Comment on Israel 'blamed' as Australia cancels ice hockey World Championships - Michael West
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
“Victoria Police advised us that there was a high chance of an incident occurring during the championship due to the escalating anti-Israel sentiment in Melbourne.”
If this is true and the cops a back-peddling you’d want to hope that IHA kept the receipts.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I think there’s possibly differring definitions or intentionally vague usage of ‘incident’ here.
What is meant by ‘incident’? Just a protest? Non-violent disruption of games? Or arson (as suggested by the mention of the synagogue arson)?
I think there’s probably a lot of wiggle room (even if the advice was in writing) for both the cops and the IHA to claim they intended or understood the advice differently.