When the chips are down, the people unite

August 4, 2025

It is difficult to disagree with Cynthia in her summary of the poison informing those who equate criticism of Israel with that much abused word, antisemitism. It is difficult for ordinary citizens of the world to grasp the depth and extent of the daily atrocities being carried out by the members of the “most moral army in the world”.

It is as difficult for them to comprehend the active participation in this daily barbarity by the mainstream media and their servile journalists and editors. In countries around the world, people have finally had enough and are massing in their millions to force their craven and complicit political leaders to search deep into the recesses of what passes for their minds to find a memory of whatever courage they might once have had.

Truly, this is what democracy in the Athenian tradition would teach. Go into the public square and teach their leaders that courage arises out of compassion for their fellows of whatever race, creed or religion. Yesterday’s Harbour Bridge march should teach them the wisdom of Voltaire when he wrote “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”