There is no Promised Land

We are now very far down the dark road. From the arts to academia to healthcare to schooling to the public sector to the media, the ongoing effort to purge anti-Zionism (and, by association, people of Middle Eastern and North African heritage) from Australian life has reached McCarthyism levels.

Federal and state governments are falling over themselves to strip away the foundational elements of democratic society — freedom of expression, the right to protest, the right of due process — in the name of “social cohesion”. The country’s largest news organisation is trying to instigate violent confrontations on city streets for clicks and publishing long screeds about how Australian multiculturalism has failed.