Are the SA Police Commissioner and Government Complicit in Terror?
The headline is not clickbait, but a valid question that needs to be asked.
As reported in the Adelaide Advertiser on Thursday 3 October (page 7) and Friday 4 October (page 11), the South Australian Police Commissioner and SA Government have allowed the pro-Palestinian protests to proceed even though the protesters have been showing Hamas and Hezbollah banners and flags.
Both Hamas and Hezbollah are proscribed terrorist organisations according to the Federal Government.
October 7th, of course, is the first anniversary of the horrendous Hamas attack on Israel, killing 1,200+, injuring 3,500+, and kidnapping over 250, of which around 100 are still in captivity (albeit only half are probably still alive). Not to mention the brutal rapes, baby burning, and acts of torture perpetrated on civilians. This was the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust in World War II.
News Commentary
Adelaide Advertiser, Thursday 3 October, page 7
The South Australian parliament has approved a protest by a pro-Palestinian group on the first anniversary of the October 7 terrorist atrocity, prompting pleas to Premier Peter Malinauskas to call on police to cancel it.
Independent MLC Frank Pangallo has written letters urging Mr Malinauskas and Police Commissioner Grant Stevens to ban pro-Palestine protests scheduled for this Sunday October 6, as well as a 15-hour demonstration to take place on the anniversary of the attacks.
Thank you, Frank Pangallo, for standing for what is right.
The two Justice for Palestine events have been organised by Lil Aqsa [A.K.A Habibah Jaghoori], who was sacked from the editorship of the Adelaide University student magazine for extreme views] and will be staged on the steps of Parliament House, according to a schedule of approved demonstrations that has been circulated to MPs. Similar protests due to take place in Sydney over the weekend have been challenged by NSW Police, which has applied to the Supreme Court to have the events cancelled.
Mr Pangallo said he was fearful that the Adelaide-based events also had the potential to escalate, “causing trouble and potential harm to people”. “While I am a strong supporter of free speech and the democratic right to peaceful protests and assembly, these protests are likely to be quite incendiary given the volatile events that have marred similar recent protests interstate where protesters showed their support for prescribed terrorist organisations, Hamas and Hezbollah,” he said. “These dates represent days of mourning for Israel and thousands of Jewish people.
Adelaide Advertiser, Friday 4 October, page 11
SA Police says it looked into whether it should stop the October 7 pro-Palestinian protest planned for Adelaide but ultimately decided the demonstration would not “unduly prejudice any public interest” and could go ahead.
It beggars belief, but how is chanting support for terrorists and calling for the death of Jews in any way in the public interest?
The Police Commissioner [Grant Stevens] has the authority to stop a protest under the Public Assemblies Act.
And why not? These protests are not just an issue of free speech but blatant support for terrorists and murders.
However, Assistant Commissioner Scott Duval said after checking the legislation, SA Police ultimately determined the protest did not meet the criteria for objection. “We’ve looked at the requirements that exist under the Public Assemblies Act to lodge an objection and we believe that threshold is not met,” he said.
Does this threshold allow for the support of terrorists and murderers? Surely not! Yet here we are arguing for sanity and respect for the Jewish community.
A call for another Holocaust!
I completely support free speech and peaceful protest, but these terror supporters are beyond anything reasonable, they cry out for the death of all Jews (not just those in Israel).
Note that the real meaning of the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is much more sinister.
The original Arabic slogan, “Min al-nahr ila al-bahr, Filastin sa-takun hurrah,” translates to “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” However, some versions of the slogan include the phrase “Filastin sa-takun ‘Arabiyah,” which means “Palestine will be Arab,” or even “Filastin sa-takun Islamiyah,” meaning “Palestine will be Muslim.“
We are hearing the Arabic versions used here in Adelaide (via the advice of Arabic speakers we know). It is a call for another Holocaust. I have personally heard these protesters say things like “Hitler should have finished the job” and “Jews were doing bad things and deserved the Holocaust” etc. This is just pure hatred of God’s beloved people and a deep outworking of anti-Semitism.
Nel and I often attend the fortnightly Bring the Hostages Home vigils in the Adelaide Rundle Mall with friends in the local Jewish community; the local pro-Palestinian protests are happening at the same time on the steps of our parliament house. The pro-Palestinian protestors hurl abuse at the vigil as they walk past.
Sometimes, with violence threatened, the police do thankfully intervene, but never arrest the protestors, which is bizarre. The attending police are wonderful, and we are very grateful, but they are constrained in actions by the police hierarchy and rules.
Conclusion and Action
Yes, both the SA Police Commissioner and Government are complicit in terror and murder by allowing such protests to proceed. As are all states allowing these types of protests. We must speak up and take action to stop this madness. How can we have a civil society when our leadership are pro-death?
We need to call out all this travesty by calling and writing to your government representatives and state police commissioner.
I have lodged a formal Police complaint citing Commission Grant Stevens as being complicit. Why? Because if we don’t speak up, things will get worse. We cannot allow the flaunting of our laws, specifically that you may not support or allow support for proscribed terrorist organisations.
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Thank you Kym. You voice my deep concerns after traumatic experiences at the hands of the pro-Palestinians. On several occasions, one long lasting! I have written to the SA Premier re this. Diana Hewitt.
Thanks Dianna. Your heart for Israel and the Jewish people is a blessing. Thanks for standing with us.
Well said Kym. And thank you for making a stand, against the UNLAWFUL stand taken by both the Government and the SA Police Commissioner.
Both Hamas and Hezbollah are proscribed terrorist organisations according to the Federal Government.
Thanks Ian. We need to make a stand now. Tomorrow is too late.
North Terrace should be filled with Thousands of peace loving truth seeking silent God loving and Israel loving people lining the street in a peaceful quiet vigil as these terrorist supporting Israel hating groups parade through our once undivided country
Thanks Neville. Ideally the Church should be standing with the Jewish community en-mass in this difficult time. Today the Saturday people, tomorrow the Sunday people.
Great article!!!!!
Thanks Kym for the advice. Similarly in Sydney, despite the police initially wanting to stop the protest, especially on Oct 7, they have caved in. Allegedly 7th will be a ‘vigil’, but there will be protests on Sunday October 6th – a celebration of murder, rape, hostage taking and death of innocent civilians. Is this what we are inviting in our country? We have laws against this vilification of the Jews but they are not being enforced. Is anyone noticing the huge cost on community cohesion, the financial cost of police presence, not to mention the mess left behind to be cleaned up? Wake up, Australia! Return to God that He might have mercy.
Thanks Kym – straight to the point – and Teri K’s elaborating comments – amen, return to God that He might have mercy.
“Lawlessness”….not only the breaking of the law but the refusal to enforce it.
unitedly we bend our knees look up to the hills from where the help comes and be still as the Jericho walls fell down God the almighty God will do the best for us.
unitedly we bend our knees look up to the hills from where the help comes and be still as the Jericho walls fell down God will work for us
I am an ex-South Australian. Adelaide was known as “The City of Churches “. Mass migration from countries which do not share our values on liberty and whose aim is to radically change the governance of our country into a Theocracy is a cancer . Today these supporters of murder demonstrate for the extinction of the Jewish people, tomorrow all of us who do not share their religion are next on their hit list ! This call for the extinction of the Jewish people is not new because in WW2 the Grand Iman of Jerusalem supported Hitler and there were special battalions of Muslims who fought with the Nazis .
There were Muslim Waffen SS divisions in WW2 fighting with the Nazis. Latest news is that Muslim political Parties will contest the next election in every State . Those same idiot Australians who demonstrate in support of Terrorist murderers and Marxism, will vote for them, ie against the principles of Liberty. Eventually, they will demand a new pro-Muslim Australian Constitution . This is Multiculturalism, imported hatred and divisiveness. In my opinion, every State leader who permits these demonstrations in support of Terrorist Murderers is an Enemy of Peace and our Australian Constitution. Our biggest concern is not Chinese aggression, but, the Enemy within !
Thank you Kym for sharing what went on in Adelaide this year for the Jewish remembrance day of Oct 7 in Adelaide. Thanking God for your honest report and for the Independent MP Frank Pangallon who made a stand to try to protect the Jewish event on that day so grieving people could meet as a group. They long to join together in peace and to see the hostages brought home, but they have a heavy heart for those who have been lost to the Hamas terrorists and the IDF who have ‘fallen’. The last thing they needed was to have a competing radical Palestinian group to ‘gate crash’ their remembrance event.
That remembrance event is sacred and should have been for them alone.
It is tragic to read that the police backed down. It was possibly a decision made due to fear of retribution (e.g. burning down the police station) but no matter what the comeback is, each state must make a stand for truth, for integrity and to protect the Jewish people at this time and on such a Holy day.
I hope and pray the decision is changed for next year. I also pray the blindfolds come off all MPs. Police and the youth who have been taught to chant ‘from the river to the sea’ for they truly are blinded by a false narrative. God gave the land to Israel and in 1948 the League of nations gave the land to those with a Jewish ancestry. In that time some Palestinians chose to stay in the land of Israel and others moved out. The others were from many varied Arab nations and should have returned to their Arab homeland but they didn’t. Instead they became ‘refugees’ (so called) but had an Arab ancestry and could have lived in peace. Within days the Arab countries round Israel attacked the land in 1948 and the holocaust survivors, the young and old had to go to war against their neighbors. They won but at a great cost t their own people.
These facts should be taught in schools but instead we have the false narrative implying Israel wasn’t a legitimate nation. However it was and God stamped His name upon the people and the land.. The truth can never be erased no matter how many lies are told…so those who slander the Jewish people and want to wipe them off the face of the earth, must content with God.
Our Govt and Police need to know those historical facts as well and not to cave into the radicals who have come here to cause trouble to Jewish people or who have been indoctrinated in our mosques or by other.
Former Muslims who know the agenda have given warning also (e.g. The Son of the Hamas wrote a book about his change of beliefs after seeing the Terrorist agenda was a lie and Christian values need protecting and Jewish people)
As you have said, Kym, we need to make a stand now and I pray the blindfolds come off those who have not studied the true situation.