7000 people, Christians and Jews included, standing side by side, legally, against racism & terrorism. You\u2019d think in this day & age it would be non-news…
However:
Pro Palestinian supporters arrive, try to get around police barriers, carrying signs written in \u2018blood\u2019, stamping on Jewish symbols and start chanting \u2018from the river to the sea\u2019 (a universally condemned phrase calling for genocide).
This happened today in Victoria. As of yet, no mention on ABC, 7 or 9.
(Link to Sky news article in the comments.)
Is this the \u2018progressive\u2019 society we are building?
Is this the unity we can expect under the current government?
Is this the desire & actions of \u2018tolerance and love\u2019?
Is this the result of \u2018social\u2019 media in the information age?
As followers of Jesus, how are we to respond?<\/p>\n
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https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/australia-news\/politics\/riot-police-descend-on-melbourne-as-antisemitism-rally-faces-off-with-antiisrael-protesters-outside-victorian-parliament\/news-story\/6734b1000b3a051435acb8efa53ac6c0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
7000 people, Christians and Jews included, standing side by side, legally, against racism & terrorism. You\u2019d think in this day & age it would be non-news… However: Pro Palestinian supporters arrive, try to get around police barriers, carrying signs written in \u2018blood\u2019, stamping on Jewish symbols and start chanting \u2018from the river to the sea\u2019 (a universally condemned phrase calling for genocide). This happened today in Victoria. As of yet, no mention on ABC, 7 or 9. (Link to Sky news article in the comments.)Is this the \u2018progressive\u2019 society we are building? Is this the unity we can expect under …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103,236],"tags":[150,157],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-false-religion-cults","tag-islam","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasDCW-vA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildeden.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}