As if we didn’t know already, three lessons were driven brutally home again by this weekend’s national shame in Sydney and Melbourne.
Firstly, that the face of evil is not a cackling, hand-rubbing, super-villain. The true face of evil is smug, well-fed and odiously self-assured of its own moral goodness. Secondly, the left have not only willingly embraced evil, but are completely oblivious to the lessons of history. And thirdly, that middle-class, middle-aged, left-wing white women are one of the most corrosive forces to Western democracy.
First, the faces of evil:
In a procession drenched by pouring rain and occasionally marred by hateful images, an estimated 90,000 pro-Palestine protesters marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday led by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Can the media please stop parroting this lie? Assange was not a Wikileaks founder. He glommed onto the organisation after it was actually founded. Remember when accuracy in reporting was important?
The picture of Khamenei, standing with a rifle, was clearly visible behind Assange as he marched alongside Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi, republican activist Craig Foster and former journalist Mary Kostakidis.
Assange, who was joined by his wife Stella and their two children, greeted former NSW premier and foreign minister Bob Carr but did not speak to the media.
Other high-profile attendees at the march included writer Randa Abdel-Fattah, radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore and former sportsman Anthony Mundine.
Look at their smug little faces. As cocksure of their own, untouchable, superiority as the VIP box at a Nuremberg rally. Every bit as sure of the rightness of their cause. Not coincidentally, too, largely Muslim: this is the hate that Australia has imported. But it has plenty of home-grown and odious fellow-travellers from the left.
That brings us to point two: the left’s constant willingness to embrace evil, in utter, callous, disregard for the consequences.
The most powerful man in Sydney on Sunday leads his pro-Palestine supporters across the Harbour Bridge basking in the global spotlight – and revelling in a sweet victory handed to him by the NSW Supreme Court.
Josh Lees, the 43-year-old Trotskyist who now calls the tune in the harbour city, has captured the nation’s most iconic landmark and plans to use the moment well into the future.
Even for a man who has led more than 85 protests around Sydney since the Hamas terror attack on Israel in October 2023, it was a remarkable feat.
The keffiyeh-wearing Lees has led a string of causes in the last two decades, his exploits on behalf of refugees, LGBTQI rights and against capitalism all breathlessly recorded in the Red Flag, his Socialist Alternative news outlet.
A well-placed source once warned me about Socialist Alternative: whatever they say in public, it’s not the half of what they say in private. This is the genuinely extremist left, with a giddy taste for violence – and a characteristically leftist penchant for marching in lockstep with pure evil.
In the 1970s, the Iranian far left joined forces with the Khomeinist Islamic extremists, to overthrow the Iranian government. As soon as the Khomeinists seized power, they rounded up the left and mass-executed them.
Do the ‘Queers for Palestine’ and Socialist Alternative think Hamas and their Western proxies would be any different? Would they even care, deranged by hate as they are?
Point three: the corrosiveness of what Orwell derided as “‘high-minded’ women… who come nocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat”.
[NSW Supreme Court judge Belinda Rigg] said she accepted Lees’ view that on the timing of the march that “we are at a critical moment, on the issue of Palestinian rights not only due to the crisis in Gaza, itself, but also due to awareness of that crisis brought about by the horrific images, published in the media recently”.
Note, firstly, that Rigg openly ruled, not on a basis of law, but political ideology fuelled by literal fake news. The “horrific images” she prates about were, by even the admission of the legacy media, misleading and presented in false contexts: this is textbook fake news. What does that say about the judge’s critical thinking ability, let alone legal acumen?
At the same time, Rigg fawned over ‘serial pest’ Lees, highlighting that he has to date led protests which, even before Sunday’s march, tied up nearly 20,000 police at a cost now estimated at well over $10 million. She even agreed that the march would likely include violent scenes, traffic gridlocks, ambulances not getting to where they need to go, “and other undesirable consequences”.
Yet, still she ruled that it go ahead: solely because of fake news and Hamas propaganda.
It should surprise no one that Rigg, on being appointed to the Supreme Court of NSW, simpered about her commitment to ‘social justice’ in a ceremony that included no less than three ‘Traditional Acknowledgements’ in just 45 minutes.
