‘From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada!’ This cry rang out on Monday night at an angry protest in central Sydney (trendily-named Gadigal by radical Aboriginal activists). But it wasn’t simply the chant of an angry pro-Palestine mob. The firebrand demagogue who spat out this invective, which proceeded a violent protest against the visit to Sydney of Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, was no ordinary activist. She was Grace Tame, the 2021 recipient of one of Australia’s highest public honours: Australian of the Year.

Herzog is in Australia on a state visit, organised urgently after Bondi’s Hanukkah massacre not quite two months ago. His purpose is simple: to mourn with Australia’s Jewish community, to console and show solidarity with them on behalf of the people of Israel.

What occurred in Sydney, Melbourne and other Australian cities on Monday night was as ugly as the hatred-filled ‘protests’ that started outside the Sydney Opera House on 9 October 2023, with its spontaneous chants of ‘F*** the Jews’........

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