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What’s been excruciatingly obvious to anyone with a functioning brain cell all along is now a matter of record: Zionist is just a code-word for ‘Jew’. We knew it, the slimy cretins who parrot it knew it and they knew we knew it. The only reason they’ve persisted with the lie is because they’re too gutless to say what they really mean.
Every time I hear some swivel-eyed leftist or Muslim anti-Semite gibber, ‘I’m not anti-Jewish, I’m anti-Zionist’, I feel the same deep revulsion I felt, decades ago, talking to an Alice Springs publican. With a nudge and wink, he smirked, “Hell, I’m not racist. I only let in people who are well-dressed – and I’ve never seen a well-dressed Abo, yet, ha ha.”
In fact, the ‘Zionist’ dodge is even less defensible than that. After all, at least the racist publican was perfectly aware of what ‘Abo’ meant. Challenge the drooling hatemongers of the ‘pro-Palestine’ thugocracy to define Zionist and watch their mouths snap shut. Because a Zionist is simply someone who believes that the Jewish people have a right to live in their indigenous homelands. How is that not anti-Semitic?
A Victorian judge has finally called out the obvious lie. At the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Thursday, Vice President Judge My Anh Tran ruled that ‘pro-Palestinian’ Arab immigrant Hash Tayeh breached the state’s racial and religious vilification laws by leading the chant “All Zionists are terrorists”, in a landmark decision finding the slogan functioned as a proxy attack on Jews.
Just by the by, Tayeh was born in Jordan, a state that was created unilaterally and ex nihilo by the British in 1946. The resurrected modern state of Israel, denounced by the ‘pro-Palestine’ creeps as ‘illegal’, on the other hand, was founded by a full UN vote in the lands occupied by Jewish kingdoms for thousands of years.
But, I digress.
VCAT found that Mr Tayeh contravened sections 7 and 8 of the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act after initiating the chant at a Melbourne CBD rally on March 23 last year.
Still, it took a civil action by a Jewish Australian to even get this action done. The socialist Labor government, full to the gunwales with far-left anti-Semites, simply sat on its hands.
At the rally, Mr Tayeh took a microphone and, after a speech criticising charges laid against him by Victoria Police for using the chant, yelled: “AS LOUD AS YOU CAN! ALL ZIONISTS ARE TERRORISTS!”
The tribunal found that encouraging thousands of people to chant an “absolute statement” attaching “a heinous label (terrorist) to an undifferentiated group of people (All Zionists)” was conduct calculated to incite hatred.
Tran also pointed out that this is not a case of ‘free speech’. As even foundational philosophers of free speech such as J S Mill have long pointed out, free speech does not encompass incitement. Tayeh was, to use Mill’s famous metaphor, inciting an excited mob, with, as we have seen, a high likelihood of violence ensuing.
“In the context of the rally, the natural and ordinary effect of initiating a chant of ‘All Zionists are terrorists’ among rally participants was to incite hatred against the perceived objects of the chant.”
Tran also noted the commonplace of red triangle symbols, a notorious Hamas death-mark, and other signs advocating violence against ‘Zionists’.
Judge Tran also examined Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni’s rhetoric, including a social media post describing “Israel, Zionism and Judaism – the unholy trinity!” and messaging that portrayed Zionists as manipulating governments, police and media – themes the tribunal said echoed longstanding antisemitic tropes of secret control.
“If a people who belong to a particular race (Jewish people); or religion (Judaism) are stereotyped as holding a ‘political’ belief (Zionism); and hatred is incited against them for that reason, then hatred is being incited against them on the ground of their race or religious belief or activity,” Judge Tran wrote in her ruling.
It’s not the end of Tayeh’s legal troubles.
Mr Tayeh is the founder and former chief executive of burger restaurant chain Burgertory. He resigned as CEO of the company less than a month after being hit with a $1m tax bill for debts allegedly run up by 13 companies.
The ruling also raises questions over the conduct of Grace Tame. If Tayeh is guilty of inciting hatred against Jews, where does that leave Tame, with her disgusting calls for ‘intifada’ (violence against Jews) in ‘Gadigal’ (Sydney)? At the very least, Tame must be stripped of her thoroughly undeserved Australian of the Year award.
