Key points:
- The federal government has announced a plan to make it a criminal offence to perform the Nazi salute in Australia.
- Meanwhile, hundreds of prominent Australians have signed a letter denouncing anti-Semitism and racism.
- Jewish and Islamic groups say there has been a huge rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
I kinda think this wouldn’t be a bad thing for most places to have as a law
At least now the police won’t have an excuse not to charge them next time they start saluting in the middle of Melbourne.
I’m sure next time they’ll forget to charge their handcuffs or something else to get out of it.
The world according to Lemmy/KBIN :
Nazis and Holocaust deniers, bad
Jew slaughtering Muslim terrorists, and Genocidal Islamic terrorist denial, good
The world according to Downpunx
Genocide against Jews, bad.
Genocide against Palestinians, good.
I seriously think he was sarcastic, but you are damn serious. I don’t think anyone suggest here in the federation that genocide is good. But there is opinion that even for the sake of Palestinians, or especially for the sake of Palestinians,Hamas should be gone, otherwise peace is not possible. Hamas is not somebody anyone should support if they care about future prospects for Palestinian people.
We can probably get behind the idea that Hamas shouldn’t exist.
But the act of trying to root out Hamas cannot involve the mass slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians. No, not even if Hamas is “using human shields”. And not even if those innocent civilians did support Hamas. Is it any surprise that someone might voice support for the one organisation that’s actually doing something to try to fight against the people that have been enacting a genocide against them for decades?
Since October 7th, Israel has killed ten times as many people as Hamas has. This is including human rights workers, journalists, and healthcare professionals. And that’s without even going in to the apartheid conditions Palestinians have been forced to put up with for decades before then, and all the people Israel has killed before then.
This is not a matter of some surgical strike against terrorists. It’s genocide. Genocide being committed by a nation which identifies itself strongly with the one group that you would think, given their history, should be most strongly attuned to how terrible it is to commit genocide. However, it’s important not to conflate the two. While Israel likes to think of itself as representative of all Judaism, it is not. Many Jews rightly speak out against the genocide, and criticism of Israel is not antisemitism.
Mate, we’re talking about Downpunx here.
He is 100% serious and he has come out saying he doesn’t give a shit about Palestinians and that they’re animals in the past among other fucked up things.
Look in any thread mentioning Israel or Palestine and you’ll find him there 7/10 times.
If you want to get rid of Hamas, give Palestinians equal rights. Take away their cause. Make it convenient to give up the fight and choose peace.
If you want to give Hamas more young men to fight for them, then steal their houses and blow up their mothers, sisters, and daughters.
The current government of Israel? It’s on Hamas’ side. It’s creating new recruits for them every day. It’s giving them great material to turn into propaganda. It’s escalating the violence.
