The radicalisation of the pond continues with a serve of Dame Groan and the bromancer ...

 

So one minute the lizard Oz was reporting that the radicalised suicidal and homicidal co-pilot was part of a premeditated operation planned by the likes of Iran (here);  and the next minute that he'd been radicalised by living in Australia.

That the pond could understand. The pond has been dangerously radicalised by being exposed to a daily diet of lizard Oz "news" and opinions.

Who could add to the pond's radicalisation this day?

A horde of contenders rushed into view, but these days the pond has become selective in its diet.

While the pond appreciated Toby's assault on the perfidious French - how diabolical and insulting to call them Greeks - it lacked the necessary radicalising fizz...

Has France become the new Greece of Europe?
History shows that financial crises can spread remarkably quickly once confidence begins to deteriorate.
By Toby Johnston

... so the pond personally supervised its transfer to the intermittent archive so that its feeble attempt at radicalisation was to hand for all.

Ditto Damon (Damon?) Johnson's effort, which could only radicalise forlorn southern sparrows (you know who you are...

Why Labor is backing One Nation’s Pickering to join debate
Warren Pickering wants in. Ben Carroll wants him in. Why Jess Wilson is not so sure.
By Damon Johnston
Melbourne Bureau Chief

As for the "lead" news story, the only thing of note was the new snap of a completely bewildered Jimbo ...

EXCLUSIVE
Trusts trap: Tax office, Labor in twin hits as businesses brace
Trusts trap: ATO and Labor in twin hits as businesses forced to pay heavily
Small businesses and families face up to $13.3bn in restructuring and advice costs as the ATO cracks down on decades-old trust paperwork errors ahead of Labor’s looming reforms.
By Sarah Ison and Thomas Henry

The pond would love to be the fly on a wall in the editorial meetings where hit jobs are handed out ...with stout-hearted old diggers joining with Pauline to set up a wail ...

EXCLUSIVE
Hanson issues enterprising put-down of Chalmers
The One Nation leader attacked the Treasurer’s lack of private sector experience and told business chiefs her party is their champion.
By Geoff Chambers

"Enterprising"? "Issues"? What judicious, wise use of words ...

COMMENTARY by DENNIS SHANAHAN
Five months in and Dr Jim’s budget blunder still causing pain
No budget still at the centre of negative news and politics nearly six months after it was brought down can be called a political success.

On the upside, all this spared the pond from more Josh v. Beefy Boofhead, or freedumb boy ...

Besides, if the pond wants this sort of stuff, it won't turn to a recycling of the thoughts of a fake ranga. It'll reach for the OP Bundy rum ...

A strong Hayekian start, with subtle flavours of Robin Hood on the back palate.

And then there's the coffee. Let the overlords drink coffee!

The pond did its best to care, but it sounded just like another jihad ... one day death taxes, the next trusts, then the price of coffee (remember the good old days when you made your own and developed skills at making heart and fern shapes?) ...

It must be time for an AV distraction ...

By golly the reptiles seem to have an inexhaustible supply of snaps of Jimbo looking quizzical or bewildered ... and so to the final gobbet ...

The pond acknowledges it gave the old groaner short shrift by dishing her out in screen caps, but why not swallow down your daily dose of "we'll all be rooned" in four short gulps?

On with even more dangerous radicalisation, this time at the hand, or keyboard, of the bromancer.

He always knows the best way to get  a firing squad of stupidity into top shape...

The header: By Greg Sheridan Foreign Editor
The Greens are the worst antisemites

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The caption of a snap of a possible Satanist: Green Party leader Zack Polanski delivers his speech during day one of the Green Party annual conference. Picture: Getty Images

The yearning for the Big G's attention: Make us preferred on Google

Not the bromancer, not another edition of the Australian Daily Zionist News ...

Correspondents sent into terminal despair at the thought know the pond's drill.

First a little balance by reverting to a Haaretz story which takes up the themes explored in that notorious documentary NAZA. 

There's an interview with the co-director on YouTube.

A new documentary, “NAZA,” provides a searing look into the inner-workings of the Israeli military’s operation in the Gaza Strip. Its namesake is derived from a Hebrew military term for “collateral damage.” Academy Award-winning director and investigative journalist Yuval Abraham joined Jacob Soboroff to discuss the film's implications, and the discoveries he made while making it. 

The Haaretz story provided details of war crimes in abundance:

'Even the Lowest-Ranking Target Justified Civilian Casualties': Israeli Intelligence Soldiers Detail Gaza Policy Shift (*intermittent archive)

This is how ethnic cleansing goes down ...

...According to A., who was also involved in the mission, those in the strike cell knew that a particularly large number of civilians could be harmed. Military Intelligence's calculations of potential collateral damage put the figure at roughly 250 to 300 people, so the decision was referred directly to the chief of staff for approval. The IDF, by contrast, says its collateral damage estimate was around 100 people. The soldiers say far more were ultimately killed.
After the strike, A. says, a damage assessment was conducted to establish what had happened on the ground.
"Among other things, we relied on figures coming from Hamas, which we considered relatively plausible, even if they weren't 100 percent accurate," he says. "As time went on, we realized the death toll was around 250. I remember being stunned that we were bringing down several densely populated buildings, killing and injuring hundreds of people, to kill a battalion commander who, just a few weeks earlier, hadn't even been someone we were supposed to gather intelligence on."

There's a lot more in that story, but it's time for the bromancer to keep radicalising the pond ...

The Greens political movement, in Australia and internationally, has emerged as an important generator of antisemitic prejudice, indeed hatred. The election of David Shoebridge as leader of the Greens doesn’t moderate this ugly trend, but consolidates it.
The Greens, in Australia and internationally, partly emerge from, and embody, the dominance of the far-left worldview that now dominates Western universities, especially in the humanities. This is a central element to the crisis that afflicts Australia and most Western societies. Universities have become, in part, agents of hatred, prejudice, ideological extremism and delusional paranoia in public policy.
It goes without saying that many good things happen at Australian universities. But there’s also a profoundly ideological crisis on our campuses. The royal commission into antisemitism, as well as mostly ignoring Islamist antisemitism, has barely touched university antisemitism, especially humanities’ classrooms. The real reason authorities baulk at confronting ugly antisemitic demonstrations is that these demonstrations give expression to the universities’ broader intellectual environment. To change them fundamentally would require a cultural revolution at universities. None of our leaders are up for this.
It should be noted this is a bipartisan failure. The Coalition was in office for a decade and no useful reform of universities, schools or other cultural organisations more widely took place. This is not a question of freedom of speech. It’s a question of vast taxpayer funding being used to undermine and destroy the basic tenets of civic and human decency.

Human decency? Per Haaretz:

The soldiers' accounts describe an entirely different approach to warfare since October 7, 2023, in which even the lowest-ranking target justified civilian casualties. Their testimony suggests that the high casualty figures the army calls collateral damage were not isolated mishaps or individual identification errors, but the result of a strike policy stretched to its limits. Haaretz has published similar accounts throughout the three years of war. These policies, combined with an effort to compensate for the intelligence failure of October 7, led the military to turn a blind eye to a civilian toll unlike anything it had ever seen.
'We were striking small fry'
One change the soldiers describe after October 7 was the opening of the intelligence apparatus to untrained personnel.
"People arrived at Military Intelligence who weren't from the unit, reservists who'd never even served in intelligence, brought in from all sorts of places," says A. "They sat in the Targeting Directorate looking for the most insignificant targets, the small fry, so they could kill them. Anyone displaying Hamas symbols on Facebook or identifying themselves as Hamas was marked as a target. Some were Hamas members, some were fighters too, but they really were small fry."
D., who served in strike cells – rear command teams that coordinate drone and other aerial strikes and act as the "eyes" of troops on the ground – reinforces that account as he describes how the criteria and methods changed.
"We were always told that things would look different in a war," he says. "But this was something else entirely. Suddenly, the IDF was striking even the lowest of the low indiscriminately, and everyone had forgotten about conserving ammunition. We were striking Hamas drivers. That's how far it went."

Apparently here's a local variant of alleged Satanism, given the honour for daring to point out the indecent: David Shoebridge holds a press conference at Parliament House. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

On with the lesser Lesser commaning all to "make it so"...

Opposition shadow education minister Julian Leeser has introduced a bill to try to force universities to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of antisemitism, which has been officially adopted by the Albanese government, all the states and indeed even the National Student Ombudsman, but not the majority of Australian universities. 

Stop right there. This was one submission in relation to that matter (you'll need to search to find the link, it being a pdf download):

Shades of grey bro, shades of grey ... though perhaps not for you or the lesser Leeser:

Speaking, powerfully, on Monday to support his bill, Leeser said: “When it comes to antisemitism, our public university campuses have a lot to answer for.”
Addressing the universities directly, Leeser said: “In far too many cases, you have allowed Jew-hate to become normalised on your campuses. It always hides behind the fig leaf that the abuse and intimidation is not antisemitic, just anti-Zionist or anti-Israel. This is a pathetic and ridiculous excuse when the targets are overwhelmingly Australian staff and students, and we all know the word Zionist is just the politically acceptable way to say the word Jew.”
Leeser correctly identifies a key fellow traveller of this ideological sickness as the Greens party. He says: “The Greens are the party of antisemitism.” Last week this stark reality was revealed in all its ugliness in Britain. The British Greens are led by Zack Polanski, surely the most odious purveyor of hatred and extremism in mainstream Western politics. Australian Greens periodically express admiration for the British Greens.
The British Greens passed a formal resolution at their conference last week that declared Zionism is racism. They further declared that modern Israel should not exist at all, that the Jews of Israel should live as part of “a single, democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine”. The resolution praised and encouraged resistance against Israel “by all means available under international law”. Senior Greens figures promoting the resolution were clear that includes armed struggle.
A central feature of all this is to understand what Zionism is. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines Zionism as “a movement aiming at the re-establishment of the Jewish nation in Palestine”. Note the word “re-establishment”. Jews have lived in Jerusalem and surrounding areas for thousands of years. It’s insane to call Israel a colonial nation. However, whether you like Israel or not, Zionism means, as the OED says, the idea that there should be a Jewish state in the Middle East.

Stop right there.

What is Zionism and why do some critics describe it as racist?
Green party debate over the motion ‘Zionism is racism’ comes amid renewed arguments over the meaning and history of a contested term

Shades of grey, bromancer, shades of grey.

Palestine wasn't some pristine terra nullius. 

There were people living there, and they'd been there for a long time...

Stay still What is Zionism? The different meanings of a contested term

...Most of these allegations concerned the alleged mistreatment of Jewish students and faculty who identify as Zionists, or merely refuse to denounce Zionism. That has led some administrations, such as Haverford’s, to explicitly affirm that it is forbidden to harass or otherwise discriminate against students who support Zionism – since such behavior has become increasingly common on some campuses in recent years.
As a scholar of Israel studies who teaches about Zionism, what strikes me when I read such statements is how narrowly they define it, reducing Zionism to a single belief in “the right of the Jewish people to self-determination and statehood in the land of Israel.”
This ignores the fact that there are multiple “Zionisms,” rather than a singular “Zionism,” and that the term has more than just one meaning. It is, at best, oversimplified to describe Zionism only as the belief in the right of Jews to have a Jewish state.

Shades of grey, bromancer, shades of grey ...

Oaky, the pond's interrupted more than enough. Cue a snap of the lesser Leeser: Federal Liberal MP Julian Leeser. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

And cue the bromancer ...

Modern Israel has been an independent state since 1948, just under 80 years. Every government, opposition and political party in the West that recognises Israel, such as the Albanese government, is definitionally Zionist. To call Zionism racism is to declare Israel, uniquely among all nations, wickedly illegitimate. Further, what the British Greens have done is stigmatise all British Jews who have any sympathy for Israel at all, who even utter the Jewish prayer “next year in Jerusalem”, as racists.
In doing this, the British Greens are intensely racist themselves, and justify racist persecution of Jews. Jews who attend “Zionist synagogues” are thus racist. Therefore, in this grotesque inversion of morality, to oppose racism the left opposes Jews. This is ugly antisemitism. The Nazis would approve.
Polanski is in his way so cowardly that he didn’t attend the vote on this resolution at his own conference. Under severe media scrutiny, he later said he would have voted against the resolution although he agreed with its substance. Happily, Polanski lost the by-election for former Labour leader Keir Starmer’s seat. Labour under Andy Burnham held on.
But the Greens, having passed this infamous, antisemitic, racist resolution, won a shocking 33 per cent of the vote. The British Greens are polling 11 per cent nationally. Other antisemitic parties poll well over 4 per cent. That means we now live in the unimaginable historic moment of so mainstreaming antisemitism that more than one in seven British voters now support openly antisemitic parties.

Did the bromancer have to drag climate science into it? 

He did, he did ...Greta Thunberg ...only to mourn the way that those bloody alarmists could hold more than one thought in the old noggin at a time ...

Hang on, hang on, say that again ...

Shoebridge is less verbally extreme than Mehreen Faruqi, whom he defeated for the leadership. But he leads a completely extreme party. While his language is marginally more civil – though he’s happy to call Coalition politicians “scumbags” – the substance of his leadership is extreme.

In mango Mussolini days, you're going to get agitated about a term. a word, a concept, that's within your lexicon?

The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan discusses the “terrible breakdown in civility” which has taken place in American politics. 
“Both sides of American politics, driven partly by social media, are very dangerously demonising each other,” Mr Sheridan told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. 
“When the worst of them generally are that, they are idiots; they are not really murderers and wannabe dictators and scumbags and all the rest of it.” (Less than 1,400 views for the bromancer and the Bolter? Happy days).

So the pond can call you an idiot and a barking mad Zionist, and that would pass the bromancer smell test?

On to the last flourish of extremist bromancer ...

He has himself shared and lauded maps that show Israel erased in one big Palestine sign, he’s identified with the “Free Palestine, from the river to the sea” slogan, he’s accused Israel of attempting to wipe the Palestinian people out, he’s described the accidental and tragic death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom as Israeli “murder”, he routinely describes Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide and says the Albanese government is “deeply complicit” in this genocide.
Shoebridge leads a far-left, extremist party, the Greens, as destructive an element of the sickness at the heart of our culture as anything we’ve seen.
Greg Sheridan is The Australian’s foreign editor.

Speaking of the sickness at the heart of our culture, a sample of the lizard Oz hive mind at work ...

On the upside, the pond was spared the bromancer frantically scribbling that mad king Donald had done some good things, generally unspecified ...

And here's an interesting addendum. 

This is the sort of censorship routinely featured on a daily basis by the Australian Daily Zionist News ...

Susan Abulhawa wins fight to restore censored Oxford Union speech on Israel apartheid

The deletions included her references to booby-trapped toys in southern Lebanon and allegations of sexual torture against Palestinian detainees, including her account of the death of Gaza surgeon Dr Adnan Al-Bursh. Other cuts removed criticism of Zionist claims to supremacy and of conduct during the Gaza genocide.

Here's the Oxford Union bit about the settlement ...

susan abulhawa and the Oxford Union are pleased to confirm they have resolved the dispute that arose between them regarding the publication of an edited video of her speech in the 28 November 2024 debate "This house believes Israel is an apartheid state engaged in genocide"

And here's the restored argument ...