The powerful Jewish Lobby in Australia has openly come out against an attempt by that nation’s government to lift restrictions on freedom of speech, reports in the Jewish media have announced.
The government of prime minister Tony Abbott made it an election promise last year to remove key sections of the Racial Discrimination Act that it says make it illegal to “hurt the feelings of others”, while adding new provisions it says will boost protection against racism.
The Government’s approach has been welcomed by conservatives and the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs.
The Government wants to repeal four sections of the Act, including 18C, which makes it unlawful for someone to publicly “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate” a person or a group of people.
“It is not, in the Government’s view, the role of the State to ban conduct merely because it might hurt the feelings of others,” Attorney-General George Brandis said when the law change was introduced.
The Government wants to retain as an offence any action that would “intimidate another person” and create a new clause making it illegal to “vilify another person” on the basis of “race, colour or national or ethnic origin”.
“To intimidate a person is to cause them to be fearful,” Senator Brandis explained. “That is an entirely different state of mind, it is an entirely different concept.”
Tony Abbott said Australia’s democracy and freedom depended on free speech.
“Of course this Government is determined to try to ensure that Australia remains a free and fair and tolerant society, where bigotry and racism has no place,” Mr Abbott said.
“But we also want this country to be a nation where freedom of speech is enjoyed.”
The reaction in the Jewish media on the other hand, reveals precisely how deeply the Jewish Supremacists hate freedom of speech.
In an article in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, headed “Australian Jewish leaders decry proposed changes to hate laws,” it was reported that “Jewish leaders in Australia slammed the federal government’s proposed amendments to the nation’s race hate laws.”
According to the Jewish Press—of course not meant for Gentile readers—Robert Goot, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said the draft law was “deeply flawed” and “rips up key protections” for ethnic groups in Australia.
Dr. Colin Rubenstein, of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, said, “To pass the amendments as they stand would risk emboldening racists, threatening the quality of life of ethnic minorities in Australia, and seriously straining the fabric of our social cohesion and harmony.”
Meanwhile, in Israel, hate speech flourishes, Palestinians are murdered, that nation has laws forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and the Zionist Supremacists even refuse to offer peace unless the Palestinians accept a Jews-only state—but the Australian Jewish leaders are somehow silent about Jewish racism…..
