TWO TIER AUSTRALIA: THE MOB GETS A VIGIL, THE REPORTER GETS MOVED ON

Three years.

That's how long it took for October 7 to go from the worst day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust to a date some people in Melbourne thought was a good time to hold a party for "martyrs".

Call it a vigil if you like.

The organisers did.

I call it what it looked like.

On Wednesday, 7 October 2026, the Free Palestine Coalition Naarm set up outside the State Library of Victoria on Swanston Street.

An all-day sit-in, then a 5pm commemoration "honouring Palestinian martyrs of the Zionist genocide".

Candles.

Poppies.

Prayer.

And a poster of Yahya Sinwar.

Sinwar.

The architect of October 7.

The man who planned the slaughter of 1,200 people, the rapes, the burnings, the hostages dragged into Gaza.

His face, held up in the middle of Melbourne, on the anniversary of his handiwork.

If that's mourning, I'd hate to see a celebration.

They were told

Nobody can say they didn't see this coming.

Jewish leaders begged the organisers to pick any other day of the year.

Any other day.

There are 364 of them.

The organisers refused.

Premier Ben Carroll went on the record two weeks out, on 23 September, and to his credit he said the right words.

"October 7 was the biggest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust."

"That date belongs to the victims."

He went further.

If the event went ahead, police would "take the steps necessary to protect the public".

Break the anti-vilification laws, he said, "and you will be dealt with under the law."

Tough talk.

Remember it.

We'll come back to it.

What happened on the day

Up to about 100 people turned up, according to police.

A speaker told the crowd that the Anzacs "participated in the act of genocide".

Liberal MP David Southwick called out the use of poppies, our symbol of remembrance, at an event like this.

A glass bottle reportedly landed near a mother pushing a pram.

And then our friends at Rebel News arrived.

Avi Yemini and his crew went down to do what journalists are supposed to do: show up, point a camera, ask questions.

Yemini approached activist Ihab Al Azhari.

The crowd started hurling abuse.

Yemini's security had to form a barrier between the crew and the mob.

Yet again, Rebel News was set upon for the crime of filming in public.

Yet again, it was the reporter who ended up being dealt with.

A senior officer told Yemini to "step back".

Then came the line every protester in this country should take note of, because apparently it only applies to some of us: "You're causing a breach of peace… direction to move on."

Not the crowd.

Not the bloke with the Sinwar poster.

The Jewish journalist with the camera.

It gets worse.

Rebel's footage shows an officer's hand at Yemini's neck.

Rebel's footage also captures an officer saying: "I live in Caulfield North… I'll f**king see you."

Caulfield North.

Melbourne's Jewish heartland.

Said to a Jewish reporter, on October 7, by a man in uniform.

Sit with that for a moment.

Victoria Police's version is that a 40-year-old man was asked to move away because he "appeared to agitate those in the crowd and was combative with police".

Combative.

I've watched the footage.

I've seen who was doing the agitating.

If filming a crowd that's holding up a picture of a mass murderer counts as agitating it, then the problem isn't the camera.

I don't buy it.

You shouldn't either.

As far as I can find, Victoria Police has said nothing about the hand at the neck, or the "I'll see you" line.

And the arrests?

There were none.

Not one reported.

The ice in my veins

I'll tell you why this one gets under my skin.

Two days after October 7, 2023, around a thousand people marched on the Sydney Opera House.

The sails had been lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag for the dead.

Flares went off.

The crowd was chanting.

And I heard "gas the Jews".

My blood turned to ice.

Not because I thought hatred didn't exist.

Because I had no idea it was sitting so close to the surface.

Two days.

The bodies weren't even all identified yet, and here it was, in the open, on the steps of the most famous building in the country.

None of us knew.

The whole world got a look at it that week, and none of us knew.

Months later, NSW Police said a forensic expert had decided the words were actually "where's the Jews".

Jewish leaders didn't accept that, and plenty of people who were there said they heard what I heard.

Police did confirm that "f*** the Jews" was chanted, which tells you everything about the mood, whichever version you believe.

"Where's the Jews."

"F*** the Jews."

Forgive me if I don't find the correction comforting.

That was 2023.

It's now 2026, and in Melbourne they're holding up Sinwar's face on the anniversary.

It didn't simmer down.

It settled in.

Once again, the mob rules

Here is the pattern, and once you see it you can't unsee it.

The crowd decides who's allowed in the public square.

The crowd decides which journalists can film.

The crowd surrounds a reporter, hurls abuse, and the police respond by removing the reporter.

The mob rules.

The rest of us are told to step back.

And the politicians and the legacy media?

Too scared to face them head on.

Carroll said break the law and you'll be dealt with.

Victoria now has the Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion Act 2025, with criminal offences that came in on 20 September last year and civil protections since April.

Canberra passed the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act in January, after Bondi.

New South Wales passed its own hate crimes laws in June.

More hate laws than we've ever had.

So tell me.

A poster of the man who planned October 7, raised on October 7, at an event the Premier personally warned about.

Was anyone charged?

Not that's been reported.

Was the poster even looked at under the new laws?

Not that anyone's told us.

All those laws, and the only person moved on was the man with the camera.

There's a state election in November.

Draw your own conclusions about why nobody in Spring Street wants this fight before then.

As for the legacy media, much of the coverage cast Yemini as the gate-crasher who "confronted" a protester.

The story became the reporter, not the Sinwar poster, not the Anzac slur, not the bottle near the pram, not the officer's hand at a Jewish man's neck.

Imagine if they'd put the same energy into the crowd.

Now flip it

If these had been One Nation supporters, or any pro-Aussie crowd, it would have been a media circus and riot police in full force.

I'm not guessing.

We've seen it.

On 31 August 2025, the March for Australia rallies went ahead across the country.

Ordinary Australians worried about immigration, out in their thousands.

Sydney police put that crowd at around 15,000.

In Melbourne, around 5,000 people were spread across the rallies and counter-rallies.

And how did the state respond?

The Public Order Response Team.

Mounted police.

Pepper spray.

Baton rounds.

Six arrests.

And the headlines?

"Neo-Nazis".

"Far right".

Wall to wall, before the day was even over.

Yes, there were real neo-Nazis there.

About 150 of the National Socialist Network pushed themselves to the front in Melbourne, and I'd happily see every one of them run out of town.

Avi Yemini, funnily enough, was attacked by those same neo-Nazis that day.

The same Avi Yemini who got moved on this week.

But 150 out of thousands, and the label went on everybody.

Every mum, every tradie, every pensioner who turned up with a flag became a "neo-Nazi" in the next morning's papers.

Now line it up against the State Library.

One crowd had a handful of extremists, and the whole lot got riot police, horses, pepper spray and a branding they'll never shake.

The other crowd held up the face of the man behind the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, on the anniversary of that massacre, and got a polite police presence, zero reported arrests, and a news cycle about the journalist.

When it's a pro-Aussie crowd, the extremists define the whole rally.

When it's this crowd, the Sinwar poster is just one bloke.

That's two-tier policing.

That's two-tier media.

That's two-tier Australia.

Who it's really for

I keep coming back to Carroll's words.

"That date belongs to the victims."

He was right.

So why, when it came to the crunch, did the date end up belonging to the crowd?

Why was the Jewish reporter the one told he was causing a breach of the peace?

Why does an officer get to stand there and say "I'll f**king see you" to a man from his own suburb, and nobody in authority has a word to say about it?

Why are the hate laws, written and rushed through to protect Jewish Australians, gathering dust on the one day they were most obviously needed?

I don't think the answer is complicated.

The mob is loud, it's organised, and it votes.

Pro-Aussie crowds are easy to bash, because nobody in power pays a price for bashing them.

This crowd is a different matter.

Take it on and you'll cop it on social media, in the inner-city seats, and from the activists who've learnt that if you shout loudly enough, the cops will move the other bloke.

So they don't take it on.

They make speeches two weeks out, and then they let the day happen.

What I want to see

I want Victoria Police to tell us about that hand at Yemini's neck, and that line about Caulfield North.

Plainly.

On the record.

I want to know whether anyone looked at that Sinwar poster under the laws this state just passed.

I want the same rules applied to the State Library that were applied to the March for Australia.

Same riot squad, same scrutiny, same headlines when the crowd crosses the line.

And I want the legacy media to show the same appetite for this crowd as they had for the last one.

That's not a radical ask.

It used to be called equality before the law.

Rebel News will keep turning up, because that's what they do.

They'll keep filming crowds that would rather not be filmed.

And they'll keep getting moved on, shoved and threatened, until somebody with real power decides that the rules apply to everyone.

Three years ago, Sydney turned my blood to ice.

This week, in Melbourne, it hasn't warmed up.

And Remember:

Trust no Single Source

Trust Your Gut

and Stay Curious

Lee Robbins

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