Letter

In response to Cowardice dressed up as authority on Sydney’s streets

Restraint on excess

Stuart displays admirable restraint in his response to the fascist thuggery displayed by Police at the Anti-Israel protest that accompanied the shameful visit of the Israeli President, at Australia’s invitation.

It is difficult to accept the supine satrapy and moral vacuity of the Australian and NSW governments, in blithely ignoring the vast genocide and grotesque criminality of the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza. The clear racism involved in the actions of both governments will come back to haunt therm and hopefully soon. As the Australian government has cravenly refused to obey international law just to please the tangerine Daddy in Washington, their spinelessness compared to the Canadian PM is illustrative of what Hanna Arendt described as the “banality of evil”.

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041