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The Opposition and sections of the press are using a criminal act against a synagogue in Australia for political purposes, urging @AlboMP to crack down on antisemitism. He has made unequivocal statements there is no place for it in Australia. The rest is a matter for police. But the attack on the government is driven by its recent vote at the UN in support of an end to Israel’s killing spree in Gaza and a two state solution. The problem is Israel has recently said the quiet part out loud - there will be no Palestinian state. Hence its condemnation of the recent UN vote. As @latingle points out, Aus merely followed its own policy, reversing two decades of voting against it. The attempt to whip up hysteria, tying the UN vote to stoking antisemitism and signalling a rise in terrorism is a tactic in an attempt to make the PM revert to a position of support for Israel no matter what it does and irrespective of any international juridical rulings: our UN vote is causing a rise in antisemitism, just as rallies and student encampments, or academics speaking out about the genocide, or journalists sharing information about it and calling out ethnic cleansing and the relentless murder of children, are all signs of antisemitism. And Albanese will pay a price for it at the ballot box for his error and weakness. Tingle ends with a point that needs to be made, though with respect not only to bias in the political class, but in the legacy media.