Jewish New Yorkers using their identity to provide ‘cover' for Zohran Mamdani
Mr Kozak posted a video to social media, lampooning Zohran Mamdani's success in winning over the Jewish New Yorker vote.
'When you only use your Jewish identity to stand up and protest against Israel, the only Jewish state,' Mr Kozak told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
'And you stand with people who I think put the Jewish community in danger – then I really object to that.'
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- Sydney Morning Herald
Capital cities prepare for bridge marches as fears raised over emergency services impact
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The Age
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- The Age
Capital cities prepare for bridge marches as fears raised over emergency services impact
Premier Chris Minns also refused to grant the group permission to march across the bridge, and said police were not given enough time to safely organise resources for the protest, prompting organisers to launch a last-ditch attempt to save the Sydney protest after NSW Police filed Supreme Court action seeking an order to block the protest. Justice Belinda Rigg on Saturday found any inconvenience caused by the march to commuters across the Sydney Harbour Bridge was not a reason to refuse it on legal grounds. 'The application by the commissioner should be refused,' Rigg said in her judgment on Saturday. 'It is in the very nature of the right of peaceful protest that disruption will be caused to others. If matters such as this were to be determinative, no assembly involving inconvenience to others would be permitted.' The court's decision means protesters will now have the legal right to occupy the bridge and streets surrounding the route of the march from the streets surrounding Wynyard Station in the Sydney CBD to North Sydney. NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley said the public should prepare for 'massive, massive disruption'. Palestine Action Group organiser Josh Lees said the iconic bridge was essential to the planned march as it would send 'an urgent and massive response' to the crisis in Gaza. The Israeli government has denied claims of genocide and says the war in Gaza is an act of self-defence. Loading It has also denied claims that there is starvation in Gaza after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused it of breaching international law by stopping food from being delivered into the 13-kilometre-wide strip, which has 2.1 million people squeezed into an area half the size of Canberra. The World Health Organisation said there had been 63 malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza last month, including 24 children under the age of five – up from 11 deaths total the previous six months of the year. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claims 82 people died last month of malnutrition-related causes, including 24 children and 58 adults, taking Gaza's death toll from the war, which began in 2023 after Hamas militants killed more than 700 civilians in southern Israel, to more than 60,000. Albanese has also called on Hamas to release the Israeli hostages taken as part of the attacks on October 7, as Jewish-Australian leaders raise fears the protests will fuel antisemitism. In Melbourne on Friday, Victoria Police warned the Melbourne demonstration – which plans to shut down the busy King Street Bridge – would require hundreds of its officers to be redeployed from other policing duties across the state. Rally organisers have vowed to let emergency services vehicles through, but police warned it was not enough to mitigate the risk.
Sky News AU
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- Sky News AU
The week the West was lost: Anthony Albanese joins the countries 'duped' on Israel by terrorists in trucks
This past week has demonstrated how the Western world, which often speaks about defending freedom, liberty and democracy, can be so easily duped by terrorists in pick-up trucks. We saw a statement by 28 countries, including Australia, that was so detached from reality that it blamed Israel for the terrible consequences of the current war in Gaza, rather than Hamas who started the war in the first place, and is refusing all attempts to end it. And of course, it called for an immediate permanent ceasefire without calling on Hamas to disarm or give up power. This is akin to calling for the end of World War II while leaving Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan intact. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went a step further saying in a statement that Israel was 'killing civilians, including children, seeking access to water and food' and that its actions 'cannot be defended or ignored'. Despite these harsh and demonstrably untrue words, he didn't go as far as French President Emanuel Macron who declared France's intentions to recognise a Palestinian state in September. Britain and Canada have now signalled similar intentions. In doing so these countries are effectively rewarding Hamas for its atrocities of October 7, 2023, while whitewashing almost 100 years of Arab and Palestinian terrorism and intransigence. They appear to have forgotten how Palestinian leaders have constantly rejected statehood from as long ago as the 1937 Peel Commission plan to the more recent 2008 Olmert plan and up until the 2020 Trump Plan, in which the Palestinians refused to even engage. These declarations were predictably praised and lauded by both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. One would think that when a death cult praises you, along with a corrupt entity that financially rewards terrorism, this would cause you to question whether your understandings and actions are morally sound. Well, think again! The West has lost its moral compass and now flounders in the dark, unable to have the courage and conviction of its own stated values, preferring instead to attack the victims of evil, rather than evil itself. No one denies there is suffering in Gaza and the images are horrible, but what so much of the West still refuses to accept is that this is a direct result of the deliberate intentions of a death cult terror group whose leaders openly state that their goal remains the destruction of the Jewish state and the genocide of the Jewish people. Moreover, these same leaders have also been open that they believe the suffering of Gaza civilians are 'necessary sacrifices" and serve their evil cause. Israel has already facilitated over 1.8 million tonnes of aid into Gaza – and has just announced several major measures to improve aid access, including daily local ceasefires, designated aid corridors, aid airdrops, and facilitating aid donations from Egypt and Jordan. But it was telling that it was only after Israel exposed that there were still over 950 truckloads of aid on the Gazan side of border awaiting collection last week that the United Nations agencies, which work closely with Hamas, finally began to move some of that aid. So why didn't these agencies do this before? Meanwhile, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has delivered the equivalent of more than 91 million meals to needy civilians, bypassing Hamas' looting and interference – a fact that no country making these virtue-signalling declarations has even acknowledged. Even when the GHF offered to help deliver the stranded aid trucks, the UN still refused to take up that offer. The GHF may not be perfect, but it is delivering aid directly to people in need. The fact that the UN won't even engage with the GHF demonstrates that it has abandoned any pretence of supposedly prioritising helping ordinary Palestinian civilians over other goals. The obsession the world has in blaming Israel for the current crisis is not only misplaced – it's dangerous. Anti-Semitic incidents have been cropping up all around the world, including Australia. In Spain, 50 Jewish school kids were kicked off a flight for singing Hebrew songs. Jewish cruise passengers were also prevented from disembarking by anti-Israel protestors at a Greek port. Jews were also collectively slandered by a leading British broadcaster, James O'Brien, on the LBC channel in London. And here in Australia, 10- and 11-year-old students from the Jewish day school Mt Scopus College, were verbally assaulted during an excursion at the Melbourne Museum, by students from another school who harassed them with chants of 'free Palestine' and called them 'dirty Jews". Rather than confronting Hamas' terrorism, the West is choosing the easy path of blaming Israel instead, taken in by false narratives, distorted reporting and blatant falsehoods. When this war ends, Israel may be battered, but it will survive - it always does. But I fear for the West. In its rush to appease populist outrage, leaders have abandoned their integrity and betrayed the very values they claim to uphold. This moral collapse doesn't just endanger Israel - it threatens the very soul of the West. Justin Amler is a policy analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)
