‘Pro-Palestinian’ protests against Herzog in Australia

(THE TIMES OF ISRAEL) It’s not remotely surprising that President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is being met with protests by “pro-Palestinian” activists falsely alleging Israeli genocide in Gaza.

After all, “pro-Palestinian” activists in Australia, and pretty much everywhere else on the planet, have been demonstrating against Israel’s resort to war from almost immediately after Hamas invaded southern Israel from a Jew-free Gaza Strip, massacred some 1,200 people amid unspeakable brutality, abducted 251 to Gaza, and vowed to keep on killing Israelis until the world’s only Jewish-majority state is destroyed.

These are not demonstrations regarding Israel’s prosecution of the war, or focused on the pro-annexation policies of a hawkish Israeli government, by activists genuinely concerned for the wellbeing of non-terrorist Palestinians and noncombatants in any and all conflict zones.

Rather, these are concerted protests transparently designed to demonise and delegitimise Israel and Israel alone, in its entirety and its essence — to render Israel a pariah state with which no decent country should interact in any field, to deny it not only the right to defend itself but the weaponry and practical capacity to defend itself, and thus to aid Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime in their declared mission to wipe us out.

So the demonstrations against Herzog’s visit are anything but surprising. But they are particularly revealing, horrifying and despicable.