Police brutality at Sydney Herzog protest prove ‘social cohesion’ lie

In one evening, the brutal violence of police under the increasingly Bjelke-like Minns government against protesters in response to the visit of the Israeli president comprehensively demolished the lie of “social harmony” in NSW.

Banned from protesting, surveilled, attacked, blockaded in an effort to shut down the CBD, condemned and delegitimized by police and politicians – protests”not australianProtesters objecting to Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s presence on Australian soil were confronted by the full force of the state apparatus in scenes similar to the actions of ICE agents in the US, according to the NSW deputy police commissioner.