Edited footage of protesters chanting “gas the Jews” at the rally outside the Sydney Opera House in October was shared on social media, but NSW Police said an extensive investigation found no evidence of it happening.
Edited footage of protesters chanting “gas the Jews” at the rally outside the Sydney Opera House in October was shared on social media, but NSW Police said an extensive investigation found no evidence of it happening.
I’ll admit to, not surprise per se, but certainly a sense of relief. If there were antisemitic chants from a minority of protesters, it wouldn’t at all take away from the importance of the message of the majority. But it would undermine the effort in the eyes of the disinterested public.
There’s no denying that a small minority of actual antisemitic extremists are taking advantage of this moment to harass and target Jewish people, and I also wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that Israel is promoting false flag operations (after all, it’s a known fact that they propped up Hamas in its early days, and this would be so much less extreme than that). Those two factors combine mean I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard the finding went the other way.