It is sickening that even after the murder of 15 innocent people at Bondi, some locals continue to double down on Nazi and antisemitic tropes, that have been regular on Byron Shire Community pages. Do they not understand that hateful language, anti-Zionist language and Nazi memes have real-world consequences? For example: ‘Zionists should all die’; ‘Eradicate the Zionist element’; ‘Jews are a cancer that will be cut out of our society’ and much more which I have documented.
This is how violence is normalised, and how innocent children like Matilda are lost.
A repulsive meme, posted this morning on the Byron Community Page, was accompanied by a Holocaust-denial video.
Despite being reported to the page administrators, my horror was mocked, and the content remained online, unchallenged. It was even met with numerous ‘likes’ from others endorsing the same vile hatred.
What will it take for people to stop the hate speech that leads to hateful, violent actions, resulting in the death of our beautiful children?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
