Shameful hate laid bare on our streets

It was never about a ceasefire.

Nor was it ever about Palestinian civilians or about human rights.

We knew this of course, but many well-meaning Australians may have been duped. Now the mask has slipped and the ugliness of the anti-Israel, anti-West, pro-Hamas movement has been exposed for all to see.

These mobs, such as those who attacked police with stones and shards of glass in Melbourne last weekend, are not pro-Palestinian. They have said nothing over the last week as Hamas reasserts its authority in Gaza and publicly executes scores of Palestinian civilians in the streets.

Far from welcoming the ceasefire that their placards over the last two years of anarchy purported to call for, they have rejected it outright. The hypocrisy – given their labelling of Israel’s war as a “genocide” – in rejecting the end of said military campaign, is staggering.