For Melbournians, the Myers Christmas Windows have been a beloved tradition for nearly 70 years. Every year since 1956, the year of the Melbourne Olympics, the wide display windows on Bourke Street have featured elaborate Christmas displays. For generations of families, from Melbourne and the countryside, a trip into the city to see the famous Christmas windows was a magical treat for children.
Now the ‘pro-Palestinian’ thugs have come to town.
A decades old tradition will be scrapped as pro-Palestine activists threaten to disrupt the opening of the iconic Myer Christmas Windows, ignoring pleas from police to respect the holiday ritual. Disrupt Wars will converge on Bourke Street Mall on Sunday, protesting against Myer’s “share the joy” campaign by insisting “there is no joy in genocide”.
“Christmas is cancelled, and there will be no joy or frivolity while children in Gaza are massacred,” a statement from the group reads.
Funny – they never protested for all the years that children were being killed in other wars around the world. I’m sure it’s just coincidental, too, that Myer was famously founded by a Jewish businessman/philanthropist.
These hateful goons aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, though.
Organiser, Amy, said children in Australia shouldn’t have “more rights to enjoy Christmas than the children in Palestine”.
Has anybody told her that ‘Palestinians’ are Muslims and don’t celebrate Christmas at all?
Still, she might be a moron, but at least she’s honest about one thing: “We’re seeking to interrupt the fun and joy that Myer wants us to share.”
Recently re-elected Melbourne lord mayor Nick Reece told ABC Radio Melbourne the protesters were “ruining Christmas for the rest of us”.
Senior opposition MP Georgie Crozier said it was an “incredibly disappointing” situation […]
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen condemned the planned protest.
“I’m just furious that a really small group of people have not only chosen to politicise what is a beautiful event for children and for our community … (but to) use it to try and divide us,” she told ABC Radio Melbourne.
OK, so what are you going to do about it? You’re the premier, remember?
Victoria Police said it had “repeatedly requested” protesters not disrupt the event.
“However, the group is not co-operating with police,” it said.
This from the same police force that turned out with armoured anti-terrorism vehicles, rubber bullets and tear gas for people asking for their freedom.
Ms Crozier said the Victorian government had been “impotent dealing with these activists for many months”.
Exactly who is running the state?
