After yet another example of the Israeli governments outrageous and arrogant behaviour yesterday, protests have been global. Australia has a large Eastern European and Middle Eastern community, particularly Turkish and Palestinian so the backlash was inevitable.

Having not seen the news all day, I was cutting through the CBD after work when all the traffic ahead came to a complete stand still. I boosted up to the front to find the 6 lane junction full of hundreds and hundreds of protesters and police engaged in a testy stand off. The unsanctioned protests had caused police to close all the roads around me so I parked up the bike and took a wander. Various loud hailers were being used to work up the crowd and the down with/death to… chants rang out. Then I came across about 50-60 men in lines facing in the same direction within the crowd, all with shoes off. As they made their prostrations they just happened to have lined up facing a squad of sheepish looking policemen, giving the surreal impression that they were bowing to them…