Israel and Palestine...and Australia
Another multicultural success story, for some. [4 Minute Read]
An amazing burst of life has swept through Australia’s political class, and personally, I find it inspiring.
This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s party has patriotically projected the Australian flag onto Sydney’s Opera House and called in advance for a planned anti-Australian opposition march to be ‘abandoned’, not to be outdone, opposition leader Peter Dutton has since called for the deportation of the subversive protestors who chanted anti-Australian slogans in front of the lit-up Opera House.
Well… not quite. I have to admit that previous paragraph was almost entirely false: The Labor Party did not project the Australian flag on to the Opera House this week, that would be Israel’s flag. Similarly it was not anti-Australian protestors the PM and opposition leader condemned and threatened with deportation, that would be anti-Israel protestors.
But I wasn’t lying when I said I found the actions of our political class this week inspiring.
I am inspired imagining what a truly Australia first leader could do with these powers. Unfortunately for now, this is only a fantasy, our current Australian government seems eager to project anything but Australian patriotic symbols onto the Opera House and anti-Australian protestors are being given their own constitutionally-enshrined advisory body!
This recent middle-eastern conflict has drawn attention to the stark problems of multiculturalism as a concept, curiously many who have spent their whole career defending the concept strangely seem extremely discontented and confused with this policy’s logical conclusion - ethnic conflict. For decades now, warnings of the faults and dangers of multiculturalism and diversity have gone unheeded across the Anglosphere. Whether we look to history or data, the reality is obvious to anyone untainted by progressive liberalism: multicultural societies will never be harmonious societies.
Case in point, Israelis and Palestinians with strong ethnic loyalties have not, are not and will not create a peaceful society when living together. The same is true of Russians and Ukrainians, Indians and Pakistanis, Lebanese and Anglo-Celts, the list goes on.
Thankfully, in the past week Australian leaders have finally come to their senses and have hurriedly set about remedying this multicultural dilemma. NSW premier Chris Minns has called on NSW Police to investigate and press charges against those in attendance at Sydney’s recent pro-Palestine rally, and Liberal party leader Peter Dutton has called for the deportation of any attendee without citizenship.
Well…once giant this is not quite the truth. The bipartisan reaction against pro-Palestine supporters in Australia is unfortunately not a reaction to the failures of multiculturalism itself, instead they appear to come as a result of the specific group being targeted. The reaction against individuals with anti-Israel or pro-Palestine sentiments stands in stark contrast to the pathetic bickering that has historically surrounded calls for similar government policies to be enacted in the interest of regular Australians. Pauline Hanson and Fraser Anning’s calls for immigration restrictionism saw them labelled both labelled ‘racist’ and swiftly removed from the Liberal party much like Moira Deeming following her opposition to far-left lgbtq+ ideology and Bernie Finn after he voiced the Christian position regarding abortion. All these politicians spoke out against practices which every day impoverish, harm and literally end Australian lives, yet instead of receiving the near universal support many political leaders are receiving for anti-Palestine actions, these politicians were completely ostracised. This contrast grows even starker when we compare the support Peter Dutton has received for calling for deportations on individuals who merely attended a pro-Palestine protest to the backlash he received for speaking out against Sudanese gangs in Victoria who actually broke the law and have a track record of violent crime.
This uniquely swift and near-universal response has clearly not been bought down because of the violent threat presented or the disharmony created as a result of protests, the reaction is clearly unique to the target under threat - the state of Israel.
it appears that this is a result of the strong influence pro-Israel lobby groups such as the ‘Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Committee’ (AIJAC) and ‘Anti Defamation Commission’ (ADC) exert over both major parties and many mainstream media companies. Journalist John Lyons sums up the extent of this influence over public opinion succinctly:
“…there are only three people who can tell the editors of The Australian what they can or can’t use: Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and Colin Rubenstein (executive director of the AIJAC).”
These lobby groups with ties to the Israeli government reportedly use mafia-like pressure tactics to coerce politicians, political parties and media companies alike in order to influence Australian foreign policy.
The influence of these lobby groups over our political institutions explains the double standard in terms of political advocacy - there is no monetary or career advantage to be gained from advocating for the interests of Anglo-Celtic and European Australians against the various negative effects of diversity, but there is in the case of Israelis and Israel.
This is why no politician and most mainstream media figures will not lift a finger to remedy the root cause of the recent domestic turmoil resulting from the Israel-Palestine conflict, that being multiculturalism. For most, like Albanese, the very concept of multiculturalism is sacrosanct and above reproach, it is this attitude which has pervaded multiple generations of our nation’s political leaders hat has created a nation perpetually poised to break out into protest, brawls and conflict based upon the actions of foreign powers to whom various minority populations hold their true loyalty to. Instead we receive only targeted solutions bought and paid for by special interest lobbies.
If either of the major parties were as dedicated to pausing and reversing multicultural diversity (by ending the mass immigration which has created it) as they were about conflict in a state twelve thousand kilometres away, our national headlines would have looked very different this week. The same is true of ending any number of the affronts to our morality which are commonplace in schools and libraries or defeating the Voice to Parliament campaign. It seems obvious, but we should expect our politicians to demonstrate a greater dedication to advancing and protecting our own nation rather than foreign states.
To conclude I would like to reiterate the comment regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict I posted to 𝕏 earlier this week: I am neither pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, I am pro-Australia, and it’s about time Australia’s political leadership was too.