MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 8
th, 2024 at 12:16pm:
Frank wrote on Feb 8
th, 2024 at 10:41am:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 8
th, 2024 at 8:30am:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 7
th, 2024 at 10:04pm:
The chant of the protesters was three lines, not one...
"Gas the Jews, Where's the Jews, F~ck the Jews".
It's clear the police erred for the sake of the good over the true.
What was the good?
The preservation of public order by its contributing to the incident blowing over.
The cowardly hypochrisy is stratospheric. Yours, the police's and especially the Muslims'.
Remember the hundreds of Middle Eastern men who last October swarmed on the Sydney Opera House days after the mass murder of Israeli civilians by Hamas? They were exuberant and triumphant but also indignant. Not at Hamas – quite the opposite, actually – but at the NSW government’s decision to project the colours of the Israeli flag on the building as a show of support.
They expressed their anger by lighting flares, burning an Israeli flag, and chanting anti-Semitic slogans. The police response was to let them run riot and to warn members of the Jewish community to stay away to ensure their safety. In fact the only person arrested that night was a businessman carrying a rolled-up Israeli flag near a pro-Palestine Town Hall rally. His showing solidarity for Israelis constituted a potential breach of the peace, he was told.And according to some, we did a grave injustice to those angry men waving Palestinian and Lebanese flags. It was reported at the time, and video footage seemed to confirm, that some were chanting “Gas the Jews”. But as announced last week, police dispute this. Citing what they say is an expert analysis of audio recordings, they claim there is no evidence that phrase was uttered. Instead, police stand by the audio expert’s conclusion the protesters were chanting “Where’s the Jews’.
But hang on, did not police have signed statements from several witnesses who heard the protesters say, “Gas the Jews”? Yes, said NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon. However, the witnesses could not ascribe those words to an individual. What’s more, he said, police would not be going back to the witnesses, given their expert’s “overwhelming certainty” about what was said. A case of ‘computer says no’, you could say.
Not surprisingly, the high dudgeon and hypocrisy that followed reached stratospheric levels. According to the president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, this video was used to “sow discord and hate towards Palestinians and our supporters”. Claiming the subtitled video was “faked,” he called for politicians and media outlets that had relied on it “to spread hate and fear” to apologise. Theirs was a campaign “to discredit and vilify protesters,” he said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/think-the-sydney-opera-house-chant-w...The Muslims swamp a Jewish memorial of hundreds killed, chant, rave, burn flags - and then claim victimhood for themselves.
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