False binaries and alternative realities (to justify atrocity)

In her opinion piece for the ABC titled ‘Melbourne Synagogue Fire Shows Australia’s Multicultural Project Needs Urgent Help,’ Patricia Karvelas wrote on the aftermath of two separate events: a protest at an Israeli-operated restaurant with links to the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), and an arson incident at an East Melbourne synagogue. After appearing only the day before to preach the same sentiment — as she hosted the Insiders program on the ABC — Karvelas’s article spoke to the need to reject ‘false binaries.’

‘Attacking Jews in restaurants, in synagogues, and on our streets is deeply rooted in anti-Jewish sentiment and in antisemitism,’ conflated the lazily constructed thoughts in the op-ed. But the restaurant’s owner was a spokesperson for the GHF, an operation repudiated by NGOs and the UN, which the Israeli Defence Force manning the checkpoints have called ‘killing fields.’ And the synagogue was targeted by a lone individual who flew down from Sydney and, as yet, has zero connection to the protest. Karvelas so quickly refers to the deep roots of antisemitism in Australian society.

PK’s Sunday/Monday one-two punch had barely registered on the jaw of the Australian public before the three-four-five flurry was completed by the Premier at a press conference. With the details about the arson attack and the perpetrator still under investigation, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, echoing the same rushed urgency that saw her implement draconian restrictions on public freedoms around the still-unresolved Ripponlea synagogue attack in 2024, hastily announced an ‘anti-hate taskforce’ after she claimed the Jewish community ‘demanded the government’s support.’

Patricia Karvelas is the ‘everything, everywhere, all at once’ journalist at the ABC, appearing terrifyingly and repeatedly, blocking the only exits for sound and thoroughly objective analysis. From breakfast radio to Q&A, to afternoon television, to Sunday panel shows, and back to her blank-cheque access to write op-eds that sit in the prime slot of the ABC webpage for too long, Patricia Karvelas has been given the talking stick at the ABC, and she uses it.

But instead of finding who is funding these attacks and the criminal elements that are organising social division for Dogecoin payments on the dark web, the ABC allows Karvelas to jump the gun on antisemitism again and gives her an editorial hall pass to conflate protesting against a genocide-supporting restaurant owner with anti-Jewish activity, and a no-reason-to-expect-anything-otherwise arson attack that has the same indicators as every false-flag antisemitism attack involving international criminal outfits.

This is the MO now. A flurry of rage by subjectively irresponsible and potentially ideologically compromised journalists, telling opinions as news — no longer contained to the commercial media but fattened up on the benchmark at the ABC — handballing the package of skewed narrative over the top of the public to the political class, who use it to legislate and act against Australians forming resistance to a genocide. A genocide that is real, is appalling, has been going on for far too long, and is a genocide that every major party, federal and state government, supports in some way or another.

And just like the war-on-Christmas angle Jacinta Allan took with protesters passing by the Myer windows, the Zionist-backing Premier, in line with the Victorian bipartisan standard,  bends over backwards doing appearances for the powerful Melbourne Jewish community while barely being seen with another religious group. The Ripponlea synagogue suspect is still missing, but Allan’s consequential government restrictions are well in place despite this fact. Here, again, Allan is doubling down, taking out a loan on the social contract that she cannot afford, to control a state that overwhelmingly wants Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza.

The ABC hasn’t made so much as a mention of the fact that Israel has destroyed nearly all the Christian and Muslim places of worship in Gaza, along with the hospitals and schools, but spares no time jumping at what could be another Molotov-for-hire arson attack. Premier Allan hasn’t recognised that the restaurant owner at Miznon is a spokesman for a death squad disguised as an aid organisation. Their calls to reject ‘false binaries’ are stupendous in their gall and cheek in the face of this genocide, as an ever-wiser citizenry is further appalled with an ever-compromised political and media class.

This Victorian overreach comes after the embarrassment of the Chris Minns NSW Labor government tried to talk its way around the fake Dural caravan incident, which it used as a catalyst for the careless ramming through of anti-hate speech laws that were not repealed after the truth was revealed — after knowing the incident was not linked to terrorism. Premier Allan’s insistence on following suit so quickly after Friday’s incident and pushing for more limitations to public freedoms, when Australians are fully conscious of the cleavage in the social contract, smells less of fear and political survival and more like an ideological belief in Zionism.

Isn’t it the duty of a journalist to report the facts? Isn’t it an elected leader’s responsibility to keep the peace? With no motive, completed investigation, or outcome from the accused arsonist — who has no links to the protest, who seemed to come all the way down from Western Sydney to throw a firebomb at a door — shouldn’t the public broadcaster be asking questions in line with the nature of these attacks? Shouldn’t the Premier of the state of Victoria be urging calm until the investigation is complete, instead of rolling out the anti-hate taskforce on a secular society? A society that is appalled by Israel’s role in the genocide in Gaza and totally done with the handful of elected elites and media ghouls who hold back a cracking levee.

Just like he did with the Ripponlea fire, indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu took time out of his genocide in Gaza, his extrajudicial killings in Yemen, and his duplicitous ceasefire with Iran to echo Allan and Karvelas, demanding that Australia do more to combat antisemitism. As another round of exclusive pledges to defend the Jewish population comes in lieu of statements that could be looking at combating all forms of racism for everyone, accompanied by misplaced and disingenuous critical analysis about the state of Australia’s multicultural project in favour of Zionist voices, more than 377,000 Palestinians are missing in over six hundred days of genocide. Australians are right to think there may be an impasse between the political leadership and the resting humanity of our nation.

Just as the press clearly has forgotten its role to tell the truth, political leaders have forgotten to govern for all in society. In the obsessive language focused primarily on antisemitism, Allan and Karvelas are wrong about secular Australians being hateful, and they are hiding the extent that they are ideologically, economically and morally captured by Israel. It isn’t the public that has been targeted by powerful, rich lobby groups, chambers of commerce, and friendship societies. It isn’t the average people that get jobs with Zionist West Bank settler benefactor Anthony Pratt like former Premier Daniel Andrews. Not many of the punters have an open-door policy with powerful Zionist lobby groups, and it isn’t the protesters taking expenses-paid junkets to Israel and rolling around in the mud of the Red Sea. It isn’t impressing Australians that these ghouls think they can turn their back on us, on our opposition to the human crime of the century.