Max Brenner Protests in Melbourne

The image here is a photo taken tonight by a friend in Melbourne - of police in anticipation of a scheduled protest by anti-Israel activists outside Max Brenner Chocolate Shop in Melbourne.

It is absolutely disgusting that police resources should have to be utilised in this way due to the bigotry of those so blinded by hatred of Israel that they have prevented members of the public from dining at Max Brenner - whose only 'crime' is that it happens to be a Jewish owned business.

This goes far beyond the legitimate right to criticise Israeli policy, singling out a Jewish business is never OK and highlights the true agenda of anti-Israel activists, who amongst their boycott calls also suggest a boycott of Westfields Shopping Centres (see my post on this here).

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me -
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.

The German anti-Nazi activist,
Pastor Martin Niemöller