Many protesters are seemingly unfazed that this war was started by the Hamas terrorist group

The picture is becoming clearer. Backing the Hamas-led Palestinians are many tribalists in revolt against the West, including race-baiters, eco-alarmists and Marxists.

It’s telling that so many anti-Israel protesters are tribalists who share a hatred of the West and its most distinctive values – freedom and individuality.

This is not really a peace protest.

As the Middle Eastern saying goes: “After Saturday comes Sunday.” After the Jews, then the Christians. On in this case, the free West.

Start with the core protesters.

Many are Muslims, seemingly unfazed that this war was started by the Hamas terrorist group when it brutally slaughtered 1400 Jews three weeks ago.

Pro-Palestine protesters at a rally in Melbourne. Picture: David Crosling

Not one prominent Muslim group has condemned Hamas for the mass murder, rapes, torture and kidnappings.

Indeed, some Sydney Muslims celebrated with fireworks; imam Ibrahim Dadoun shouted he was “elated”; some protesters chanted “gas the Jews”; Sydney University academic Fahad Ali told a protest: “I’m not going to stand before you and shed tears over the settlers.”

To repeat: after Saturday comes Sunday.

Hamas is funded by the Islamic fascist regime of Iran, which also calls for “death to America”.

A Hamas delegation last week flew to Russia, now switching its support from Israel in hope more Muslim nations will in return back its invasion of democratic and Christian Ukraine.

Also among the anti-Israel protesters are Aboriginal race-mongers such as Senator Lidia Thorpe, who wore a Palestinian scarf in parliament when she likened white Australia to Israel as an ‘illegal occupier”.

Senator Lidia Thorpe wearing a Palestinian scarf in parliament. Picture: AFP

Larissa Baldwin-Roberts, the far-Left GetUp boss, teamed her own Palestinian scarf with Aboriginal-styled earrings on the ABC’s Q&A, and said chanting for Israel’s destruction “from the river to the sea” was not “hate speech” but a “call for freedom”.

Then there’s the Greens, so hostile to capitalism and the United States. Greens senators wore Palestinian scarfs, and voted against denouncing Hamas.

Many other global warming zealots also side against capitalist Israel. Warming priestess Greta Thunberg tweeted a picture of herself holding a sign: “Stand with Palestine.”

Then there’s the hard-Left, also anti-Israel. The National Tertiary Education Union demanded Israel stop fighting back and accused it of “apartheid and ethnic cleansing”.

The picture is becoming clearer. Backing the Hamas-led Palestinians are many tribalists in revolt against the West, including race-baiters, eco-alarmists and Marxists.

These are internal enemies of our values of freedom, including economic freedom. We also now face external enemies – a new alliance of anti-Western authoritarian regimes, comprising Iran, Russia and China.

At stake is not just Israel. This, like the war in Ukraine, is also a battle for Western civilisation.