Criticism of a country's actions (and in fact, it's really an implied criticism of a regime and its military) is not a threat to Jewish Australians. It may frustrate Zionists, but Zionism is a political movement, it is not a nation, religion or ethnicity. If a Zionist happens to be a Jewish Australian, it is coincidence - I know plenty of Australian Zionists who are not Jewish, and I know plenty of Jewish Australians who are anti-Zionist.

For an analogy, the interviewer's question would be as ridiculous as someone asking if it would be illegal to claim the historic Nazi regime committed genocide of Jewish, Slavic, Romani, etc. peoples, and as a result made "white" Australians feel intimidated.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

and as a result made “white” Australians feel intimidated.

I'd say it's more if it was said to make German-Australians feel intimidated, rather than all the white ones. My Irish-Scottish grandparents were all in WW2 fighting against the Nazis in some manner. I'd never call a German friend out for Germany's Nazi history as that's not them as a person. Much like I wouldn't call out a Australian-Jewish friend for Israel's (Netanyahu's) actions today.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And yet the position of the government seems to disagree with you.

Which is precisely why the law is so problematic.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

The law was explicitly created for this. Israel succesfully weaponized the Bondi shooting to ban criticism of Israel.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It does seem, law as written, that this is the case, even to the Nazi extreme. That's because it was a knee-jerk hastily, badly, written piece of legislation that was ~~passed~~ rammed through with the help of the Liberals, always a bad sign.

That's the generous position, less generously it could have been sitting there waiting for an excuse (never let a good crisis go to waste and all that), intended to further dampen and complicate the right to protest.

ETA: “Those who made peaceful reform impossible have made violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

that coincidence is very highly probable given the vast majority of israelis and zionists are jewish, hence the problem

and the softer version of zionism and israeli nationalism is something most western governments deem totally legal