{"id":26568,"date":"2011-08-30T02:13:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=26568"},"modified":"2011-08-30T02:13:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:13:10","slug":"brenner-bds-adl-apdm-app-a-storm-in-a-chocolate-mug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=26568","title":{"rendered":"Brenner, BDS, ADL, APDM, APP… A storm in a chocolate mug?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month in Melbourne, a protest rally<\/a> outside of a local Max Brenner outlet resulted in 19 arrests (further arrests<\/a> took place weeks later). The protest was preceded in June by another in Sydney at which two protesters were arrested. In Brisbane on the weekend, another rally outside a Max Brenner outlet was organised. On this occasion, the rally was confronted with a counter-rally, composed of a number of Zionists (among them Logan City councillor Hajnal Black, who responds to critics here<\/a>), Tory students and, notably, members of a local radical right-wing group known as the ‘Australian Patriots Defence Movement’ (see : Chocolate war gets messy<\/a>, Ellen Lutton, Brisbane Times<\/em>, August 28, 2011). The APDM had previously organised a rally on August 6<\/a> calling on Australian governments to ‘ban the burqa’. <\/p>\n

Further rallies against Max Brenner in Melbourne and Sydney are being planned for Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10 (respectively). A counter-protest is being organised in Sydney by the Australian Protectionist Party<\/a> and the Australian Defence League<\/a>. The APP hope to scare away the “sandal wearing, mobile compost heap, muesli chewing, no dedorant [sic] mob of leftards” who will be outside the chocolate shop, while the ADL will be defending Brenner from Muslim occupation… or something.<\/p>\n

The NSW leader of the APP, Darrin Hodges, is an ex-Stormfront<\/a> forum member who once opined that “[Hitler] laid a foundation that we should build on” but who now identifies The Muslim<\/em> rather than The Jew<\/em> as being Public Enemy #1. Martin Brennan, the former leader of the ADL, was last month deported back to England as an illegal immigrant<\/a> but looks forward to joining the EDL as they attempt to march through Tower Hamlets on September 3 (slight problem being police have banned<\/a> the march). One of Brennan’s closest supporters was another foreigner named Roberta Moore, former<\/a> leader of the EDL’s ‘Jewish Division’: on the one hand, Moore was unhappy with the number of ‘Nazis’ belonging to the group; on the other hand, the EDL was unhappy with Moore’s cultivating links with the ‘Jewish Task Force’.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the coming together of Zionists and the far right — whether in defence of Israeli businesses or as part of a broader political campaign — appears to be evolving here in a similar manner to that in which it’s unfolded on other islands. An account of this re-alignment on the part of the European far right is examined in ‘From Meta-Politics To Mass Murder \u2013 A New Right-Wing Extremism’<\/a> (anarkisterna.com, August 25, 2011) while in Australia an ‘Open Letter to Friends and Comrades on the Struggle against Racism amongst the Class’<\/a> addresses similar issues in a local context.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Anti-Israel bullies’ hard-centre bites in chocolate shop campaign<\/a>, Cameron Stewart, The Australian<\/em>, August 20, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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