Clive Bibby: A smoking gun or something more sinister.

Much has been made of the proxy war being operated by the terrorist organisations currently sponsored by Iran. 

It is hard to believe that there are also a growing number of anti semitic protestors throughout the world being allowed to demonstrate their hatred any time that takes their fancy irrespective of whether they do so within or outside the confines of the law. 

And who would have thought that these protests (often violent and laced with damage to public property) would be taking place here in our own country with little response from the authorities to what are clear breaches of our civic codes of behaviour. 

Throughout the Free world it is becoming common place for statues and monuments that remind us of our heritage being sprayed with offensive language inciting hatred of the Jewish population while promoting the Palestinian cause. 

In both the United States and our nearest neighbour Australia, the respective governments are having difficulty defending their own support for the Palestinian rights to sovereignty at the expense of their traditional ally, Israel. 

Both administrations appear reluctant to make any move to silence the widespread antisemitic teaching that has become entrenched in the Universities. 

And it seems only a matter of time before our own higher education centres of learning are operating in similar fashion - in fact, most already are.

But the similarities throughout the free world are not just reserved for movements protesting the very existence of the Jewish State on their traditional lands - here in New Zealand, Universities have become hotbeds for radical activist academics promoting the racist division that has permeated so much of our modern society. 

In the US it is the DEI, LBGT or BLM that grab the headlines on sympathetic TV channels and in the left leaning newspapers (which is most of them). 

In Australia it is the indigenous aboriginal who has become the Patron Saint supposedly oppressed  to near extinction. But let’s not spoil a good opportunity to promote a myth (or even a blatant lie) by feeling a need to actually tell the truth. 

Especially when it appears you can say what you like (including blasphemy, defamatory ridicule and slander) as long as it isn’t expressed in a manner that offends muslims or people of colour. 
While few would deny all causes the right to be heard, the extent to which they are and have been influencing democratically elected governments is becoming farcical. It has to stop! 

So, maybe it is time to recognise these groups for what they are and the damage they are doing to the rights of others to peacefully coexist within a reasonable framework allowing existing freedoms to choose who or what we support. 

Whatever way we respond to the laws that govern us, we can’t escape the responsibility we each have for one another but in today’s world, ethnicity has become the password to accountability. 
There has to be a line that cannot be crossed without a response from those whose job it is to keep the peace. 

Unfortunately current policing is nonexistent when a few demonstrators expressing their particular venomous doctrine are allowed to operate unrestrained wherever and whenever it takes their fancy. How far are we away from pre war Germany! 

Surely we should be demanding an end to this outrageous negligence to duty.

Clive Bibby is a commentator, consultant, farmer and community leader, who lives in Tolaga Bay.