The ethical urgency of Gaza has met a new post-Anglo Australia to produce something extraordinary.
There seems to be every sign that Israel’s publicity machine, and Israel lobbies around the world, have been taken by surprise by the global pro-Palestinian movement that has developed.
In Australia, it has been able to turn out large protests five weeks in a row; the most recent in Melbourne was put by media at 45,000 and by organisers at considerably more. In London, the remembrance day march was anything between 300,000, the police estimate, and 800,000 or more, the organisers estimate.
This is an extraordinary achievement, matched across the world, produced from a deep ethical response that will not consent to the evisceration of a people, that uses as license a ghastly event that nevertheless did not constitute anything remotely resembling an existential threat to a major military power.
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