Opinion
As you all no doubt know from bitter experience, much of the left are not exactly the deepest thinkers, nor the most independent minds. For all that they sneer at the United States, antipodean leftists are only all-too-eager to ape the latest inanities of the American left.
Take, for instance, their ovine rush to adopt the Black Lives Matter movement, as if a handful of police shootings of violent black criminals in the US has anything at all to do with us. But, no, there they were, bending their little knees and shaking their little fists in their tens of thousands.
When it comes to climate change, too, you’ll be only too bitterly familiar with leftists robotically parroting the same, tiresome, and long-debunked talking-points. Global boiling! Polar bears! Just five years! Sixth extinction!
Don’t even let’s get started on Covid.
Author James Delingpole once remarked that it’s as if, on the first day of their Arts degree, leftists are given a big book: This Is What You Think.
When it comes to Israel, we know that that isn’t even a joke. The Big Book of This is What You Think About Israel has been leaked, and it’s as idiotically anti-Semitic as you’d expect.
Pro-Palestine “toolkits” that encourage civil disobedience to “threaten business as usual”, provide a script to make daily calls to Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and lobby the State of Origin teams to ditch their Puma-made kits are circulating among activist networks.
One toolkit also provides “counter arguments” for activists, which include comparing the Gaza Strip to the Nazi concentration camps, that Israel had no right to defend itself, and how there was a “migration of pedophiles” to Israel […]
The handbook urged activists to make clear that “Israel was not a democracy”, the conflict was not a “war”, and that Israel had no right to defend itself.
And, right on cue, I’ve come across leftists in the wild parroting exactly these talking points. Verbatim.
These people are so stupid that they literally have to have a script fed to them.
The toolkit provides a script for activists to use when emailing or calling the minister.
“My name is (XXX),” the script reads, urging the government to “cut all ties” with Israel. “I am contacting you about the Palestinian genocide. I find Australia’s silence about Israel’s war crimes … deeply shameful and upsetting”.
One handbook, produced by “Advocating for Palestine”, provides “counter arguments” for activists. “Israel is a Western colony, (which) forms the basis for both the British endorsement of the declaration of the state of Israel and the unwavering support of the US,” it reads.
“(President) Biden has stated, ‘if there were no Israel, the US would have to invent one to protect its interests in the region’.”
Needless to say, that’s an even bigger lie than that there has ever been, at any time in history, an independent state called “Palestine”.
US President Joe Biden did not say in his October visit to Tel Aviv that Israel was “invented to protect its interests in the region”, rather it was “born to be a safe place for Jewish people”.
But the lies and moronic echo chambers are only the start. These creeps are being spoon-fed some truly vile anti-Semitism — and they’re lapping it up, including updated versions of the mediaeval blood libel.
The handbook said Gaza “met all the criteria of a concentration camp” and that the Israel Defence Forces’ actions were “what Nazis did (at) concentration camps”.
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson called the tactics appalling. “While every Australian is free to organise peacefully for their political views, it is abhorrent that activists are resorting to appalling tactics like comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany,” the senator said.
“This is historically ignorant, offensive and corrosive to social cohesion.”
The Australian
Ignorant, offensive and corrosive could well be the left’s mission statement.
Still, like all lefty movements, the anti-Semitic revolution is eating itself already.
Block the Dock Melbourne, which targets Israeli shipping interests, has savaged Free Palestine Melbourne, claiming the umbrella campaigning group has been overrun by white people who do not speak for the people directly affected by the Middle East conflict.
The Australian
That’s probably because only middle-class white tossers are viciously stupid enough to fall for this anti-Semitic garbage. There’s nothing too dumb or hateful that these rabid sheep won’t run bleating after it.