Similar situation in Australia. Despite the Australian government being a little more even handed on the international stage, criticism of Israel is strongly discouraged internally. A journalist of Lebanese background was fired from the national broadcaster for retweeting a Human Rights Watch report on Gaza; the National Gallery of Austr…
Similar situation in Australia. Despite the Australian government being a little more even handed on the international stage, criticism of Israel is strongly discouraged internally. A journalist of Lebanese background was fired from the national broadcaster for retweeting a Human Rights Watch report on Gaza; the National Gallery of Australia is currently censoring Palestinian symbols in its artworks, a pianist had his concerts cancelled for expressing solidarity with the journalists of Gaza (although this was reversed), and an artist who was to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale has been sacked because apparently a work he did ten years ago featured an image of a Hezbollah leader.
Almost every day the media leads with some moral panic over anti-semitism, most of which consists of either graffiti or false reports (such as women being pelted with eggs, which turned out to be random). There have been more serious incidents, such as arson attacks on synagogues, but even then it's been reported that foreign actors are paying criminal groups in Australia to carry some of these attacks. Which foreign actors? Who knows. The most serious incident was a caravan found filled with explosives that apparently had a list of Jewish targets in it. But now the police are saying they are not treating this as a terrorist incident. So what is it? Who knows. There doesn't seem to be any urgency in the media to clarify these matters. These caveats haven't stopped both federal and state governments passing more hate speech laws, including mandatory sentences, and restricting the right to protest even further.
Similar situation in Australia. Despite the Australian government being a little more even handed on the international stage, criticism of Israel is strongly discouraged internally. A journalist of Lebanese background was fired from the national broadcaster for retweeting a Human Rights Watch report on Gaza; the National Gallery of Australia is currently censoring Palestinian symbols in its artworks, a pianist had his concerts cancelled for expressing solidarity with the journalists of Gaza (although this was reversed), and an artist who was to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale has been sacked because apparently a work he did ten years ago featured an image of a Hezbollah leader.
Almost every day the media leads with some moral panic over anti-semitism, most of which consists of either graffiti or false reports (such as women being pelted with eggs, which turned out to be random). There have been more serious incidents, such as arson attacks on synagogues, but even then it's been reported that foreign actors are paying criminal groups in Australia to carry some of these attacks. Which foreign actors? Who knows. The most serious incident was a caravan found filled with explosives that apparently had a list of Jewish targets in it. But now the police are saying they are not treating this as a terrorist incident. So what is it? Who knows. There doesn't seem to be any urgency in the media to clarify these matters. These caveats haven't stopped both federal and state governments passing more hate speech laws, including mandatory sentences, and restricting the right to protest even further.