Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\nA day earlier, pro-Palestine demonstrators had attempted to test the laws with a John Farnham flashmob.<\/p>\n
Several hundred people refused to sit in silence or live with fear as they donned blond wigs and 80s regalia to belt out the 1988 classic Two Strong Hearts on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
The song contains the lyrics \u201creaching out forever like a river to the sea\u201d, but no one was arrested for singing along.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoliticians and police have been bullying artists and activists for simply displaying the lyrics of this classic Australian song, and we let them know tonight that we won\u2019t stand for it,\u201d said Deb Cleland, who choreographed the dance.<\/p>\n
Conservative Jewish groups have said the phrases are antisemitic, but others have argued such criticism conflates criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews.<\/p>\n
\u201cGlobalise the intifada\u201d has historically been used as a call to increase pressure on Israel to prioritise human rights, with the Arabic word intifada referring to uprisings in Palestine in 1987 and the 2000s.<\/p>\n
It has become more popular as Israel\u2019s military ramped up its bombing and starvation of the Palestinian population.<\/p>\n
The Queensland government banned both phrases in February, despite concerns from civil liberties experts.<\/p>\n
Liam Parry was arrested for reciting the \u201criver to the sea\u201d chant in March, while 18-year-old Bonnie Carter was charged after wearing a shirt with the phrase printed on the front.<\/p>\n
Following the Bondi beach shooting in mid-December, where two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukah event and killed 15 people, NSW has also said it would ban \u201cglobalise the intifada\u201d.<\/p>\n
Though the state has received similar backlash, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, on Thursday confirmed his government was still pursuing the legislation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can see how it operates in Queensland, but in many respects I think that hateful phrase has been exposed as exactly what it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestine protesters have been arrested for chanting \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d, a day after a John…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-615070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}