Why Not Report Why We Stand With Palestine In Melbourne?

Published in New Matilda, 24 April, 2018:

The question that occupied my mind in the lead up to our protest and as I was marshalling was why, why is there a rival group across the street right now?

What do they want? More snipers to gun down Palestinians in Gaza? For Israel not to budge to pressure from the international community and maintain its illegal and criminal use of live ammunition at protesters? They want this, but no one is reporting on their murder-driven ideology.

We can break it down further. What is their cause when both our government and Labor stand with Israel? It’s not as though the Australian government is even contemplating the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador (one of our protest demands reported by Channel 9) for Israeli supporters to worry about the safety of Australia’s loyalty to Israel.