Ultimately, the response to this shooting accelerates what was already brewing: heightened powers, intensified surveillance, and violence against organizing, now legitimized.
https://x.com/MaryKostakidis/status/2002143466059604323
Mondoweiss:
'Jillian Segal – Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism and an executive member of Australia’s peak Zionist lobby group, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry – drew an explicit line between a march across Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of Palestine to mass murder.'
'Politicians and media amplified the connection without challenge. No evidence connected the attack to Palestinian movement work, but that didn’t matter. Suddenly, a shooting with no connection to Palestine had become proof that Palestine solidarity leads to mass murder, justifying repression that was already planned.'
'NSW Premier Chris Minns recalled parliament to pass laws allowing police to reject protest applications under a “terrorism designation”. He claimed mass demonstrations could “light a flame impossible to extinguish,” effectively designating Palestine protests – which have sustained nearly weekly demonstrations for over two years, making them among the most enduring solidarity movements in Australian history – as potential terrorism, giving police the power to ban them. '
'Minns also indicated that he is open to arming the Community Security Group – a private organization with documented ties to Israeli intelligence – to operate at public events, with Victoria already allocating $900,000 to the group in the wake of the Bondi attack. (An Australian Defence Force officer recently lost his security clearance for “divided loyalty” after CSG training in Israel). Essentially, a foreign-aligned militia could be deputized to police Australian streets and surveil organizers.'
'Ultimately, the response to this shooting accelerates what was already brewing: heightened powers, intensified surveillance, and violence against organizing, now legitimized. State repression doesn’t require a connection between incident and response. It requires opportunity.'
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