Oh well, that’s OK then

NSW Police’s intrepid sleuths have concluded after very nearly four months of deep deliberation and turning up the volume to eleven that the mob of flare-throwing, hate-screaming anti-Semites who gathered at the Opera House to celebrate October 7’s Islamic festival of slaughter, rape and abduction weren’t chanting ‘Gas the Jews’, not at all.

Is it that, in the name of diversity, the caring, sensitive and community-attuned brass have taken to recruiting the hearing-impaired? That must be considered a possibility, for it might explain why the audio track of videos (like this one) haven’t been heard for what they clearly are.

But no, the police are insistent those Hamas supporters were simply shouting “Where’s the Jews?”, which makes no sense but apparently a world of difference, especially to police overtime costs. As Tony Thomas recently documented in his three-part series on the Cronulla ‘riot’ and its aftermath, car convoys of Muslim vigilantes once again roaming Sydney to bash random dhimmis and fire-bomb infidel churches is a prospect to be avoided. Golly, it might spawn an outbreak of Islamophobia!

Hear no evil, see no evil, prosecute no evil — might that make a better NSW police motto than the current ‘Punishment follows closely upon the heels of crime‘? Well, sometimes.

The Jewish NSW Board of Deputies quite rightly notes that, even if ‘Gas the Jews’ was never uttered, that doesn’t alter much of anything:

…We note that several individuals provided statements to the Police indicating that they heard the phrase “Gas the Jews”, but it is not necessary to get hung up on what precise antisemitic phrase was chanted on the evening.

Demonstrators were either calling for Jews to be gassed or seeking to hunt Jews in the mould of antisemitic mobs of days gone by. Either is wicked and worthy of contempt. This was a despicable demonstration of hatred and vilification.

It is curious that groups and individuals who could never bring themselves to condemn the events of 7 October or the Opera House hate protest (or hate preachers, for that matter), are now claiming the results of the Police investigation as a victory.

It says everything that these groups have no shame in accepting that they chanted “F*** the Jews” and “Where’s the Jews?” but present themselves as beyond reproach when the evidentiary burden for concluding they chanted “Gas the Jews” isn’t met.

Ah, diversity and multiculturalism and community-focused policing, where would we be without them!

— rf