• Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Again, why does any country who is not Israel care at all about this? Does Australia have a military base there?

    • ForgottenUsername@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Exactly, half these people are bored with nothing better to do and should be working.

      You can tell as they often are a collective with no common goal or objective other than ‘protest’. And it’s causing such division in our society with now a strong anti immigration movement cos people are getting sick of it.

      And in the end everyone loses.

      • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        3 months ago

        If you can get arrested and jailed for wearing a shirt saying “from the river to the sea”, that means your government is suppressing your free speech in service to the genocidal regime of a different country. Even if you don’t care about the genocide, the subversion of your democracy and your civil rights by a foreign power is something that any responsible citizen should be fighting against.

    • Tenderizer@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We have 100,000 Jewish people in Australia, a significant portion of which consider themselves Zionists. Anti-Zionist slogans are something the Jewish population (wrongly) finds threatening and Labor doesn’t have the political space to take the progressive side in every culture war.