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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has this week started to wheel back from his recent Inglorious Basterds rebrand.

The former Immigration Minister, who literally made a name for himself by stoking racial tensions between the wider public and demonised minority groups, had surprised the nation by revealing that he thinks a recent spike in ethnic bigotry was ‘not good for society’.

The Liberal Party’s decision to present themselves as the staunch defenders of Jewish people has followed a wave of disgraceful antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.

Jewish leaders have been vocal about the fact that their communities have experienced a spike in Antisemitism since the October 7th attacks on Israel, as the conflict in the Middle East causes great damage to social cohesion in Australia.

As the Member for Dickson in Brisbane’s Northside mortgage belt, Peter Dutton would be unfamiliar with this type of racism. Throughout his career as a Fortitude Valley highway cop during the Sir Joh era, and his subsequent work spent deporting asylum seekers and warehousing them in offshore detention centres, the Opposition leader is far more used to a landscape where Aboriginal people, Polynesians and Muslims are the punching bags.

In recent years, he has also worked tirelessly to seed the ‘African Gangs’ narrative into the Australian news cycle.

It is not clear if he’d even met a Jewish person before the 2018 Libspill, when he unsuccessfully lobbied Josh Frydenberg to help him destroy Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership, in turn, gifting Prime Minister Scott Morrison to Australia.

But now, not only has Peter Dutton had to quickly educate himself on the history of Antisemitism in Australia, but he also has to pretend he doesn’t like it when Australians turn on each other.

Maybe he has had a change of heart when it comes to leveraging political points by fracturing Australian society into goodies and baddies, or maybe he’s just motivated by the fact that the Liberal Party needs Jewish suburbs to start voting for them again if they ever want to win back power.

Regardless, his new mission to protect Jewish communities has been made a lot easier by his assumption that the people that have been graffitiing and firebombing Jewish sites are the type of people he already has a problem with: Arabs and lefties.

However, police investigations now point to the fact that the vast majority of the attacks have been perpetrated by TRUE BLUE AUSSIES. The type of people he’s spent the last twenty years stirring up.

Peter Dutton is now redirecting his focus towards banning the Welcome To Country at sporting events.

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