The President of the United States is in the process of negotiating the finer details of an historic ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. So, why are pro-Palestinian protests still taking place?

Around eight thousand gathered in Sydney’s Hyde Park, a few thousand in the Melbourne CBD, and hundreds in Brisbane over the weekend. They were shouting the same thing, Globalise the intifada!

Now there is a peace deal on the table, surely the goal of these rallies has been achieved and all of the dreadful human suffering facilitated by Hamas ameliorated?

The fact the protests are continuing reveals the true motive … not to end the suffering of the people in Gaza, but to put an end the nation of Israel. Ironically, therein is the true genocide.

Ever willing to play the victim, pro-Palestinian activists objected that their right to free speech was infringed upon because they were banned from holding a protest rally at the Sydney Opera House. But this was only due to extreme public safety risk as the forecourt can only hold approximately 6,000 people. As we were shown over the weekend, nothing prevented them from holding their political pit party in places such as Hyde Park.

When one of the organisers for the pro-Palestinian rallies was asked by a reporter outside the Supreme Court why the protests were still going ahead – even though a 48-hour ceasefire had been issued – he answered:

‘…this goes beyond the genocide which has happened over the past two years.’

‘Obviously, it’s important because Israel has only been able to carry out a genocide because they have been armed by countries like Australia and the United States because of the political support that they’ve received from those governments.

‘We’ve seen hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lost their life because of that complicity.

‘We need to end the policy of complicity with an apartheid regime which has been oppressing Palestinians since 1947.’

One would think that the announcement of a ceasefire would be a cause for celebration for the pro-Palestine cause… Peace doesn’t appear to suit their political purposes as it doesn’t achieve their real ideological agenda.

The accusation of genocide is not only factually wrong – Israel could have wiped out everyone living Gaza if they had wanted too – but what is now clear is that the true goal of the pro-Palestinian protestors is a genocide of the Jews from the land of Israel.

Just consider both the location as well as the timing of the protests which took place over the weekend. Not only did they first attempt to use a major Australian landmark, but they wanted to do it on the anniversary of Hamas raping and killing more than 1,200 Israeli civilians (including 38 children) and taking 240 people hostage.

What many people fail to consider, especially in the West, is the religious dimension to this whole issue. Integral to many branches of Islamic theology, such as those we see in Palestine, is the destruction of the Jewish people. While their hostility to Israel may seem like only a geopolitical tension, the truth is it runs much deeper than that.

In Shia eschatology in particular, which is the religious expression energising the leadership of Hamas, Israel is seen as a symbol of corruption and injustice, especially in the ‘last days’. Hence, their anti-Zionism is more than just political, it’s profoundly eschatological and apocalyptic.

Scholars such Dr Tim Orr insightfully explain how Islamic proselytisation seeks to works itself out in practice. As Dr Orr has written in The Canberra Declaration:

At the heart of this protest lies a theological worldview that fuses political Islam with revolutionary identity politics. Islam’s conception of the ummah, or global Muslim community, transcends borders, tying believers together through shared prayer, history, and sacred land.

The Palestinian cause, in particular, carries immense religious weight, as many Muslims believe the land of Palestine is waqf, a divinely ordained trust that cannot be ceded without betraying Islam. Radical Islamic movements like Hamas frame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a cosmic struggle between faith and unbelief, dignity and humiliation – a framing that is also echoed by other Islamist groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Mainstream Muslims, while often taking a more tempered view compared to radical Islamic perspectives, are often exposed to rhetoric that vilifies Israel, especially through digital platforms and sermons by prominent clerics. This trend is observable in widely circulated religious broadcasts and social media channels that frame anti-Israel sentiment as a theological imperative.

Hence, this is why all of the rhetoric about ‘ethnic cleansing’ is not only ever going in one way, it’s explicitly stated in their mindless mantra: From the River to the Sea.

The fact that so many well-intentioned – but terribly naïve – people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge a few weeks ago shows just what ‘useful idiots’ they were.

Not only that, but it also demonstrates not just how effective the Pro-Palestinian propaganda campaign has been, but also why these Pro-Palestinian protest rallies are not going to stop until every last Jew in the land of Israel is removed.