The NSW Opposition has slammed the Minns Labor Government for permitting an anti-Semitic pro-Hamas protest to prevent a peaceful gathering of Sydney\u2019s Jewish community at the illuminated Sydney Opera House to mourn the barbaric attacks on innocent civilians in Israel.
\u201cThe Premier, Attorney General and Minister for Police have failed in their duty to ensure the safety and protection of Sydney\u2019s Jewish community \u2013 instead telling the community \u201cto stay home,\u201d Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said. \u201cThe Premier is blaming the NSW Police, the Attorney General is unaware of the anti-Semitic protests and the Police Minister is once again missing in action\u201d.
\u201cChris Minns as Premier must take responsibility for the ineptitude of his Ministers. He must immediately explain why his Attorney General and Minister for Police did nothing, or worse knew nothing, and failed to ensure the safety of people across Sydney.\u201d
\u201cFor the Attorney General to tell people to \u2018stay home if the streets aren\u2019t safe\u2019 is an astonishing admission that the government has given up controlling law and order in Sydney.\u201d
At the time of this media release being issued, the Minister for Police has been totally silent on the decision to allow the protest to proceed and march on the Opera House.
\u201cThe Premier is pointing the finger at NSW Police, yet neither he nor his Ministers prevented or even discouraged attendance and participation at a march that saw anti-Semitic slurs chanted and the Israeli flag burned,\u201d Mr Speakman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe buck stops with the Premier. He must get his government in order and instruct his Ministers to provide a full explanation as to how last night\u2019s events were allowed to occur. If he or his Ministers failed to take action, it\u2019s another example of a government out of its depth.\u201d
\u201cThe Premier and his Ministers should apologise to the Jewish community and the people of NSW for failing them at this crucial time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NSW Opposition has slammed the Minns Labor Government for permitting an anti-Semitic pro-Hamas protest to prevent a peaceful gathering of Sydney\u2019s Jewish community at the illuminated Sydney Opera House to mourn the barbaric attacks on innocent civilians in Israel. \u201cThe Premier, Attorney General and Minister for Police have failed in their duty to ensure the … Continue reading “Minns Labor government fails Sydney\u2019s Jewish community”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23299,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298\/revisions\/23299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}