Vile equivalence spotted on Greens banner

The office of The Greens sole lower House MP has told The AJN that a sign attached to her gazebo in Brisbane last Sunday equating Israel with Nazi Germany was unsanctioned.

The banner on Member for Ryan Elizabeth Watson-Brown’s marquee, reading “Zionist Israel = Nazi Germany; equally as EVIL or worse?” was displayed adjacent to another banner that said “Zionism has hijacked true Judaism and evangelism”.

The portable gazebo was installed in a Brisbane park as part of nationwide anti-Israel protests that took place on Sunday. Organisers said an estimated 50,000 people attended the Brisbane demonstration, while 100,000 each turned out in Melbourne and Sydney. Police put the numbers at 10,000 in each city.

In Brisbane, protesters flew the flags of Hamas, the Shahada, long associated with al-Qaeda, ISIS and other radical Islamist groups.

“These are not symbols of solidarity. They are symbols of death, violence and terror,” Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies (QJBD) president Jason Steinberg said, adding that the Jewish community “was sickened” to see so many Queenslanders “support terrorism, antisemitism and hate”.