called frenzied epidemic of anti-Semitism, seemingly unique from other jostling hatreds. (Is there Islamophobia?) Massacre according to unproven information observation by veteran journalist Michelle Grattan “It is the terrible culmination of the epidemic of antisemitism that is spreading like wildfire across Australia.”

With strong disapproval, he noted the lack of “official” response to the attackers. strategy This proposal, proposed by anti-Semitism ambassador Jillian Segal, clearly acknowledges the stifling stance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition from antisemitism. Official adoption of this definition (a point emphasized by Kenneth Stern, the creator of this definition) would be a fashionable spear. against Freedom of expression, censorship of genuine criticism of Israeli policies.

Jerusalem DeclarationOn the contrary, he underlines the hostility towards the state of Israel:

“…it could be an expression of anti-Semitism, it could be a reaction to a human rights violation, or it could be the emotion a Palestinian feels about his experiences with the state.”

Like most journalists beholden to scriptural press briefings and dry political interviews, Grattan shows no sign of having attended a single protest denouncing the bloody death toll in Gaza or any meetings advancing the validity of Palestinians’ right to self-determination. Wool-headed, speculating freely.

“Most of us were unaware of this fact, but this anti-Semitic sentiment must have become entrenched in some sections of Australian society; Hamas’ attack on Israel in October 2023 was the spark that ignited the fire.”

The ridiculousness of trying to understand the attacks at Bondi is evident in assessments of various protest marches and demonstrations on Australian university campuses. He claims the following without even providing any evidence: “college camps” proven “It is scary for Jewish students and staff.” Not to mention the Jewish students and staff who were mysteriously more than willing to attend these camps.

Harassment, suspension and censorship efforts by stupid university administrators students Voicing pro-Palestinian causes also doesn’t seem to interest Grattan.

He lazily dismisses examples of propaganda provided by Israel’s promotional relations kiosk and cites unnamed “others” who believe that the Albanian government’s recognition of a Palestinian state fuels local antisemitism.

Foreign Minister Wong’s failure “When he went to Israel early last year, he was highly criticized in the Jewish community for visiting the sites of the 2023 atrocities.”

So far, Israeli propagandists have shamelessly bullied their opponents into accepting a distorted narrative that cannot stand up to legal, let alone historical scrutiny. The agenda is clear enough: inoculate Israel against international humiliation. If he and his ministers can find it, much will now depend on Albanese’s courage.