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There are many factors at work in the now routine demonstrations in our big cities explicitly against Israel and implicitly in favour of Middle Eastern terror groups.

One is the leftist mindset that’s behind Black Lives Matter protests and Extinction Rebellion disruptions, as well as the anti-Israel demonstrations.

Of course, people are entitled to their opinion, but it is disturbing when that opinion is quite at odds with what Australians are supposed to believe.

For instance, the pledge that all new citizens take – and that presumably reflects the civic culture of all of us – cites “loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey”.

There’s no democracy and there’s no liberty, as it’s normally understood, in Gaza, on the West Bank or in Iran.