- by Peter Farmer
- The Guardian
- Issue #2158
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is standing solidly with the Netanyahu line that any criticism of an ongoing genocide is akin to Nazism. Investigation by Australian website Deepcut has found Instagram posts by Elizabeth Colman, editor of the Weekend Australian Magazine implying that the estimated 300,000 people who marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the thousands who marched around Australia to demand government action to support aid for Palestine were equivalent to Nazis.
March organisers aren’t impressed. The Jewish Council of Australia’s chief executive described the News attack line as cheapening the memory of the Holocaust “with the aim of legitimating Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.” The Muslim Vote advocacy group told Deepcut that Colman was sanitising real authoritianism. The Palestine Action Group’s Amal Naser described her views as “on the wrong side of history.”
The false equivalence doesn’t seem to have fooled many, with organisations like Jews Against the Occuption showing up to rallies supporting Palestine week in, week out.
