“Overnight, we learned that nearly 3 ,000 Palestinians have been evaporated by Israel using illegal US weapons
But instead of focusing on that, our political and media classes are trying to distract the masses by focusing on words that I said at a peaceful protest on Monday night in Sydney
Disingenuously distorting definitions has been a cornerstone of Israel’s propaganda strategy for decades
Choosing to put a negative spin on the word intifada, which literally means shaking off, is just another example of that
But I am not the story
The story is that on Monday night, tens of thousands of peaceful protesters gathered to decry the arrival of Israel’s President Isaac Herzog who himself stands credibly accused of war crimes, including inciting genocide and advocating collective punishment
A man who signed his name on bombs that were used to kill men, women and children in Gaza
The non -violent attendees of these protests were met with unprovoked police brutality
Our leaders go on about social cohesion
What’s a better example of social cohesion than tens of thousands of people from many and diverse backgrounds gathering united in the pursuit of humanity?
This has been a trend for years and years and years
The only thing that has changed that is actively disrupting social cohesion is the overreach of state powers which we all saw footage of from Monday night
If the media had accurately reported on this context, we wouldn’t be here
The big issue at hand is that the rogue apartheid state of Israel stands credibly accused of committing genocide in Gaza
After over two years of the slaughter of innocent civilians, the only parties to have faced punishment are the victims themselves and critics of the state
This has to change
It is time for the political and media classes to prosecute the state of Israel and not focus on individual dissidents and people fighting for justice and humanity”