EDITORIAL: October 7 Pro-Palestine rallies must not be allowed to go ahead

Any rally in Australia on Monday, October 7 should be seen for what it is — a shameful and disgusting racial and religious incitement.

It should and will be interpreted by every decent Australian, whatever their background or beliefs, as a deliberately despicable, provocative and pathetic attack on Western values and decency. It has to be seen as a celebration of a massacre.

There can be no other possible explanation or excuse for specifically choosing the anniversary of the mass slaughter, rape and hostage-taking by Islamist militia of innocent men women and children.

We have heard a lot of noise, words and angst from Federal and State leaders about the rallies “for Palestine and Lebanon”. They should stop talking and act.

As we have heard repeatedly, even from Anthony Albanese, October 7 was the bloodiest day in Israel’s history. The deadliest day for Jews outside the Holocaust.

These words fall from the lips of too many in a scripted and ineffectual fashion. They do not reflect the true horror of that day. Nor do they capture the absolutely barbaric brains of the psychotic Hamas leaders who planned it, or the cowardly men who executed it.

Organisers, buoyed by the lack of action from Australian authorities, will claim the purpose of these gatherings is not to celebrate death, but to stand “in solidarity” with the Palestinian people.

This is an outrageous lie.

It is insulting in its transparency.

It is true that the Palestinians of Gaza have suffered since the murderous madness of Hamas brought war to their homes.

Thousands of people have been killed in Gaza for one reason alone — Hamas incited Israel’s military action, and the terrorist leaders, inspired and sponsored by the rogue state of Iran, have sacrificed their own people, using civilians as shields and weapons. All while refusing to lay down their arms, hand back hostages and end the war.

Palestinians and their supporters, including many here in Australia, are well within their rights to march through our streets demanding peace.

On any other day.

Not that day.

Rallies planned for October 7 in Sydney and Melbourne must not be allowed to go ahead.

Organisers of these revolting rallies say attempts by authorities to prevent them are an attack on their freedom of speech. These are duplicitous and deranged. This is a mentality that has no place in our otherwise healthy and mature multicultural society.

Many hundreds of rallies and demonstrations have been held across the country in support of Palestine in the past year.

Most have been peaceful. Some have not, such as the notorious Sydney Opera House protest last October, and the Hezbollah rallies last week.

Any march this October 7 is reprehensible. This insidious creep of hatred under the guise of “social cohesion” must be called out and stopped.

It is indecent and un-Australian.