Australian lawmakers have banned the performance of the Nazi salute in public and outlawed the display or sale of Nazi hate symbols such as the swastika in landmark legislation that went into effect in the country Monday. The new laws also make the act of glorifying OR praising acts of terrorism a criminal offense.
The crime of publicly performing the Nazi salute or displaying the Nazi swastika is punishable by up to 12 months in prison, according to the Reuters news agency.
Mark Dreyfus, Australia’s Attorney-General, said in a press release Monday that the laws — the first of their kind in the country — sent “a clear message: there is no place in Australia for acts and symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust and terrorist acts.”
This is false. There has been a crackdown on pro-Hamas groups.
Rule of thumb: If you want to organise a protest, a) don’t shout “gas the Jews”, and b) make sure to not invite people shouting “gas the Jews”. Or tolerate them at your protest.
There’s certainly been more and bigger pro-Palestine demonstrations than pro-Israeli ones. Differs from city to city, not because of differing legal standards but different local situations.
E.g. do you remember the feigned outrage when Berlin, quite a bit before the attack, outlawed Nakba protests? What the people complaining generally don’t notice are the reasons, and that is that in past years, they turned violent, and organisers had no argument as to why this time around would be different. They didn’t do their homework.