Grandmother Blames Marxist Rhetoric for Fueling Hatred After Being Egged at Rally

Nessa knew by waving an Australian flag just metres away from the mass Palestine rally that it could have been seen as provocative.

It’s the second time she’s been egged for waving a flag—this time, an Australian one—and the grandmother, who has chosen to withdraw her surname, warns Australians that Marxist-inspired ideology is creating “us and them” situations and sowing hatred in society.

“Today I was egged. It’s the second time I’ve been egged at a rally,” she told The Epoch Times. “The first time I was holding a flag of Jerusalem, and the flag took it all.

“The second time the guy got a lot closer. He was not even 10 metres away, and this was a male throwing.

“He hit me in the chest really hard. I got it all over my arm.

“It’s very frightening. I’m halfway through my 50s, and I don’t believe it’s my job, but no one else seems to be doing it.

“If you look at the ages of all the women here [in this rally], we’re all 45-plus. It should be young men, but it’s not. So if we don’t do it, who’s doing it?”

“Democracy is about the exchange of free ideas. I should be allowed to stand with the Australian flag because I love it.

The ladies held their own smaller rally on the footpath along the King Street Bridge during the “March for Gaza” on Aug. 3 in Melbourne that was conducted in solidarity with the mass 90,000-strong rally over Sydney’s Harbour Bridge.

That protest was organised by the Free Palestine Coalition Naarm and was contacted by The Epoch Times for additional comment.

Australians Being Divided

The rally also attracted an array of left-wing causes including the Victorian Socialists.

Nessa says that the big issue is how Marxist ideology now underpins so many movements and ideas because they have been widely disseminated through school and university curriculums.

Originating in the works of 19^th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marxism posits that the ruling class (bourgeoisie), who own the means of production, systematically exploit the working class (proletariat), who must sell their labour power to survive.

From Marxism, other ideologies would spring forth in later decades across different fields, yet always centered on a basic concept that society is divided into classes and that they always need to fight each other—as opposed to cooperating and working together, which is what occurs in traditional relationships.

Examples of these manufactured divisions are prevalent across education material, media reporting, and public discourse, and they include conflicts like: Labor vs. Liberal, boomers vs. Millennials, bosses vs. workers, and even landlords vs. tenants.

Nessa believes the Israel-Palestine conflict is the latest flashpoint in these tensions.

“It seems as though our institutions and even governments are being taken over by ideologies that seek to divide us along the lines of colour, race, gender, and now even which flags to fly is up for debate,” she said.

“The national anthem calls for us all to unite under the banner of youth, freedom, and to celebrate Australia’s bountiful land.

“It’s clear that either our Australian history has been corrupted, or it hasn’t been taught? Some Australians seem to have forgotten or misunderstand Australia’s World War I battle in the Middle East.

“Australian soldiers fought and helped win a strategic battle in Beersheba back in 1917, and ultimately that win helped liberate Israel from the clutches of the Ottoman Empire. Israel is now the only democracy in the Middle East.”