Andrew Bolt: Ignorant, hypocritical anti-Israel protesters a menace to our civilisation as much as Israel’s

The anti-Israel protesters swarming our streets – many of them educated Leftists – are ignorant of history, contemptuous of truth, and blind to hypocrisy.

Here’s how to tell if the anti-Israel protester in your life is an idiot – an ignorant hypocrite who’s a menace to our own civilisation as much as Israel’s.

They claim: Israel is a “colonial” power.

False. It’s instead Islam that is the colonial power. Jews have lived in Israel for 3000 years and Islam was invented only 1400 years ago.

Anti-Israel protesters gathered in Melbourne. Picture: NewsWire

They claim: Israel is “genocidal”.

False. It’s instead Hamas which is genocidal. Its founding charter calls for Israel to be wiped out, and Hamas terrorists on October 7 went door to door in Israeli kibbutzes, murdering Jewish civilians. Israel, in contrast, warns civilians to get away from its targets.

They claim: Israel is an “apartheid state”.

False. It’s instead some Muslim countries that are apartheid states. Algeria had about 140,000 Jews, but then denied them citizenship, and now has just 200. Since 1948, Iraq has gone from 150,000 Jews to four; Yemen from 63,000 to one; Libya from 38,000 to none.

In contrast, 18 per cent of Israelis are Muslim, with the same rights.

They claim: Jews drove Palestinians out of Palestine in 1948.

False. There never was a Palestinian nation. Before Israel there was a British mandate, and before that the area was Turkish.

A man is restrained by police during the anti-Israel rally in Melbourne. Picture: NewsWire

When Israel was created in 1948, under a United Nations plan, Muslim armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia tried to destroy it. About 500,000 Palestinians fled Israel to escape the fighting, although some were evicted from villages threatening Israel’s security. About 160,000 chose to stay in Israel.

They claim: from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free.

That chant, used by the Hamas terrorist group, calls for the removal of all Israel. Anyone chanting that is in effect insisting on war – the end of the only Jewish state, and the home of half the Jews in the world.

A protester waves a large Palestinian flag during a Pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne. Picture: NewsWire

You get the picture. We see now in our streets people – many of them educated Leftists – ignorant of history, contemptuous of truth, and blind to hypocrisy.

Last October 7 we learned what the Palestinian “resistance” would do if Israel had no army or was caught unawares. We saw the rapes, with some Hamas terrorists issued language guides with instructions in Hebrew: “Take off your pants”. We saw the murders.

How blind and dumb must protesters be to chant what I hear?

Listen to them. It’s not just Israel that’s threatened by barbarism.