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No evidence of antisemitic 'gas' chant at pro-Palestinian Sydney protest, police find (www.sbs.com.au)

submitted 1 year ago by Deceptichum@kbin.social to c/world@lemmy.world

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Edited footage of protesters chanting "gas the Jews" at a rally outside the Sydney Opera House in October was shared on social media, but NSW Police said an extensive investigation found no evidence of it happening.

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"As a result of that examination, the expert has concluded with overwhelming certainty that the phrase chanted during that protest, as recorded on the audio and visual files, was "Where's the Jews?" he said.

"Not another phrase, as otherwise widely reported."

When asked whether there was evidence of other antisemitic phrases being used at the rally, Lanyon said "certainly".

"There is evidence of that, and those are offensive and completely unacceptable," he said.

"But I think the major contention has been about the phrase that was chanted, and quite emphatically, our expert has said that it is 'Where's the Jews?'"

Thank goodness, "where's (sic) the Jews" instead of "gas the Jews", just two days after the Oct 7 killings and mass rapes by Hamas, definitely makes it much better /s

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How dare they ask why Jewish voices aren’t also against Israel’s horrific response at a rally aimed at our governments blind support for Israel and the now obvious to everyone genocide of Palestinians.

Instead there was only lies spread to say they were calling for genocide of Jewish people.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

If that's the reason why they were yelling that, it's racist even if it's not genocidal. Substitute any other ethnicity or race into that sentence. Demanding that Jews attend a protest or swear a loyalty oath is racist -- the same way it would be if a bunch of people were yelling "where's the Blacks?" or "where's the Muslims?"

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're grasping at straws, you clearly didn't read the article (and don't want to), so I quote the relevant passage for you as you seem to only have read the headline:

When asked whether there was evidence of other antisemitic phrases being used at the rally, Lanyon said “certainly”.

That + repeating "where's the Jews" during a rally immediately 2 days after Hamas' killings and mass rapes on October 7th is definitely indefensible and certainly is incompatible with how you want it to be interpreted.

You hoped that this article would be a gotcha moment but you seem to not have read anything beyond the headline, because the article is actually still pretty damning.