Bondi Beach, George Orwell and the Permission Structures for Your Hatred
A quick question before you bite my head off: Are you sure you are thinking for yourself?
Bondi Beach massacre: 15 Jews were gunned down by Islamists in broad daylight yesterday whilst celebrating Hanukkah (a Jewish holiday which is celebrated in a similar way to Christmas), including a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor.
Is it time yet to rethink your position of hatred towards Israel?
As I write this, my heart is filled with grief and compassion for the families involved, but still it needs to be said: are you ready to take a look at the real reasons for why incidents like this are happening - and escalating - around the world?
Let’s take a look - and by the end of this post I’ll also share with you a precise 5-point solution plan to resolve the whole Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Sydney: A Great Cultural Melting Pot?
My uncle in Sydney used to say 20 years ago that Sydney was one of the world’s greatest and most successful cultural melting pots. But that was then, and this is now. So, what went wrong?
Like everyone, I’m in utter shock - having walked along that sea front myself, and knowing that this is an iconic central cultural outdoor spot for families in one of the supposedly most “free” and “civilised” countries in the world. Is that what the “Free World” has come to?
The incident took place in Archer Park, a grassy area overlooking Bondi Beach which has a children’s playground and is a well-known spot for barbecues and picnics.
The Same Sydney Where That Massive March Took Place
Let’s think about what the permission structures for violence are, which are being promoted in the mainstream.
In this case, only barely 3 months ago, on 3rd August 2025, up to 300,000 people (according to the organisers) marched in Sydney in misdirected anti-Semitic rage against Israel. You’ll remember it, I’m sure.
You may protest that these things are not connected, but they are.
As George Orwell famously showed, in the Two Minutes Hate in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the principal purposes of the mainstream media is clear: It is to inform you what the acceptable and encouraged targets for your suppressed anger are; in other words, the permission structures for anger and violence.
Currently, as it was also in 1930s Germany and Austria, an acceptable and heavily promoted Orwellian target for popular anger, we are regularly being conditioned to think, is Israel and, by extension, Jews.
Was It An Antisemitic March?
Of course, mainstream sources will constantly but falsely claim that it’s all just about Israel and not Jews, but at the end of the day, as the location of yesterday’s massacre in the same city as the massive anti-Israeli march 3 months ago shows plainly, that’s a clever example of “doublespeak” - to quote Orwell.
Okay, so. . . you don’t need me to say this, because you already know it: Just because it has become trendy to express anger about a particular national group, does not make it right, or “justified” - or constructive in any way; yet sometimes it seems like nobody has even reflected on the events of World War II, even in spite of their familiarity to everyone.
Here in England, almost everyone I know is WRONGLY inflamed with anger towards Israel, Israelis and Jews. And yes, the three get conflated, no matter who tries to pretend that they don’t.
Intentionality Is Real - And Words Do Break Bones!
There is a direct line that links:
The hateful intentions you hold in your mind (see Professor William A Tiller’s research on intentionality using random event generator machines);
The expressions and sharing of that anger through constant social media posts hating on Israel and sharing “Free Palestine” memes and hanging Palestinian flags on public buildings;
300,000 people marching on Sydney Harbour Bridge against Israel;
Barely 3 months later, this massacre of Jews at a family picnic spot just down the road in the same city.
If I did not speak out as I am doing here, then it would be like I lacked the moral courage of Charlie Chaplin when (as you will have seen if you ever watched the biopic about him, “Chaplin”) he was portrayed at a 1930s party in Hollywood speaking out bravely against a studio executive making antisemitic remarks to a group of people.
So When is Hatred Justified?
Jesus Christ already said it over 2000 years ago, and so did the Buddha and Krishna before that - and every authentic sage ever since: There is NO justification for holding hatred in your heart, or whipping it up in your life, or in others.
All hatred is also, as Krishna taught, simply the product of illusion.
A massacre like this is a stark signal that it is time for humanity, collectively, to rise up out of the state of illusion within the human heart that generates hatred.
I know that to some my words here may seem strange, but. . . think about it, and tell me where these words are wrong.
As long as 300,000 are ready to march in such a cause, this situation could get worse, and then, as it escalates, one day you might awaken as though from a dream and wonder why YOU supported and marched for such a cause, having failed to pause a moment in order to reflect on the nature of the cause you are supporting.
And will you really be able to say (like many Nazi collaborators had to say in the post-war years) that you were justified in going along with the zeitgeist of the times just because of peer pressure - or, worse, because you drank the herd juice and really believed it all without even properly thinking it through?
What happened to being your own man or woman, and thinking for yourself?
And what happened to critical thinking, discussion and debate?
How To Think For Yourself
Thinking for yourself isn’t so difficult as it sounds - and you will sleep easier at night.
I’ll share a quick, heart-warming anecdote to show how easy it really is. . .
I remember a teacher at school who told us one day in class that he had just been at a meeting at which all of the staff of the school were present and had to vote on something important (he never did tell us what it was!), and he had found himself with the only hand in the air as he looked round - but he told us that he proudly kept his hand in the air nevertheless.
As he told us this, we could all see that he was feeling jubilant.
Why? Because, as Truth-Loving Fred always likes to say, standing up for the truth makes us stronger, even if it means going against the crowd.
That teacher set a good example for us. Indeed, this is one of the key aspects of what “education” should surely be about: helping people to think for themselves - and not allow themselves to get caught up unthinkingly in trends like the current anti-Israeli fervour doing the rounds.
So What is Anti-Zionism, Really?
Oh but wait, I can imagine some people saying to me in reply, the march in Sydney wasn’t against Jews - or Israel! It was only against Zionism.
Zionists, I am regularly told, are the cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and need to be stopped - and furthermore kicked out of the Middle East.
Ahem.
Actually, the word “Zion” just means “Jerusalem” and, customarily, “Israel”.
“Zionism” is just a reference to the state of Israel existing as a country, since its modern re-founding in 1948.
To eradicate Zionism, as the Palestinian movement seeks to do, means to eradicate the country of Israel.
By comparison, if we said there was such a thing as “Americanism”, and if we then constructed a fake narrative to blame it for something, and then called for the eradication of “Americanists”, this would mean the eradication of the USA as a country - and the forced eviction or killing of all Americans living in the USA. We could also claim, in this ridiculous fake narrative, that the reason for it is that the Americans are occupying Native American or Mexican land (take your pick), and that is why they must leave and have no country any more.
And if we did all of that and then, in the same breath, said “This is not Anti-American”, then clearly that would be an incorrect (= untrue!) statement.
And if, in the name of supporting this narrative, 300,000 people marched in Sydney and then just 3 months later 15 Americans were gunned down in the same city by “anti-Americanists”, would YOU think these things are all connected or unconnected?
Think about it. It’s pretty obvious, really.
So if you march in support of a group (the Palestinian cause) which is calling for the violent eradication of the whole of a nation (Israel) both in writing (the Palestinian National Charter) and in its popular slogans and demands, how can you claim that is not against that nation and ethnic group? That sounds again like doublespeak to me (thank you, George Orwell; you have helped us all make better sense of the modern world!)
As Lucy Tabrizi has eloquently summarised: “Anti-Zionism is a hate movement that weaponises Palestinian suffering to fuel Jew-hatred.”
The evidence for this is everywhere to be seen:
Most strangely of all, there are no 300,000 people marching in Sydney - at any time - against China’s occupation of Tibet, or against any other national group’s violent behaviour against any other ethnic group (take your pick).
So clearly it is not the behaviour of any national group that is the concern; it is specifically only ONE national group to which the permission structures of violence and hatred are continuously flowing.
A globalised déjà vu of the 1930s, anyone? Anyone??
But Then How Can We Help the Palestinians?
At the end of this post I will share a precise 5-step solution to help the Palestinians (i.e., the people who used to be called Palestinian Arabs).
. . . AND to help the Israeli Jews too (i.e., the people who used to be called Palestinian Jews) - not that you asked about their welfare.
But there is a preliminary step required before that.
To help the Palestinians (if that is REALLY your aim?), the first step is (unlike almost everyone I see in Britain and Ireland right now) to take a step back and stop supporting the global Palestinian Cause which is not serving the best interests of the Palestinian people - because it is a narrative of hatred and untruths which is perpetuating conflict and violence rather than resolving anything. And like many violent information fields all through history, it’s a self-perpetuating cycle of violence.
So why march and wave flags in support of it? That’s the very first thing to look at.
If you pause to reflect on it, you know it and I know it and we all know it: Hatred is not the way to resolve any conflict - and nor is holding a country (Israel) hostage to terrorist demands to hand over the whole of their own state to a neighbouring people (which is exactly what the Palestinian National Charter is asking for) - and nor is marching on Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of those demands.
What About the Tibetans or the Kurds?
By comparison, are Tibetans, in demanding a state, holding China hostage to terrorist demands legitimised by up to 300,000 marchers in Sydney? No.
And by the way, is the Dalai Lama himself urging them to do so? No. Is the Dalai Lama even urging his Tibetan people to fight for an independent state? No. I’m writing a forthcoming article about why - and what implications the Tibetan question may have for Palestinians.
And yet I don’t see any Sydney marches for Tibetans.
And in asking that, I’m not equating these causes - or any other causes mentioned below - because each is entirely unique. The only thing that unites all the causes I’m mentioning here and below is that they are all ethnic groups which have a separatist movement.
What about the Kurds, then? Are the Kurds holding Turkey hostage to terrorist demands legitimised by 300,000 people marching on the streets of Sydney? And then are some Kurdish extremists gunning down Turks at a picnic site in Sydney, and then using doublespeak to declare “we’re not anti-Turkish”?
Or are such things happening in Sydney in the name of the Catalans or the Basques in Spain?
Or are such things happening in Sydney in the name of the Tamils of Sri Lanka?
Or are such things happening in Sydney in the name of the Uighurs of China?
Or are such things happening in Sydney in the name of the Igbo people of Nigeria?
And the list goes on. . . You get my point. (And I am of course saying that NO violence is justified or should take place in Sydney or elsewhere about any of these causes!)
So why aren’t those marches happening?
It’s not because those other ethnic groups are suffering less. Some are suffering more. Some are even in concentration camps.
It’s because the media has conditioned you with permission structures for violence and hatred which flow only towards the targets it tells you (as per George Orwell) that you should focus on, and that means:
Towards Israel YES
But towards all other countries, ethnic groups and regions NO
The Solution
The solution, which is surprisingly simple, is five-fold:
Take back your anger from those permission structures, and re-own it in your own heart, where it came from.
Apply the same standards to all peoples and nations - don’t apply a special set of standards to Israel and Jews which does not apply to anyone else.
Support those who, like me, are engaging in in-depth compassionate dialogue to understand and resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without hatred and with a drive for peaceful, humanitarian resolution for all parties involved.
Look at separatist movements globally - with other examples such as the Tibetans - and see what great spiritual leaders like the Dalai Lama are saying about those other cases and why.
Refer to your chosen spiritual tradition (Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, other) to find a spiritual resolution to the hatred in your heart - namely, through practices such as love, devotion and the transcending of illusions.
You’ll notice that none of these 5 steps involves any slogans, clichés, memes, street marches or flag-waving.
You’ll also notice that this is NOT a call to bury your passion; passion is wonderful if directed creatively, and if passion flows towards constructive purpose like that embodied by the 5 steps above, then anger and hatred evaporate in favour of devotional, humanitarian, loving passion.
I am not asking you to suppress your anger; I am asking you to transmute it into a higher humanitarian vision in which it becomes com-passion; that is, together-passion, or in other words passion for all of humanity.
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[Endnote: Calibration of this post = 610. For those aware of the work of Dr David Hawkins, I nowadays calibrate my articles to check what overall context of truth (“level of consciousness”) the current of ideas within them matches. It helps me to do my best to anchor my main themes in the broadest and most humanitarian truth context I can. And, far from being an exercise in self-congratulation, it’s a useful exercise in self-critique, as it also helps me to identify and correct any lower-calibrating content or ideas that may mistakenly creep in. So, I use it also as a personal compass. Soon I will be writing more about what this means and why it is useful!]