by Ganesh Sahathevan
What has any of this to do with Australia ?
Why are all of us, including migrants from other parts of the world, forced to endure this disruption because this migrant is determined to bring the conflicts of the place of her birth into our lives. As reported by The Guardian:
Assala Sayara’s voice rings out over Hyde Park in Sydney, clear as a bell.
“This is my favourite chant,” she says into the mic. “Follow along. Gaza, Gaza, don’t you cry, Palestine will never die!”
For five weekends running, Sayara has been leading the chants at the pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney, thundering through a popular set list that has become a defining part of the protests.
“These rallies are a place for me to hold my ancestors and their voices on my back. And the chants are a chance to claim back what is mine, our Palestinian identity, and when I chant, I feel like everything in my body is moving,” Sayara says.
“I’m not just chanting with my voice, I feel like my heart is chanting.
There are many migrants in Australia who have come from Muslim and other countries where rallies of the type described above have been used as tools of mass radicalisation. Watching the Australian Federal and state governments encourage these rallies by failing to properly characterise then as disruption and indoctrination, but rather expressions of free speech, does not engender in them a sense of security.
That added to ongoing concerns about the rising cost of living and diminishing standards of living is likely to lead to the withdrawal of any support for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Labor Government.It does appear as if Albanese's undergraduate obsession with Palestine has blinded him to the obvious , that he may win Muslim votes, but lose all other ethnics who have no interest whatsoever in Palestine.
Sydney Muslim Vote backer Assala Sayara is reported to have attended a Hamas anniversary rally. Albanese seems unable to comprehend why this would alarm ordinary Australians, including migrants.
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