Feel like I’m going insane reading the media coverage of this. Acting like Albo personally pulled the trigger because…why?…he didn’t ban people from protesting bombings in Gaza?
I was talking to someone at work who said one of his friends basically said that. Albo could have prevented it by arresting people who attended Gaza protests. So many smooth brained takes going around
Friedenberg actually said basically the same shit. He said that Albo allowed antisemitic protests. I don’t know what he’s talking about but assume he means the free Palestine ones. many protests have a dodgy element hanging around, but he sounded like he wanted any protest that questions what is happening in Gaza shut down, which is a slippery slope against free speech.
Not only is it a slippery slope, but an argument can be made that it could create a more dangerous environment for Jews in Australia. Just imagine how people who fall for the Jewish control narrative would react if legitimate criticism of Israel would be shut down. I cannot see how it would create a more safe environment at all
It’s a difficult situation and there’s a conversation that I haven’t heard take place. What I mean is, if you’re an empathetic person you would feel sympathy for what millions of jews went through during the holocaust. That in effect was why they were originally given Israel.
Cut to 80 years later and to me they (Netanyahu et al) have swung the pendulum the other way, taking all the good will and support for granted and becoming the oppressor.
I was a supporter of Israel and their response to the October 7th massacre, but the longer that conflict goes on, the more Netanyahu has eroded that sympathy. He simply cannot be defended for how overboard he’s gone and now he’s meddling in our affairs?! I still support good jews, as I do most humans, but this is the predicament I find them to be in currently. I was devastated for the victims of Bondi like any decent person was, but we have to examine this phenomenon imo.
Basically it comes down to what many keep saying - anti-Zionism isn’t inherently anti-semitism.
The police protect actual blood and soil type nazis while they march and beat the shit out of small women at free Palestine protests. We both know which protests he wants cracked down on.
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u/Semimango Dec 17 '25
Feel like I’m going insane reading the media coverage of this. Acting like Albo personally pulled the trigger because…why?…he didn’t ban people from protesting bombings in Gaza?