'Globalize the Intifada' Means Blood on Bondi Beach
Now they’re all shocked. The progressive activists. The influencers. The Greens. The podcasters. All those impeccably right-on people who’ve spent two years making “Zionist”—or “Zio”—the dirtiest word in the Australian vocabulary. Who marched down Oxford Street during Mardi Gras holding a sign that said “Globalise the Intifada.” Well, congratulations. The intifada’s here. Globalized. Mission accomplished.
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But here’s what needs to be said to the people who’ve spent two years treating Israel as a uniquely evil state. Who’ve made “Zionism” synonymous with racism and slavery and every conceivable sin. Who’ve said Zionists shouldn’t be platformed, shouldn’t have culturally safe spaces, should essentially be drummed out of polite society. Who’ve chanted “from the river to the sea” at rallies, in Parliament, and posted it on their Instagram stories with little watermelon emojis:
You built this. You laid the foundations, brick by rhetorical brick, post by viral post, march by march with your inverted red triangles and your signs bearing the words “Zionists are neo-Nazis.” What exactly did you think “intifada” meant? It means blood. It has always meant blood. And now they’ll be cleaning up the blood on Bondi Beach for weeks.
Take Nasser Mashni, now sending “love, care and solidarity” to the Jewish victims. The same Nasser Mashni who for two years, in his role with the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, has painted Zionism as “settler colonialism” and “Jewish supremacy.” Or Randa Abdel-Fattah, the author and academic, who’s expressing sadness online at this “horrific act of anti-Semitism.” Who’s on record saying Zionists have “no claim or right to cultural safety.”
But Bondi? What happened? Shocking.
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Because when people talk about Russia and its war in Ukraine, none of it metastasizes into graffiti on Russian restaurants. Into harassment of Russian students. Into boycotts and firebombings. Or bullets on beaches. But with Israel? With Jews? It always does. Every single time. And the Jewish community kept saying this. We saw it coming. We saw it in Europe and America. We saw it in England.
So spare us the shock. Save the thoughts and prayers.
You don’t get to globalize the intifada and then act all surprised when it finally shows up.
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