Over the past two years, more than a thousand pro-Palestinian protests have taken place across Australia — beginning on October 8, the day after Hamas’ horrific massacre.
These demonstrations have not been protests for peace. They have been rallies against Israel’s right to exist.
From the start, peace was never the goal — as clearly articulated in this Sky News analysis.
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When “Protest” Turns into Hatred
Only a day after the massacre, chants of “Gas the Jews” echoed from the steps of the Sydney Opera House. “Globalise the Intifada!” was shouted joyfully by an elated Sydney imam.
Week after week, mobs have marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge waving flags of terrorist organisations, brandishing images of the Ayatollah, and chanting:
• “Long live the Intifada,”
• “Death to the IDF,”
• “From the river to the sea,” and
• “Free, free Palestine.”
These are not calls for coexistence. They are calls for eradication.
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A Country Divided
Australia’s streets have become a billboard for antisemitism, spreading Jew-hatred through social media and universities like a contagion.
At a time when hostages are still being held by Hamas, our government chose to:
• Allocate $20 million in taxpayer funds to “Palestine,”
• Signal intent to recognise Palestine at the UN General Assembly, and
• Urge Israel to negotiate with a terrorist organisation that hands machine guns to children and straps suicide vests to toddlers.
This is not leadership. This is moral confusion.
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“Free Palestine” — to Do What?
The organisers of these weekly marches — including the Palestinian Action Group and several radicalised imams — chant for a “Free Palestine.”
But what exactly does Free Palestine mean to them?
It does not mean coexistence or a two-state solution.
It means the annihilation of Israel — “from the river to the sea” — and the displacement of over seven million Jews from their ancestral homeland.
This week, as peace negotiations gain support from the U.S. and multiple Arab nations, these same groups are mobilising yet again — not to celebrate peace, but to oppose it.
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The Cost to Australia
By allowing this rhetoric to dominate our streets, we are fuelling division and undermining our most sacred values — multiculturalism, tolerance, and respect for one another.
What began as political demonstration has morphed into an imported hate campaign, corroding our social fabric and confusing young Australians about the difference between advocacy and extremism.
Australia should be a beacon of unity — not a stage for imported hate.
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The Real Pathway to Peace
Peace in the Middle East is possible. Over 14 million people — half Israeli, half Palestinian — deserve to live side by side in safety and prosperity.
A two-state solution can only work if both parties commit to:
• Tolerance and mutual recognition,
• Building schools, farms, and industries rather than tunnels and rockets,
• Reforming governance, ending “pay-to-slay” policies,
• Educating for coexistence instead of hatred, and
• Recognising Israel’s right to exist.
If such reforms take place, the majority of Israelis would welcome a two-state solution.
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A Message to Australia
Australia, it’s time to sort ourselves out.
Stop fuelling division.
Stop confusing anti-Zionism with “social justice.”
Stop normalising antisemitism under the guise of anti Zionism .
Let us be part of the solution — not part of the problem.
Let us be a light to the world to show that we can co-exist and live in a multicultural society in peace and prosperity .
Let us continue to be “the lucky Country”
