“Death to the IDF.” “From the river to the sea.” “Globalise the Intifada.”

These are not political slogans. They are not cries of resistance. They are not pleas for justice. They are threats cold, calculated, and choreographed. And they are now the background music of Australian city streets.

One might once have mistaken them for the rabble of radical fringes. But not now. Not when they’re chanted outside Jewish schools. Not when they appear on banners waved gleefully at rallies attended by professors, lawyers, and aspiring parliamentarians. Not when the slogans in question call by any honest reading for the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state and the globalisation of the terrorist campaigns that have plagued it.

Yet somehow, we are told to look away. Worse we are told this is free speech.

The Myth of “Political Protest”

Let us be clear: “Death to the IDF” is not a comment on military policy. For most diaspora Jews, the IDF is not some remote abstraction. It is their children. Their cousins. Their classmates. For many Australians of Jewish descent, it is personal.

“From the river to the sea” so often portrayed as a rallying cry for peace is no such thing. It refers to a territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. That’s not a two-state solution.........

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