Yesterday, NSW Premier Chris Minns made the decision to light up the Opera House sails as a symbol of condolence for the victims of the Hamas terror attack on Israel.

On the same day, a peaceful businessman holding the flag of Israel was dragged through the streets of Sydney by police pleading, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong!’

He was cautioned for breach of the peace. Those who came later shouting, ‘Gas the Jews!’ in front of the Opera House were left untouched.

‘I think the absence of the flag on that national monument would have been conspicuous in its absence and would have led quite naturally and fairly for the Jewish community in NSW to think that the government and the people of this state don’t stand in solidarity with them when we do,’ said Chris Minns.

The Opera House has been lit up several times since Minns made the false claim that the state was ‘too broke’ to honour the coronation of King Charles III with a similar display.

Labor has made a point of using the Opera House as a political billboard – commemorating, for example, a trade trip with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Let me be extremely clear, if the Premier is going to use our national icons and buildings as political props, he must adequately defend them from any physical harm or threat caused by public retribution. He must also protect the nation from the creation of damaging political imagery that has been broadcast across the world.

Is it not enough that Victoria’s Premier, Daniel Andrews, showed our global partners a picture of Australian police shooting innocent civilians with rubber bullets protesting for liberty? Can’t we stop with a gang of Nazis being allowed to paint women’s rallies as ‘hateful events’ to serve the leftwing activist regime? Must we now have our streets overflowing with actual terrorists who call for the extermination of Jews in broad daylight and then later at night by the fire of their illegal flares?

What sort of Australia is this, Chris Minns? How did we end up with so many people who have imported foreign wars and hateful intolerant religious doctrine that is just as barbaric and absolute as National Socialism in its goals? Why are so many of Labor’s Parliamentary allies and journalists rubbing shoulders with this ideology – the Greens, in particular?

Last night, the Premier, his office, and the NSW Police Force wholly failed in their duty of care to the citizens of New South Wales.

Labor claims that ‘the world is watching us’ over the Voice to Parliament (they’re not). Well, Mr Minns, the world is watching you, right now, after seeing images of Israel’s flag in flames while Palestinians danced on the ashes backed by the famous sails of the Opera House.

Instead of dragging out the thousands of heavily armed police we saw employed against the unvaccinated and maskless during Covid, NSW Police issued a warning – not to Hamas sympathisers – but to Sydney’s Jewish population telling them to avoid the Opera House which the state had lit up in sympathy for their suffering.

Despite being aware of the march in celebration of the murder, rape, kidnap, and torture of civilians, NSW Police did nothing to stop it.

While the children of murdered mothers sit in cages, NSW thought it would be a good idea to twiddle their thumbs. We have another word for this: cowardice.

The protest was not ‘peaceful’ – not that there was any reasonable expectation it would be. It marauded from Town Hall to the Opera House shouting:

‘F**k Israel! F**k the Jews!’

They shouted, ‘Allahu Akbar!’ the cry of terrorists that has brought fear and panic to the West since the events of 9/11. No Australian should be confronted in the street by people screaming for the murder of others. That is not our Australia. This is the Australia created by pitiful virtue-signalling elitists who think that phrases such as ‘Gays for Palestine’ have a basis in reality.

The Labor Party spent the last few months brutally blaming Moira Deeming and other women for a handful of childish neo-Nazi cosplayers skulking around the edges of protests – gatecrashes supported by no one, we might add.

And yet today Labor has every capital city in Australia full of thousands of people shouting for the murder and extermination of Jews. Australia’s streets are not safe this morning because greedy leaders have imported a foreign religious war.

How many of these Hamas supporters were arrested after burning flags and setting off illegal flares in a public place?

Or were NSW Police too chicken shit to arrest them, preferring instead to prey upon the elderly during Covid where we saw pensioners thrown to the ground and pushed against police cars…

The only people ‘policed’ in this state are the quiet and obedient citizens whose indiscretions are unbelievably minor compared to the horrors NSW Police walk past on a daily basis.

As far as we can tell, they didn’t arrest anyone last night, instead releasing a statement that they would ‘work with protesters to ensure there are no breaches of the peace and there is minimal impact to the community’.

What rot.

They added that they thought it was better to ‘manage their movement than to try and block it’.

I’m sorry. Since when has the NSW Police Force ‘managed the movement of terror’?

Lakemba descended into a scene from the Middle East with the train station overrun – and entirely unsafe to other commuters – while cars paraded around released flares and breaking every road rule imaginable. A suburb of Sydney became a no-go area for Australians.

Are there no police enforcing traffic laws? Why not? Why do we get done for going 2km/h over the speed limit but trucks shooting flares in the middle of the road are given a free pass? What are NSW Police afraid of and how has it gotten to such a point that police have lost control of the state?

Through your failure as a Premier, you have brought shame to this nation, and to the city of Sydney.

You said that you would ‘not second guess’ the decision to allow a terrorist protest to go ahead. Well, this morning you must resign for endangering the lives of Sydneysiders and abdicating your primary responsibility to the people of this state.

Instead of wrapping our landmarks in glitter and rainbows, why don’t you find out why so many people with murderous and genocidal intent reside in this city? And if they are here, they should be too afraid to voice such opinions publicly. Terrorists should be afraid of the police, not the other way around.

The acting NSW Police Commissioner David Hudson confirmed that they did not approve the protest but rather became aware of it via social media.

That doesn’t explain why it wasn’t stopped. A pregnant woman in Victoria was arrested in front of her children for liking a post about a protest, but we are expected to believe that police made no effort whatsoever to contact those involved in this rally beforehand? Why? What are these double standards?

David Hudson must resign after this enormous violation of trust, failure of safety, and betrayal of the Australian people.

Chris Minns has backed the Acting Police Commissioner, and so he must resign as well, if only for failing to understand the gravity of his mistake and failure of leadership.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said, ‘The scenes we saw last night in Sydney have no place in our country and should be condemned without reservation.’ He is right. This is no different to having ISIS on the streets. Actually, that happened in Sydney too. I ended up face to face with a terrorist holding a sign advocating for the beheading of Westerners – in Pitt Street several years ago. What did the NSW Police do? Nothing. As usual.

NSW Assistant Commissioner Tony Cooke also came out to defend the police over their response saying, ‘Very clearly, my best option was to control and manage the situation … in the end the risks of conflict were avoided,’ he said. ‘This is not about us condoning, supporting [or] facilitating any protest… This is about us providing for the public safety.’ He added it was a ‘strongly emotive issue’.

He must resign too.

Three resignations are owed to the people of NSW after a night of shame.

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Flat White is written and edited by Alexandra Marshall

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