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I kind of wonder what’s going to happen now with the rhetoric towards the hero who stopped this, now known to be Ahmed al-Ahmed.
4 upvotes, 4 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "I kind of wonder what’s going to happen now with the rhetoric towards the hero who stopped this, now known to be Ahmed al-Ahmed."
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Interesting you’re trying to invoke anti-Palestinian sentiments when the hero who disarmed one of the two shooters with his bare hands had Lebanese, Syrian, and PALESTINIAN ancestry. He stopped a shooter. What have YOU done?
407 upvotes, 58 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Interesting you’re trying to invoke anti-Palestinian sentiments when the hero who disarmed one of the two shooters with his bare hands had Lebanese, Syrian, and PALESTINIAN ancestry. He stopped a shooter. What have YOU done?"
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Because when the video initially came out showing someone stopping the gunman, it was assumed the hero was a Jewish bystander, and Israeli officials issued statements of praise as such, and assigned blame for the shooting on the Australian government allowing pro-Palestinian activism.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

But now it turns out the heroic man who stopped the shooting was a Muslim fruit stand owner. Now it doesn’t look like religiously or politically motivated antisemitism is unrelated to this, as it appears one of the shooters was Pakistani (though there’s no explicit indications to his motivations yet).

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

So I don’t doubt that there was some level of religious or anti-Zionist motivation here for the attack (though there’s no direct evidence to that yet). But Ahmed’s heroic actions complicate the narrative that people want to push about Muslims. And perhaps people like the Israeli government will praise him less when he can’t be used for a political narrative.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Most statements by Israeli officials referred to the Australian government not combatting rising antisemitism more broadly, but some attempted to connect it much more directly to Palestine. For example the statement by Security Minister Ben-Ggvir: "the blood of the murdered is on the hands of the Australian government, which announced recognition of a 'Palestinian' state and gave legitimacy to terrorism against Jews."

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