The escalation of violence
And the culpability of weak leadership.
In Melbourne, Australia, the Adass Israel Synagogue1 was burnt to the ground. Witnesses reported seeing masked men throw fuel inside the premises before setting it alight. Our Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated that he personally believes the Melbourne synagogue attack was an act of terrorism. The strike on the Synagogue is the latest in escalating racial attacks in Australia, that up until now, have been brushed over by the powers that be.
Days before the attack, our Government split with the US and voted to support the Palestinian sovereignty in the United Nations vote. The vote represents a shift in a longstanding position. Could the timing of both incidents be a coincide? I’ll let you decide.
If the recent US election tells us anything, its that nobody likes a wishy-washy government. Ironically, or maybe hysterically, not even the minorities that The Democrats pandered to voted blue. For the Biden Harris administration it was the culmination of a four year long shit-show that ended in a landslide victory for Trump. Despite the fact that during his pervious term Trump issued an executive order blocking refugees and travellers with passports from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, he still largely won the muslim vote — go figure.
You see the issue with not wanting to offend the Pro Pal gang is they are so easily offended. Albanese has tried to play a middle-of-the-road game. Don’t mention antisemitism without countering it with islamophobia. Don’t sympathise with the slaughtered Israelis without mentioning the poor oppressed Palestinians. This approach just pisses everyone off. The Jewish community feel abandoned, and the ‘free Palestine’ bunch hate you for not totally dissing Israel. It’s a lose lose situation.
As Labor has gone to extremes not offend anyone, Australians have witnessed an unprecedented rise in racial attacks and street violence. Police have clearly been briefed to allow disruptive protests to continue unabated, which often escalate into chaos. Children and toddlers were taught to chant ‘5, 6, 7, 8, Israel is a terrorist state’ and to call for intifada at a Pro Palestinians led fun day out at Sydney University2, and protestors proudly held up placards with an Israeli flag in a rubbish bin and the words ‘Lets keep the world clean’ on the streets of Melbourne. In Lakemba, video has emerged of Muslim leaders lining up children to take turns lying in Hamas adorned coffin3. Click on the footnote, I kid you not.
Actions that would have once sparked a national outcry, under our current Labor government have become normalised.
Only days ago Australia voted in favour of a UN resolution demanding Israel rapidly end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The vote represents a shift in a longstanding position, and splits with our most important ally in the United States. Australia abstained on similar resolutions at previous meetings of the General Assembly.
The Albanese / Wong government has proudly committed more than ninety million dollars of our hard earned tax payers money in humanitarian assistance to Gaza and Lebanon4, as well as doubled Australian funding to fill the corrupt and terrorist infiltrated United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) coffers.
My question to our government is, what exactly do you think the Palestinians will achieve with the sovereignty once they have it? How do you see this playing out?
How do you plan to create this mythical place of milk and honey that you seem so keen to establish? Who will govern it? Who will police it? Who will wrench it out of the bowels of violence and corruption that it currently inhabits? Once demilitarised, how do you envisage that Israel protects its borders from people that have vowed to repeat October 7 again and again? Or are the muslim electoral seats more important than holding to our democratic alliances and values, and the lives of a peace loving free nation.
What did the Albanese government think was going to happen after months and months of turning a blind eye to hate and terrorist affiliations? Since last October we have seen Hamas flags, Hezbollah flags, Al Qaeda flags and Nazi swastikas. With barely a token response from our fearless leaders.
You can’t sit on the fence when fighting against hateful ideologies that are not consistent with our Australian way of life, of tolerance, equality and freedom. There have been plenty of opportunities for light, that could have been pivotal lines in the sand, where our leaders could have stepped up and taken a strong stand. One such time could have been when the mob screamed ‘Gas the Jews5’ in front of the Sydney Opera House on October 8 — but it didn’t happen.
We must stop the bullshit, and get honest. The Jewish culture is not inherently violent. You cannot compare antisemitism with islamophobia. Any violence or discrimination based on race, gender or religion should not be tolerated, but Jews are not blocking our city streets every weekend chanting to ‘Globalise the Intifada’, or mourning the death of tyrants. They are not stalking suburbs where muslims live and spraying hate and swastikas on their cars and their homes. They are not loitering in groups in keffeyiehs outside mosques, or protesting outside Islamic schools — it’s not their way. And they are not celebrating the death of innocent Palestinians.
Not only is it not racist, but it is without question necessary to be wary or fearful of a group of people that scream violent chants about eradicating Jews through megaphones every weekend, and burn the flags of both Israel and Australia. This is not Islamophobia, its common sense.
A healthy fear of losing the very essence of our way of life is normal. Burning down Synagogues and taking to the streets repeatedly and often violently based on what is happening in a conflict thousands of miles away, is not.
The Australian Labor Party you need to grow a backbone, or as we say in Australia, ‘grow a pair’, and remember who you represent. Not the vocal minority, but the moderate, tolerant, democratic loving majority that count on you to stand up to bullies and intimidation to stand up for what is right. Nobody wants to see children dying in Gaza, but the sooner Hamas is removed and the hostages are returned, the sooner the people of Gaza can attempt to rebuild.
We are not a country of racists, in fact we have openly welcomed millions of immigrants into our sun drenched land, the majority of whom have assimilated beautifully into our culture and way of life. They are our work colleagues, our neighbours, our children’s best friends and have become parts of our families.
Granted there will always be idiots who are racist. But Australia by and large is not a racist country, and we won’t be told by our government or by anyone else that just because we disagree with the frightening religious trends that are infiltrating our society that we are.
The problem is not with the Jews. We need to call a spade a spade. You are much more likely to come across a group of Jews singing the Hava Nagila than mobilising to wreak havoc and destroy property in muslim suburbs.
We can’t fix something we don’t acknowledge.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-10/adass-synagogue-fire-joint-counter-terrorism-team-investigation/104702790
https://www.smh.com.au/national/pro-palestine-kids-event-accused-of-emotional-child-abuse-20240429-p5fney.html
https://www.instagram.com/austjewishassociation/reel/DDTQb9GNJOW/
https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny-wong/media-release/additional-humanitarian-assistance-lebanon
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/we-know-what-was-said-propalestine-protesters-used-abhorrent-terms-at-opera-house-protest/video/4fd36e4b423d8bb4d5a4efe1fe229f4f
It amazes me how many in the West are captured by this dangerous ideology.
We are heading for disaster.
Our UK government has just given £11 billion to Syria. Our open borders are killing us.
When will people wake up?
Demilitarise Israel and grant sovereignty to Palestine? Within 12 months every Jew/Arab in Israel (that can’t escape-because no one will offer them refuge) will be dead. WTF is the world coming to?