Author: Bilal Cleland

The lobby has exerted its utmost to suppress criticism of the Israeli instigated bloodbath to the extent of attempting the suppression of freedom of speech in our media on university campuses and in schools. It has penetrated the universities with its conflation of  antisemitism and criticism of Israel and has disrupted community cultural life with its censorship of Writers Conferences, most recently in Bendigo.

Whether it is Closing the Gap in Australia or suppressing criticism of genocide, those who claim some form a ethnic supremacy stand out.

The days of acceptance of colonialism, acceptance of the hierarchy of races, have departed and those who hold onto them are as reactionary as those who held onto absolute monarchy after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

The divine righters disappeared from history and the ethnic supremacists will do the same.

Photo: The stage at the 2017 AIPAC conference. One of the best sources of information about the...

We did not have to wait for the Enlightenment to understand that all lives are equal.

We have the Last Sermon of Muhammad (saw) as evidence, that ethnicity and race have no relevance but people are differentiated by piety, which is known to Allah.

We should consider whether the pattern of the American genocide, provided the blueprint for Netanyahu.

One political leader it certainly influenced was Adolf Hitler.

The Nazi German empire extending through the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia — all the way to Europe’s end at the Ural Mountains, was his dream.