Andrew Bolt: Why are pro-Palestine pleas for peace lost in so much hate?

Pro-Palestinian protests have become a clash of civilisations, with many on the identity-politics Left on the side of barbarity and genocide.

We’re now getting a taste of what Israel is up against.
It’s no coincidence that pro-Palestinian protests here are so likely to be violent, destructive, abusive and threatening.

This really is a clash of civilisations, with many on the identity-politics Left on the side of barbarity and genocide.

Take the latest protest, at Sydney’s Port Botany on Tuesday, which got so out of hand and anti-police that 23 people were arrested for refusing to clear the way.

Add them to the list, including the 11 people arrested for chanting “gas the Jews” at the Sydney Opera House, and other alleged crimes.

Or the man arrested for allegedly threatening to kill four boys holding Israeli flags.

Or the three protesters arrested outside the Melbourne Cup.

The latest protest at Sydney’s Port Botany got so out of hand and anti-police that 23 people were arrested for refusing to clear the way. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Add them to the people not yet charged who assaulted Jews in Caulfield, who painted: “Kill the Jews” on the fence outside a Jewish home, who attacked a 72-year-old Jewish man outside his Melbourne synagogue, and who dragged a man carrying an Israeli flag off his bike in Chapel St and punched and kicked him. Add also the protesters who rallied outside a Caulfield synagogue and screamed abuse at Jews.

Or the ones who vandalised McDonald’s and Starbucks stores with anti-Israel stickers and fake blood.

Or the ones who chased an Anglican priest carrying an Israeli flag.

And add even the thousands who have chanted “free Palestine, from the river to the sea” – a genocidal cry for the destruction of Israel, home of seven million Jews.

Contrast that with pro-Israel protesters. The only one I can think of who’s been arrested in the past six weeks is a Jew waving an Israeli flag who police removed for fear that pro-Palestinian protesters would attack him, too.

Says it all. And, like I say, no coincidence.

Take the Port Botany protesters. Hundreds once more turned up on Tuesday, many cos-playing in indigenous costume – in this case the traditional keffiyehs of Palestinians – and waving Palestinian flags, trying to stop the arrival of a container ship owned by an Israel company laughably accused of transporting “weapons of mass destruction”.

But facts don’t count to enemies of the West, which got wickedly rich by inventing logic and the scientific method. And when facts and reason don’t count, what else do have but lies, violence and victimhood to get your way?

The keffiyeh is now the fashion statement of the radical chic. Picture: AFP

The keffiyeh is telling. It is now the fashion statement of the radical chic, and this faux indigenous angle is what makes the Palestinian cause, as defined by Hamas, the cause of the day for our militant Left.

Just see how hard Palestinian activists and supporters work that indigenous angle, as if Palestinians, not Jews, were the first to settle in the lands around Jerusalem and erect a temple there.

Palestinian activist Nasser Mashni appeared on the ABC’s Q&A wearing a badge with the Palestinian and Aboriginal flags entwined.

Larissa Baldwin, head of the far-Left GetUp lobby group, turned up on Q&A with earrings in Aboriginal colours and a Palestinian scarf, declaring “for First Nations people there is an incredible solidarity here”.

Er, but aren’t the Jews closer to being the “First Nations” of Jerusalem than the Palestinians?

Well, if you insist on Western concepts of truth, yes. But in the madness of the Left’s new identity politics and cult of victimhood, no.

If these Port Botany protesters are just desperate for peace, why do their own protests show so much hate. Picture: Dylan Robinson

You see, Jews are usually white, or whiter than Palestinians and, to the tribal Left, white is the colour of oppressors and colonialists, and brown the colour of their victims.

Besides, the Jews of Israel are capitalists and the Palestinians are poor.

Never mind that they’re poor by the toxic choices of their leaders.
To the Left, the poor are always right and the rich always guilty.

This childish reductionism works. As NSW chief commissioner Police Commissioner Karen Webb said of the Port Botany protesters: “Most or a great large number were professional protesters who currently are protesting about the Gaza conflict but next week, they’ll probably protest about something else”.

You can guess that “something else”. It would be something anti-American, anti-Australian, anti-capitalist or anti-Christian.
Or global warming, the scare exploited by the Left to attack the West, hated by people scared of freedom and individuality.

But for now the Palestinians, led by Jew-hating Islamist Hamas, are useful proxies for attacking not just Israel, but the West – the enemy of Hamas, too.

If you think I’m unfair, and these Port Botany protesters are just desperate for peace, then ask why their own protests show so much hate.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Why are pro-Palestine pleas for peace lost in so much hate?