There is a group of lawyers that calls itself ‘Lawyers for Israel’ – a grouping usually associated with footy clubs.  According to The Age this morning, they induced the ABC to fire an announcer for saying something that they didn’t like. 

I think that is a dreadful thing for a group of lawyers to do. This nation, so young and immature in its white manifestation, is committed to respect for the views of different faiths and ethnic groups or tribes, and to freedom of speech. 

And those who clubbed together to get this woman fired, by acting behind her back, had the nerve to complain that she was not being impartial.

But it’s worse.  One of these malcontented activists called the Jewish lawyer for the sacked woman a ‘traitor.’  It is so very wrong to suggest that a lawyer should put their allegiance to their tribe or creed before their professional duty.  It is bloody terrifying – especially if we get the Trump defence – it was just a joke.

These people should give serious consideration to their choice of profession if they can be persuaded to debase it so casually and so grotesquely.

And do they simply have no idea of the immensity of the harm they do to the cause they purport to serve?

And the ABC should know better than to get sucked in so crassly – at the very top, we are told – by this motley of preppy, privileged, and off-colour zealots.

How many Palestinians have a direct line to Ita? 

Or are they just not as swish and cashed-up as the other side?  Are they, perhaps, just not as well-connected?  Do they not have as many friends on high?

Finally, would the ABC seek to have us believe that they would be just as ready to administer to a member of the away team what my dad used to call the bum’s rush?

Gaza - ABC – wrongful dismissal – prejudice at the ABC.