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As calls for a Bondi Royal Commission grow, a Nine Newspapers cartoon is condemned for mocking public concern and reviving antisemitic tropes instead of confronting failures behind the massacre.

Calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack have reached crescendo levels.

The calls are now so loud, and coming from so many sectors of Australian society, that it beggars belief the PM would continue to ignore them.

Jewish groups, church leaders, sports stars, business leaders, defence and intelligence experts, current and former Labor MPs, former Governors General … the list goes on.

All calling on the PM to announce a public inquiry into how we, this country, reached a point where Jews could be hunted like game on Bondi beach, and shot dead in cold blood.

That seems like the sort of thing a serious country might want to investigate.

Fake News

But if you believe the cartoon in the Nine Newspapers yesterday, all of these people – from Dawn Fraser to former Governor General David Hurley – are dupes.

According to Nine Newspapers, none of the people calling for a Royal Commission are thinking for themselves.

No. No. They’re all finger puppets.

Have a look at the cartoon published in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age by cartoonist Cathy Wilcox.

The cartoon depicts an ‘apparent’ grassroots movement of Australians calling for a Royal Commission.

And it mocks them.

She’s drawn what she calls Labor Has-Beens for a Royal Commission. And Dogs for a Royal Commission.

Underneath them — holding them all up — she’s drawn conservative politicians like David Littleproud, Sussan Ley, Jacinta Price and John Howard.

The implication is clear. According to the cartoon, calls for a Royal Commission into the murder of 15 Australians on 14 December are not genuine.

Calls for a Royal Commission are just a cynical stunt, cooked up by the dastardly Right, with everyday Australians too dim to notice they’re being used.

Anti-Semitic Trope

Now, if that was all there was to this cartoon… it would be bad enough.

But let your eyes drift to the bottom left corner of the cartoon, where Cathy Wilcox has thoughtfully included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu beating a drum.

Yep… all those Australians calling for a Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack — well, they’re just marching to the beat of Benjamin Netanyahu.

So let’s decode the message, because it isn’t exactly hidden.

Apparently, Israel’s Prime Minister exercises some kind of magical power over Australian public discourse.

That ‘grassroots movement’ calling for a Royal Commission is — according to the lead cartoon in The Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers — not a grassroots movement at all.

It’s a bunch of simpletons being manipulated and controlled by… the Jews.

According to the cartoon, the call for a Royal Commission is not legitimate. It’s not genuine. It’s not real. And it shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Calls for a Royal Commission into the murder of Jews are just one more example of Zionist mind control.

And just like that, we’ve time-travelled straight back to the medieval village square, where someone is about to start shouting about poisoned wells and secret cabals.

Victim-Blaming

I cannot believe Nine Newspapers thought it was appropriate to publish this cartoon.

The fact that a major Australian media outlet believes it is perfectly acceptable to publish age-old antisemitic tropes — about nefarious Jews secretly wielding power for their own ends — is not only grotesque, just another reason — as if we needed one — as to why a Royal Commission is so necessary.

Imagine mocking the need for a royal commission.

It’s beyond comprehension that they thought this cartoon was appropriate.

Something is badly broken in this country.

Let’s play a little thought experiment.

If, instead of Jews killed for being Jews, it had been gays killed for being gay.

Or Aboriginals killed for being black.

Or women killed for being women.

Or Muslims, killed for being Muslim.

Do you think Nine Newspapers would publish an article mocking calls for a public inquiry and suggesting the victims were, in fact, part of the problem?

Do you think Nine Newspapers would publish a cartoon like this if it concerned the slaughter of any other community? Any community other than Jews?

At least this cartoon puts to bed the myth about Jews controlling Australia’s media.

Valid Questions

And what about the tens of thousands of Australians who have signed a petition calling for a Royal Commission? Are they all being controlled by the Jews?

The people of Australia want to understand what happened, what went wrong, and how we can ensure radical Islam is weeded out of this country.

What failed?

Who ignored the warnings?

And why has radical Islamist ideology been allowed to fester until it erupted in mass murder on one of our country’s most famous beaches?

That isn’t political. That’s civic instinct.

It’s what we do when the social contract snaps, and the government tells us all to move along because there’s nothing to see… aside from all the dead bodies lying on the Bondi foreshore.

The real obscenity in all of this is not that people are demanding answers — it’s that parts of the media would turn the massacre of Australian Jews into an opportunity to push an anti-Israel narrative and resurrect the world’s oldest conspiracy theory.

Australians don’t want a Royal Commission because they’re manipulated.

They want it because they’re sick to death of radical Islam being protected while anti-Semitism has free rein — endangering not only Jews, but all of us.

And after cartoons like today’s, can you really blame them?

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

Appeal for the Bondi Terrorist Attack Victims

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