If you want to ferret out the roots of the worst of the rampant anti-Semitism rocking Australia for the past year, you have to go back to 1975. That was the year of Malcolm Fraser’s ‘Lebanese Concession’, which opened the floodgates of Arab Islamic immigration. Prior to that, the vast bulk of Muslims in Australia were Albanian. Within two years of Fraser’s unilateral decision, the Muslim population had doubled – almost all Lebanese, settling in Sydney.
Fraser ignored repeated warnings that he was inviting generational social problems into Australia. By the time the Concession was closed in a panic, in 1976, it was too late.
True to the warnings, the consequences of Fraser’s dangerously idiotic virtue-signalling are tearing at Australian society. While the left worldwide are reverting to their pre-WWII anti-Semitism, in countries like Australia the hate is being turbocharged by Muslims. Muslims who, as global surveys show, are endemically anti-Semitic*.
From the moment the news of the horror of October 7 broke, Muslims in Australia broke into open, disgusting celebration of the mass slaughter of Jews. There were fireworks and cheering crowds in western Sydney. Days later, a Muslim mob stormed the Sydney Opera House, chanting ‘Gas the Jews!’ Muslim ‘community leaders’ have been arrested for abducting and torturing a man who worked for a Jewish-owned business. Muslims have publicly touted swastika imagery and the flag of banned Islamic terror group Hezbollah.
Here’s just a few cases from the last few days.
Case 1:
A Labor-appointed member of the Council of the National Gallery of Australia has accused Israel of conducting ‘a holocaust’ against the Palestinian people, calling on Israel’s opponents to ‘end this sickness’ and ‘end Zionism.’
The social media posts by artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah…
A Muslim, appointed to a plum taxpayer-funded job by none other than Minister for the Arts Tony Burke – whose seat in western Sydney is 25 per cent Muslim, one of the highest in the country. If just half of those Muslims turned on Burke at the next election, he’d lose his job.
Funny about that.
Without a blush of irony, by the way, Abdullah accuses Australians of ‘racism’. Apparently it’s not racist to hate Jews.
Case 2:
A Sydney barrister who celebrated slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah for being “on the right side of history” and a “hero of the Arabs” says he will continue to support anyone who fights “against Israeli oppression”.
Jewish leaders have condemned the comments by Lebanese-Australian human rights barrister Mahmoud Mando […]
His comments come after he made social media posts in which he said Nasrallah was “a historical leader, a great fighter ... who was martyred on the road to Jerusalem”.
Case 3:
Arizona State university associate professor Khaled Beydoun […] said October 7 is a day of “considerable celebration” at a pro-Palestinian rally on the eve of the anniversary of the terrorist attack on Israel […]
Beydoun […] told a Sydney rally on the anniversary of Hamas’ massacre in Israel that the day was “not fully a day of mourning” but also a “good day”.
The icing on this particular cake is...
Case 4:
Former ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf had interviewed Beydoun in her new podcast shortly before his controversial statements.
Lattouf, big surprise, is a Sydney Lebanese Muslim. Also big surprise, she was sacked by even the ABC for her anti-Semitic social media posts.
For once, even Labor are being forced to take action: Beydoun has reportedly had his visa cancelled and been deported. Still, as the Liberal opposition point out, it’s all a bit too little, too late.
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said […] he gave Mr Burke “zero credit” for reportedly cancelling the visa of US-based academic Khaled Beydoun who, on October 7 at Lakemba in Sydney’s west, told a crowd that the day was “not fully a day of mourning” but also a “good day” because public awareness of the Palestinians’ plight had increased in the past year.
“Khaled Beydoun should never have been granted a visa in the first place to come to Australia, because he had posted on social media in support of Hassan Nasrallah, the slain Hezbollah terrorist leader,” Senator Paterson told Sky News.
“So you can trumpet this and brief this out and make it look like you’re tough, but cancelling someone’s visa after they’ve left the country has no effect at all, there’s no evidence that Khaled Beydoun was ever planning to come to Australia again, he shouldn’t have been here in the first place.”
Paterson also attacked Burke for appointing Abdul-Rahman Abdullah to the National Gallery job in the first place.
[Senator Paterson] said revelations that a government-appointed member of the National Gallery of Australia’s council had accused Israel of a “holocaust” against the Palestinian people demonstrated that Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke had put his “personal political interests ahead of the national interest” […]
“But Tony Burke can remedy this today, he can clean up this, and he should sack that member of the National Gallery council so that we can move on with someone who actually believes in these institutions and believes in our country.”
Yet we’ll still be reaping the whirlwind of Malcolm Fraser’s willful 1970’s stupidity.
*For the inevitable twits who trot out the ‘Arabs are Semites, too!’ gambit, I invite them to look up the meaning of anti-Semitism: ‘hate towards or unfair treatment of Jewish people’.
