The parent are just using their kids as human shields. It's the parents fault.

Come back and complain when ca. 300 jewish children have been blown apart by bombs.

Dane,

Do you realise how despicable that sounds ? That Jewish kids can be terrorised in Sydney because of what may be happening on the other side of the world ?

Arjay,

The Rockefellers weren't Jewish, I think they were Episcopalians or Methodists. But the gist of what you write is that Jewish kids can be terrorised in Sydney because of what may be happening on the other side of the world ?

Wow, the Anti-Semites are coming out, from both 'Left' and Right !

Joe

Loudmouth:
Why do you say that people who have opinions about Jewish behaviour which are different to yours are anti-Semitic? This is deeply offensive but of course 18c does not come to the rescue in this case. Would you have the courage to call someone anti-Semitic if you were not so anonymous? Calling someone anti-Semitic in a public place where the identity of the person is known might make you guilty of libel. There could be great damage done to a person’s reputation if it were to emerge that they were thought to be anti-Semitic. Unless you could show conclusively that the accused had discriminated in their behaviour towards Jews then you would be in very hot water.

That damage is compounded not because Jews are any more affected by discrimination than any other group but because they have a disproportionate power to other groups. If you look at business institutions, media outlets and other organisations of power they have power that can easily be abused and it is this power that can cause damage to anyone even suspected of being anti-Semitic. For this reason alone you should be very careful about tossing around such accusations.

It is also a sign of great defensiveness when you call people names in response to their opinions. Calling someone anti-Semitic simply because they do not agree with the Jewish analysis of their own behaviour is clutching at straws. If you don’t agree then make a contrary argument and be content with that.

Calling someone else’s opinions ‘despicable’ also shows a very defensive attitude. An opinion is just that - you either agree with it or you do not and that is all you need to say. Opinions cannot be ‘despicable’ only people can be despicable and if that is what you are trying to suggest then this issue really has touched a nerve in you.

Well said phantom. In a quiet Australian voice, forthright and in the traditions of our great western traditions.

This is the only way we can deal with people who want us to change to embrace the vengeance and violence inherent in the traditions of their dark age religions. Both Jewish and Islamic.
Show how we differ, how our traditions ensure peace and how it is best for us all in the long run.

Well done.

imajulia,
Yes, fine but the ECAJ and similar Zionist entities are interfering in the operation of the government to an extent which borders on corruption.
That's a problem which can't be addressed with good manners and common sense.
Criticising Jewish lobbyists is political suicide, only people like Malcolm Fraser can get away with it because they're old, rich and mostly no longer effective in rallying people around them.
Remember the outcry over John Howard and the Plymouth Brethren?
If a Christian or Muslim group succeeded in lobbying a government department to secure a certain outcome, like a visa ban the Leftist media would hit the roof, you'd never hear the end of it.
Geert Wilders is a far more dangerous figure than Bishop Williamson yet he is allowed entry into the country, we know why, his wife is Jewish, he supports Israel and promotes the Holocaust narrative.

This is interesting.

I can find no reference to the school attended by the students who abused the Jewish children on the bus.

From experience this normally means only one thing, they were from a prestigious private school.

My editor mate who works for the Murdoch papers says while public schools are fair game reporting on misdeeds by private school students is very fraught.

Australia now has over 30 percent of its high school student body attending selective private schools. It offends my sense of what this country should be about but also flags these sort of incidents are likely to increase rather than decrease.