Pro-Palestine activists have been captured hurling vile slurs at police and chanting anti-Semitic slurs at a rally in Melbourne‘s CBD.
Hundreds of protesters weaved their way through the city on Sunday afternoon, unfurling Palestine flags and shouting hate-filled, racially-charged epithets.
In one video uploaded on the Islamic Council of Victoria’s Facebook page, scores of protesters can heard chanting ‘all zionists are terrorists’ while one is seen marching with a sign that declares ‘Zionist kid killers be gone’.
Protesters where also seen hurling disgusting insults at police while clashing with officers during fiery exchanges throughout the day.
‘You f***ing racists c***s,’ one activist can be heard yelling at police in a clip uploaded to X by Rebel News Australia reporter Avi Yemini.
‘You f***ing racist pig, you need a f***ing Porsche through you on the f***ing Eastern Road, you f***ing pig.’
The comment is a reference to the devastating incident in which truck driver Mohinder Singh mowed down four police officers on the city’s Eastern Freeway on April 22, 2020.
A court found Singh had been high on drugs when he smashed his 19-tonner semi into the officers, who had pulled over Porsche driver Richard Pusey for speeding at the time.
Pro-Palestine protests have hurled disgusting slurs at police while clashing with officers during a rally in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday afternoon
Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King and constables Josh Prestney and Glen Humphris all died at the scene.
Singh was later sentenced to at least 18 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of culpable driving causing death, three charges of drug trafficking and one of possessing drugs in Victoria’s Supreme Court.
Pusey, who now identifies as a woman, sparked outrage across the country after sharing vision he had film of the officers dying and sentence to 10 months in jail. after being found guilty of using a carriage service to cause offence.
It is the latest in a series of ugly protests over the Gaza-Israel War that that have ignited division in the streets the Victorian capital.
On January 12, grassroots group Lions of Zion hosted a demonstration in Melbourne CBD against a wave of anti-Semitic attacks across major cities, including a synagogue in Sydney which was vandalised with a large red Swastika and words ‘Hitler on top’.
At the same time, a procession of pro-Palestine demonstrators were parading through the CBD from the State Library of Victoria.
Footage showed the moment the two groups clashed with the pro-Palestine group heard yelling, ‘Go back to Germany‘.
Victoria Police officers lined the streets of the CBD as that pro-Palestine rally marched through and managed to keep them separated from Israel supporters.
The latest incidents comes after pro-Palestine demonstrators clashed with anti-Semitism protesters in the Victorian capital on January 12
Several commenters questioned why those yelling ‘go back to Germany’ weren’t charged by police.
‘Why are they not arrested for disorderly conduct, inciting violence,’ one wrote.
‘S**t’s getting a bit too real now. I’m done with this,’ another said.
Large gatherings in support of either Palestine or Israel have become common in large cities since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, triggered by Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.
However, Australia Jewish Association Chief Executive Officer Robert Gregory claimed increased violence against Jewish communities has limited their ability to participate in demonstrations.
‘The streets of Melbourne CBD have been abandoned to a hate mob of anti-Israel activists for well over a year,’ he told Daily Mail Australia in the wake of the January rally.
‘Many Jewish people no longer feel comfortable venturing into the CBD while these rallies take place.
‘The ugly verbal abuse directed at the Jewish people should be condemned by all.
‘Racist taunts of “go back to Germany” are intended to remind Jewish people of the Holocaust carried out by Germany and to intimidate the Jewish community.
Victoria Police have repeatedly urged anyone with information on those responsible for racist attacks to come forward, saying that sort of conduct would not be tolerated.
