Australia is a colony of convicts which ‘grew’ into a nation of wardens.
Authoritarian states will always side with their peers over their citizens.
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What the actual fuck!
Israel is committing a genocide and what hold do they have over the entire world that we’re not allowed to talk about it?
American here: we played this game leading up to our last election. Don't let them get away with this. Remember the power of truth in your words. Keep calling this a genocide.
That's a lot of words to say yes
Well, guess I can no longer act all smug to Americans online
E: obligatory Israel is committing a genocide
Israel is committing a genocide.
Zionism is a hate ideology.
Zionist ≠ Jew
Zionist = Nazi
Palestine > Israel
I'll be honest, I really never understood this zionist thing. How come they have so much power over protestant countries? the wiki says its a movement to establish a jew only land in current Palestine.
A Jewish homeland being restored around Jerusalem is meant to be one of the signs of the apocalypse. Christians want nothing more than the world to end. Its a huge part of the religion.
Let me say that I do believe that the Israeli government is committing genocide. And they believe they are too. They've said the quiet part out loud. They don't want to live in peace with the Palestinians.
So you just say, Israel is committing genocide (it's ok to be jewish/Israeli).
It is not okay to be Israeli
No. Just because you live in iseral doesnt mean you support your govenment.
It's an odd premise, and ideally Rowland would have noticed and objected to the question.
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.
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.
And yet the position of the government seems to disagree with you.
Which is precisely why the law is so problematic.
The law was explicitly created for this. Israel succesfully weaponized the Bondi shooting to ban criticism of Israel.
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
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
That is a really shitty way to do captions.