NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers

Pro-Palestine and climate activists join Jewish voices criticising entirely inconsistent police responses' and unfathomable approval'

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A former Greens candidate who required surgery after allegedly being struck by police at a pro-Palestine protest says she was sickened" by the force's authorisation of a neo-Nazi rally outside state parliament, alleging it showed a clear double standard".

New South Wales police authorised Saturday's neo-Nazi rally at which about 60 men clad in black called for the abolition of the Jewish lobby, with speakers repeating antisemitic tropes. The decision by NSW police was condemned as unfathomable" on Sunday by one Jewish group.