The Weekend Australian newspaper was awash with pro-Israel propaganda as it lined up its faithful journalists for an anti-Palestine pile on ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack.

Fair and balanced went out the window long ago with Murdoch’s newspapers but this weekend’s effort was a clear indication of where his and his company’s moral compass points. And it’s not towards humanity or moral decency.

Abandonment of Israel, the headline shrieked as though Israel was some poor, downtrodden victim of evil intentions rather than the most powerful military in the Middle East. “Changed nation at risk of losing its values” thundered Paul Kelly who couldn’t seem to understand that some Australians don’t cop shit behaviour by a supremacist Israeli government determined to extinguish an indigenous race who have lived in the region for millennia.

Piece after piece trotted out the usual Zionist narrative of Jews being the........

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