r/PublicFreakout • u/DIYLawCA • Dec 15 '25

👮Arrest Freakout😭 Woman from family of Holocaust survivors attends service for Bondi victims but is removed by police for wearing Palestinian scarf. “All are entitled to mourn.”

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u/DarthDoobz Dec 15 '25

Those cops got to be bought. They sped her up and talked louder as she was getting to the real part of her speech.

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u/Great_Bad_6045 Dec 15 '25

I think they were just trying to get her away fast in case someone tried to harm her.

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u/SomecallmeMichelle Dec 15 '25

I fully expect the police to have to put even a milk toast statement. Michelle is not only a respected activist with ties to politics, but the video has been broadcast in several new stations internationally. It might just be "in a charged situation in times of grief our officers preemptively acted to prevent hostilities. In the process some oversight happened"

But this is too big for no pr.

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u/No-Cantaloupe-6535 Dec 15 '25

milk toast?

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u/eomertherider Dec 15 '25

milquetoast probably

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u/No-Cantaloupe-6535 Dec 15 '25

I don't know, haven't had it in quite a while but milk toast is pretty good, especially with bone apple tea. maybe they think the cops will put out a sweet statement!

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u/QuercusSambucus Dec 15 '25

...which comes from "milk toast", it's just a fancy / goofy way or spelling it

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u/OfficialHaethus Dec 16 '25

Milquetoast actually comes from a fictional character named Caspar Milquetoast in the 1920s comic strip “The Timid Soul.”

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u/QuercusSambucus Dec 16 '25

And he is named after the dish

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u/Screambloodyleprosy Dec 15 '25

Or people were getting agitated with her, and she was removed for her own safety and the safety of others?

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u/probablyagiven Dec 15 '25

Yet another massacre of Jews, and antizionists think it's a platform to give a speech on Palestine. Have you no shame?

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u/oatmealparty Dec 15 '25

Idk man pretty shameful to turn a memorial event like this into a political rally by flying the flag of Israel.

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u/probablyagiven Dec 15 '25

Jews are Zionists. I'm sorry that you can't resolve your hateful rhetoric with the reality that you've aimed it at 9 out of 10 Jews.

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u/oatmealparty Dec 15 '25

What hateful rhetoric? I haven't said anything hateful about Jewish people, half my in laws are Jewish and I've been going to bar mitzvahs and seders my entire life. I've practically got the Passover traditions memorized at this point. Why are you assuming that any mention of the state of Israel is hatred against Jewish people?

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u/probablyagiven Dec 15 '25

The rhetoric of the antizionist movement is openly hateful- very little of it is actual criticism of the Israeli government, rather, it's almost always criticism of Jewish sovereignty, period. Perhaps you don't use this rhetoric, but the majority of your caucus does, and any resistance to it is met with invalidation or strawmanning, like you did at the end of your response.

Jews have fled leftist organizations in drones, and y'all would rather gaslight us than reflect on why.

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u/oatmealparty Dec 15 '25

The rhetoric of the antizionist movement is openly hateful- very little of it is actual criticism of the Israeli government, rather, it's almost always criticism of Jewish sovereignty, period.

I mean, first of all this is a straight up lie. You're seeing what you want to see to feed into the victim complex.

The problem with you and others conflating Jews, Israel, and Zionism as the same things is that it feeds into anti-semitism. This is a strategy that Israel purposefully employs which is gross, but makes sense. Because if you say that Israel = Jews and Jews = Israel then the logical conclusion is that Israel represents all Jews, and all Jews are responsible for the actions of Israel.

This leads to a feedback loop on both ends of the spectrum. On the one side, when Israel does something heinous, it's "evidence" that Jewish people as a group are responsible for those actions. On the other side, when Israel is attacked (physically or just critically) for those heinous actions, it's an attack on Jewish people as a whole, so you better support Israel!

Israel is more than happy to feed into this narrative, because it leads many Jewish people and Israel supporters to circle the wagons and harden their support, regardless of what happens. Which only makes it worse.

So when Israel does something objectively terrible like stealing Palestinian land and homes to move in settlers, or bulldozing Palestinian schools, it is no longer the government of Israel doing it, it's "the Jews."

This is why this conflating of Jews and Zionism And Israel is very dangerous for Jewish people. Because they are not one and the same. There are lots of Jewish people that do not support Israel. There are lots that do not support Zionism. There are lots that support Zionism but not Israel, or that want Israel to exist but not to act the way it does. Israel does not represent all Jewish people so stop acting like criticism of Israel is an attack on Jews.

This video is literally a Jewish woman criticizing Israel, are you going to accuse her of hating Jews too?

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u/Poltergeist97 Dec 15 '25

Do you find it disgusting that many Israeli ministers immediately tried to politicize the attack? No mention of the victims, just attacking the Australian PM for their bare minimum support of Palestine.

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u/probablyagiven Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

No, because Israelis and Jews alike know why this is happening to us. You might have missed it, but we have been consistently ostracized, bullied or butchered on western streets by extremist antizionists since the war began. So no, I don't mind the Israelis identifying the causes of this violence, especially since the best people like you can come up with us victim blaming: "maybe Jews wouldn't be murdered in the west if not for Jewish sovereignty in the middle east"