"When news broke of the Bondi Beach shooting, those of us in the global Palestine solidarity movement knew immediately what was coming. We've seen this pattern: when liberation movements challenge state power and when genocide is named and resisted, states seize on any incident, any tragedy, to justify criminalizing that resistance. Since October 2023, as Israel has carried out genocide in Gaza, Australia has built an apparatus to suppress Palestine solidarity: envoys, task forces, and "safety" initiatives that treat anti-genocide organizing as a threat."
"We knew the Bondi shooting would be weaponized against us because Zionism - through Israeli state institutions, lobby groups, and complicit governments - has made Jewish safety inseparable from Israeli state interests. It is not because of any connection to Palestine, but because the victims were Jewish. Zionism has constructed a system where any harm to Jews, regardless of context or motive, becomes justification to criminalize Palestine solidarity and crush demands for liberation."
Since October 2023, Israel has carried out genocide in Gaza and Australia has developed an apparatus—envoys, task forces, and "safety" initiatives—that treats Palestine solidarity as a threat. Liberation movements and naming genocide provoke state responses that seize on incidents to criminalize resistance. The Bondi Beach shooting was anticipated to be weaponized against Palestine solidarity because Zionism, via Israeli institutions, lobby groups, and allied governments, has made Jewish safety politically inseparable from Israeli state interests. Any harm to Jews, irrespective of motive, becomes grounds to label solidarity as dangerous, enabling governments and media to blame Palestinian advocacy and suppress demands for liberation.
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