Despite the worst fears of NSW Police and Premier Chris Minns, Sunday’s pro-Palestine protest on the Harbour Bridge will be remembered as the day Sydney turned out en masse to plead for humanity. Protesting against a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has entered the mainstream.

There is no other way to explain the reported 90,000 people who braved horrendous wet weather to walk – or, for a large part, stand – to demand an end to a worsening famine in the occupied territory.

No one should suggest that the city had turned its back on our Jewish community. Rather, many ordinary Sydneysiders felt strongly enough about the crisis in Gaza that they saw it necessary to join the masses and cross the city’s most iconic landmark.

Undoubtedly, there would have been bad-faith actors who........

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