On sunday 30th July, 2006, about 3000 Melbournians rallied on the streets of Melbourne CBD against the Israeli aggression on Palestinians and Lebanese.
People came from all sorts of backgrounds, we even had a number of people from the Jewish faith protesting against Zionism. All media was present. However, most media chose to say that the "Lebanese community" or "Islamic community" rallied. While there was a good muslim presence in the rally, they still were not more than 50%. So the media representation was off the mark.
What was interesting was that one of the speakers (member of the Jewish faith) had the backbone to clearly say that Hizbollah and Hamas are not terrorist organizations but rather resistance forces. That was an eye opener for me.
The Age chose to show a picture of a group of muslims in what looked like an aggressive pause. Selective publishing of images can sometimes do the job for the media. The intent is clearly to show that this rally was only attended by a group of violent aggressive muslims who are against poor Israel.
Every TV channel reported the rally and none of them failed to follow it with a report of a Jewish Public meeting in Melbourne that condemned Hizbollah.
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