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We just had a Zionist in our armed forces who admitted to willingly wanting to give state secrets to Israel and its antisemitism that’s the problem?
Give me a break mr.spy chief, look into how a foreign nation like Israel has so much influence on our shores and what all these Zionist terrorists are doing.
It is interesting to compare JPosts Zionist propaganda interpretation of this to The Conversation and ABCs rational and balanced reporting on the issue.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-19/asio-foreign-nations-plot-murder-critics-australia/104956548
What an odd way of saying "Israel's actions and the international response to them have radicalised a whole new slew of people"
Also fascists are staging a coup in the sole superpower, but let's not plan on decoupling our military, intelligence, and IT apparatus from them... Let's worry about the predictable response to another fascist allies active genocide.
These brainwashed nationalist dinosaurs will be the death of all our freedoms.
Call me sheltered or out-of-touch, but this antisemitism that we're seeing lately seems to have exploded from obscurity.
Even in the first while after the latest round of Israel/Palestine conflicts there seemed to be just the usual/expected amount of hate and bigotry from extremist dickheads on both sides until these last 6 months or so.
Is it all really genuine? Or is it just getting reported on a hell of a lot more?
Again, it could just be my sheltered middle-aged white ass, but I get a sense that the vast majority of Aussies are just tired of people dying in this conflict. Why would anyone think acting up on Australian soil is going to change anything over there?
Is it all really genuine?
The only recent acts of antisemitism (not to be conflated with anti-Zionism) are from fringe neo-nazis (who have always been racist pricks) and a wave of vandalism and arson which, so far, appear to have been done for pay rather than sincere political motivation, with police saying they're looking into foreign actors funding them.
All that to say, I doubt it's genuine. The rest of the things I've seen called antisemitism in the mass media are simply protesting against the Zionist Regime ('Israel'), which disingenuously attempts to conflate itself with all Jewish peoples.
It's always been there. 15 years ago about 1/2 of my business was from Jewish clients. So many people quietly pulled me aside and warned me about working for them. The Israel/Palestine conflict has given the haters permission to hate on all Jews for the actions of a specific group.
the vast majority of Aussies are just tired of people dying in this conflict
vast majority of Australians don't care about Gaza at all tbh, wouldn't even be in top 10