The historic Sydney Harbour Bridge protest for Palestine on Gadigal Country on August 3 proved what opinion polls had already shown: A majority want federal Labor to sanction Israel for its genocidal starvation policy. This has Labor, both state and federal, worried that they are losing the so-called “middle ground”.

Immediately after the march, federal Labor ministers were clearly reeling from the images of hundreds of thousands of people standing in the rain for hours for Palestine; they know many were joining their first protest.

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It has taken two years of sustained protests to bring up to 300,000 people out in the pouring rain.

Even seasoned protesters were reeling — but for different reasons. It was welcome proof that people agreed with the movement’s demands and rejected the government’s kowtowing to the Zionist lobby.

The mass of humanity on that iconic bridge has federal and state Labor MPs worried that their own base is angry with Labor’s shameful complicity in the genocide, particularly because PM Anthony Albanese used to champion justice for Palestine.

Labor is now looking for cover and its sudden rush to support a two-state solution may be........

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