There’s a guy here in Australia, Josh Freydenberg, who was a member of a past conservative federal government, who happens to be Jewish, and who, in comments made at the scene of the Bondi Beach shooting, called for more laws, harsher penalties, and that our anti-war, anti-genocide, pro-peace demonstrations be banned. According to this man, we promote hate. In a few words, he is demanding that the nation committing genocide not be called to account for its crimes against humanity. Link below is to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) report.
The two men who carried out the attack are suspected of links to ISIS, which makes sense; random attacks are the modus operandi of that organisation. The purpose is to generate hate between communities, irrational, verbal diarrhoea full of victimhood, and calls for savage revenge. Then along came Ahmed al Ahmed, the Muslim saving Jewish lives, and ripped up the hate script.
My father was sixteen when the Nazis rolled tanks into his village in 1940. He didn’t run; he didn’t hide; he joined the resistance. Physically, he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, mentally, a lifelong battle with Post Traumatic Stress. A cousin of his died in a concentration camp, and yet, later in life, he never expressed any hate towards the Germans. The Nazis, yes, the enemy, and to the Nazis, my father and his comrades were terrorists. I know, were he alive today, he would demonstrate in Sydney with us, because those who were combatants hate war more than anyone.
There are others experiencing fear today, the school kids who will get their end-of-secondary-school results. Good luck and blessings to all, and apologies for the state of your planet.