At last Sussan Ley has found an issue with which to not only belt the government, but finally find a wedge of policy difference. As she battles to hold on to her leadership of the battered Liberal Party of Australia, Ley has been volubly criticised by many conservatives as too wet, weak and Labor-lite. On one clear-cut moral issue, though, she has found her backbone: anti-Semitism and its shameful coddling by multiple Labor governments.
Especially the utter, spineless failure by both the federal and NSW state governments to do anything to stop a blatantly anti-Semitic march from grotesquely celebrating the second anniversary of the October 7 terror massacres.
Sussan Ley has slammed the Albanese government for having failed to have “stood with the people of Israel nor with the United States” in the last two years since the October 7 terrorist attacks.
Speaking before question time on the two-year anniversary of the day, the Opposition Leader said the attack was “a brutal reminder of the depths of human cruelty and of the evil that flourishes when hatred is armed”.
And Labor’s reaction is an even more brutal reminder of just how far left-wing governments will go to pander to the most grotesque hatreds, just to win a few votes.
“I wish I could be able to say that Australia did all that it could to help release the hostages and the violence to dismantle the terrorist group Hamas, yet to do so would be a lie,” she said.
“To our great shame, under the leadership of the Albanese Labor government, Australia has not stood with the people of Israel nor with the United States as they have sought to dismantle Hamas and establish the conditions for peace.
“To our great shame, the Albanese Labor government dragged its feet listing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.
“Two years on, we stand apart from our friends in this time of their greatest need. Two years on, Australia has failed to stand firm in the face of terror.”
No wonder Albanese’s government has been openly lauded by Hamas. And this only compounds the shame heaped on Australia when a Muslim mob stormed the Sydney Opera House two years ago, chanting “Gas the Jews”. All while the NSW government and police did nothing – except to arrest a Jewish-Australian for carrying an Israeli flag.
When Ley says that they “have allowed hate to take root onto our streets and into our communities”, she is referring to, not just the planned pro-terror march, but the wave of anti-Semitic terrorism which has stained Australia for two years.
And is still going on, virtually uninhibited.
Police have arrested a man after witnesses reported a gun may have been pointed in the direction of a synagogue in Sydney’s North Shore.
Just before 10am today NSW police were called to the Cremorne Synagogue on Yeo Street after a man was spotted pointing “what was believed to be a firearm from a moving truck towards a place of worship”.
A NSW Police spokesperson said two men were arrested a few blocks away on Raglan Street, Mosman, just under two hours later.
“The passenger – a 23-year-old man – was taken to Chatswood Police Station where he is assisting with inquiries. The driver – a 21-year-old man – was released pending further inquiries,” Police said.
It will be interesting to see if police release the names of the suspects – or indeed if they get so much as a pat on the wrist.
Israel isn’t blind to what is going on in Australia.
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Sharen Haskel issued a rebuke to the Albanese and Allan governments, urging immediate action.
“My message to Australian leaders AlboMP and JacintaAllanMP on the second anniversary of October 7, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is get your country in order, stop the Jew-hate,” Ms Haskel wrote on X.
“What the hell is this billboard doing in Melbourne? Don’t you have hate crimes? You have a police force, right? Take this down immediately. What on earth is wrong with Australia?”
What is wrong is that we have a Labor government whose only moral compass is power – and who’s head-counters are well aware that there are vastly more Muslims in Labor’s electoral heartland in Western Sydney than there are Jews.
And so the entire country continues to pay the dire price of Malcolm Fraser’s reckless decision in 1975–6 to flood the country with thousands of Muslim ‘refugees’. A decision only exceeded in its blind stupidity by Labor’s decision to welcome 3,000 Hamas supporters from Gaza – literally with open arms, in the case of Tony Burke whose seat has the highest percentage of Muslim voters in the country.
