12mo ago

No evidence of antisemitic 'gas' chant at pro-Palestinian Sydney protest, police find

www.sbs.com.au No evidence of antisemitic 'gas' chant at pro-Palestinian Sydney protest, police find

Edited footage of protesters chanting "gas the Jews" at a rally outside the Sydney Opera House in October was shared on social media, but NSW Police said an extensive investigation found no evidence of it happening.

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Gosh, it's almost like one side lies constantly.
- Let's be real, both sides do. One just does it in English.
  
  No only one side is consistently lying about everything.
  The more you research the history of Palestine the clearer it becomes that the issue is always the same side that then somehow pretends to be the victim.

Fuck Israel.

MBFC link for SBS.

The NSFW police

"As a result of that examination, the expert has concluded with overwhelming certainty that the phrase chanted during that protest, as recorded on the audio and visual files, was "Where's the Jews?" he said.
"Not another phrase, as otherwise widely reported."
When asked whether there was evidence of other antisemitic phrases being used at the rally, Lanyon said "certainly".
"There is evidence of that, and those are offensive and completely unacceptable," he said.
"But I think the major contention has been about the phrase that was chanted, and quite emphatically, our expert has said that it is 'Where's the Jews?'"
Thank goodness, "where's (sic) the Jews" instead of "gas the Jews", just two days after the Oct 7 killings and mass rapes by Hamas, definitely makes it much better /s
- How dare they ask why Jewish voices aren’t also against Israel’s horrific response at a rally aimed at our governments blind support for Israel and the now obvious to everyone genocide of Palestinians.
  Instead there was only lies spread to say they were calling for genocide of Jewish people.
  
  Said "horrific response" hadn't even started yet when this protest happened. That's a little telling if you ask me.
  
  I'd feel weird for going into the streets to protest against Israel for killing terrorists who murdered other jews. A jewish person showing up at a pro Palestinian rally is like asking to be hatecrimed.
  
  If that's the reason why they were yelling that, it's racist even if it's not genocidal. Substitute any other ethnicity or race into that sentence. Demanding that Jews attend a protest or swear a loyalty oath is racist -- the same way it would be if a bunch of people were yelling "where's the Blacks?" or "where's the Muslims?"
  
  You're grasping at straws, you clearly didn't read the article (and don't want to), so I quote the relevant passage for you as you seem to only have read the headline:
  When asked whether there was evidence of other antisemitic phrases being used at the rally, Lanyon said “certainly”.
  That + repeating "where's the Jews" during a rally immediately 2 days after Hamas' killings and mass rapes on October 7th is definitely indefensible and certainly is incompatible with how you want it to be interpreted.
  You hoped that this article would be a gotcha moment but you seem to not have read anything beyond the headline, because the article is actually still pretty damning.
- If you think "where's" and "gas" are morally equivalent words in that sentence, good news, your local neonazis are most likely recruiting and very excited to hear more about your opinions.
- mass rapes by Hamas
  Was there evidence of this?
  If 7/10 were killings, what has been committed by Israel since?
  
  Was there evidence of this?
  Yes(Archive). Reported by many news organizations.
  The UN is currently in Israel investigating(Archive).

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