Copy paste from another site below. Thought some might enjoy.
Mehreen Faruqi questioning our Anzacs has expectedly brought about many criticisms.
Mehreen Faruqi,
Allow me to address your questions.
Why are ANZAC lives so special? Australia was just a British colony with no cultural or special identity of its own until ANZACs landed on the front lines of WWI and through determination, grit, intestinal fortitude, sheer will and not a little larrikinism gave us an identity.
ANZACs served, lived, and died for Australia. Palestinian “soldiers” are doing it for Palestine so to Australians yes an ANZACs sacrifices worth a lot more than a Palestinian, Israeli, Ukrainian, Russian or otherwise foreign soldiers life. And some ANZACs are and were Muslim so religion doesn’t enter here as a reason why.
As to “smashing the chains of rotten colonialism” as mentioned above ANZACs are a product of post colonial Australia and if you really deserved to breathe free, clean, bomb-free Australian air you would know this.
We have a day that is dedicated to Global Fallen Soldiers we call it Remembrance Day. But the beauty of Australia is if you want to pick a dead Palestinian day and celebrate it then your neighbours probably won’t mind.
ANZAC legends are not in any way “whitewashed” Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders, Horses, Dogs, Birds also served in the first A (Australia) alongside “white” Australians. The NZ part is New Zealand who had Maori Battalion who were more feared by the enemy than the Black Watch of Scotland. Along with “white” men and women, horses, dogs and birds.
In the AC (Army Corps) that’s right you ignorant fuck you’re shitting on the legacy of multiple countries, races and religious beliefs when you shit on the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (better known as ANZAC).
1 You came to Australia to be Australian not turn Australia into the shithole you just left.
2 (and the most important one) fit in or fuck off.
3 if you don’t like Australia you’re free to go back where you came from.
I hope this helps resolve your delusions. But if not and you feel you can’t fit in I will help you pack so you can fuck off."