“They are Messianic Jewish supremacists, racists, of the worst kind”

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1. I have so much pent up anger over this. I read about Peter Dutton and Tony Abbott pushing this ultra Zionist line to the Australian public. I see the right wing press defending Israels actions as if it were their patriotic duty.

   Then we have these Labor leaders trying to condemn Palestinians for hijacking this day. Even the Guardian published an opinion piece that tried to gas-light us into thinking that this was all a medieval blood libel against Jewish people. I cannot imagine what The Guardian journalists who have written about Palestine must have thought to see their work being denigrated?

   The continual criminalisation of Palestinian sympathy continues. A concert pianist given his marching orders by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra adds to the list of people losing their jobs and artistic expression for speaking up for Palestine. Universities being made to apologise for not breaking up protests that made some Jewish students feel uncomfortable?

   Our federal government tries to walk a middle path, but at times it seems that such a path is not viable. The ‘right to defend themselves’ no longer makes any sense in this context, when it now means to right to commit genocide. What about the Palestinian right to defend themselves – it is called terrorism?

   Peter Dutton has made it clear that he considers support of Palestine as a criminal offence. I wonder how far he will go in this? Are the federal police already collecting evidence against us?

   Yes, I am paranoid, I am getting scared for what Zion-fascism is doing to us. It is distorting our morality into some sort of perverse ideology that is blind to evil.

   In all this, I would give credit to the Jewish Council of Australia who have spoken up on behalf decent Jewish Australians even if it has led to them being called ‘self-haters’ and ‘anti-semitic’. I would also give credit to the few Christian groups who spoken up against the Zionist superstition, and of course the Muslim Australians who have never stopped calling for justice for Palestine. Then there is us “Agnostic Heretics”, we must stand in solidarity with our religious brothers and sisters who seek peace!

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   1. I feel funny and nervously awkward saying this, but I wonder if there is some hope for change not too far ahead. Towards the end of that interview, Ehud Barak referred to his sensing some vibe for change in American attitude towards the state of Israel. I was reminded of the “tipping point” in public opinion as I read it in George Monbiot’s and Peter Hutchison’s new book The Invisible Doctrine where they say the “power of persuasion” is vastly over-rated and that societies change their views collectively when only around 25% of the population changes their minds:

      It has happened many times before: sudden, sweeping changes have taken place, though they seemed unimaginable shortly before they happened. Think of smoking. Not long ago, smoking in public places was acceptable almost everywhere. When people spoke of decisions being made in “smoke-filled rooms,” they were not exaggerating. Public buildings, offices, trains, buses, airplanes, theaters, pubs, bars, school bathrooms, and teachers’ lounges—even restaurants—were filled with a suffocating fug. It seemed to just be “the way things were”: a high proportion of the population smoked, and politicians didn’t have the guts to do anything about it, for fear of the votes and taxes they might lose. Today, the few remaining smokers linger in alleyways near the dumpster, furtively taking a hasty drag as if they were still in high school. The situation has changed entirely, in a remarkably short space of time.

      We can see similar effects in other aspects of social change, such as sexual liberation and marriage equality. How did these shifts happen? Advocates and campaigners gradually expanded the concentric circles of people who were committed to new beliefs and practices, until they reached a critical threshold, at which point change cascaded suddenly and unstoppably

      We now have a good idea of where such thresholds might lie. Both observational and experimental data suggest that once roughly 25 percent of the population is committed to change, most of the rest of society quickly joins them. In one experiment, between 72 percent and 100 percent of people swung around, once the critical threshold had been reached, reversing the group’s social norms. As the paper reporting this research notes, a large body of work suggests that “the power of small groups comes not from their authority or wealth, but from their commitment to the cause.

      This social tipping happens partly as a result of the inherent dynamics of a complex system and partly because we are such social mammals. A critical threshold is reached when a certain proportion of the population changes its views. When others sense that the wind has changed, they tack around to catch it. The majority doesn’t need to be persuaded to change—they just don’t want to be left behind. We might not even be conscious of making the shift: it simply becomes the new common sense. Even those who were once opposed to bans on smoking in public places, or the idea that gay people should have the same rights to marry as straight people, fall into line with the new social consensus. Some will go on to claim, and to believe, that they always supported such shifts. Time and again, on issues ranging from racial equality, to LGBTQ+ rights, to traditional gender roles and family structures, to mental-health awareness, to sexual harassment and assault, to marijuana legalization—we’ve seen these shifts in collective perception. After the War, everyone became a member of the Resistance.

      (Excerpt From Invisible Doctrine – Kindle version)

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2. Back in the 1990s Barak said openly that had he been born a Palestinian he would have become a terrorist. Probably the most honest take I have ever heard.

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