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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court ruled Friday that the government’s decision to outlaw the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful, but it kept the ban in place pending an appeal.
Context for the rest of the world:
Chris Minns is the Premier of the state of NSW (Premier being the state equivalent of Prime Minister) in Australia. Earlier this week, on the invitation of the Prime Minister of the country, Israel’s President Herzog was in Sydney, NSW to commemorate the victims of last December’s Bondi mass shooting at a Hanukkah event. Never mind that he’s an Israeli political leader, not a Jewish religious leader who would have any business being there. And never mind that the shooter’s motivation had nothing to do with the state of Israel (it was an ISIS-inspired shooting, not a Palestinian one).
Anyway, the event saw huge protests all over the country, especially in Sydney. And in Sydney, the police used some of the most brutal tactics we’ve seen in this country. “Kettling”, where one set of police give an order to disperse, while other police refuse to allow them to move that way, effectively forcing protestors into direct conflict with police. Three particularly bad videos emerged, showing (a) police assaulting Muslims who were down on their knees praying, (b) a bicycle officer who tried to attack a protestor in office clothing, but comically fell over his own bike and tripped, leading the protestor to at first try to reflexively catch the guy, before the officer started beating him up while the protestor raised his arms up in the sign of surrender. Then a bunch more officers came in with full on swinging punches. And © a protestor restrained on his belly, as the officer holding him repeatedly close-fist punched him in the neck and around the liver.
At first the police were staunchly standing by the line that they followed all the necessary procedures, public safety, yada yada. The police have since announced that they will be conducting a review, but Minns, the Premier, has still refused to apologise.
Hear hear. Sydney finally ousts the LNP after 12 years and they end up with a LNP religious-right Catholic in Labor clothes with Chris Minn. Its embarrassing, and its no wonder so many Aussies have trouble determining which party is more worthy of their vote.
This post is from nearly two years ago and if it were updated it would have a wealth of new examples such as yours.
I just hope the NSW voters learn that the best way to keep Labor honest is to vote Greens. Greens are such a small part of the vote that you’re unlikely to be voting in any new members (which would be ideal), but rather signalling your core issues as a voter. The Greens almost always share preferences with Labor as they do have loosely-aligned policy goals - and when the Greens vote share increases it signals to Labor that not only do they need to give stronger concessions to the Greens directly to earn their preference votes, but they really need to realign their policies further leftward to have a chance of retaining their power.
Flip-flopping between LNP voting and Labor voting just tells the Labor party that they need to approach a more centrist stance on policies, which is sadly what has been happening for a long time.
More context
Basically he took over leadership of the state branch of the political party he represents because the former leader posted a message in support of the people of Palestine.
His support for Zionism should disqualify him from being a leader in a nation other than Israel.
Holy shit. I had no idea about that!