As the shocking wave of anti-Semitism polluting Australia reaches beyond alarming levels, authorities are scrambling for excuses for not stopping it. Anti-Semitic attacks are occurring on a weekly basis and escalating. The latest horrific revelation is that police last week found a caravan packed with explosives, apparently destined for Jewish targets.
Politicians and senior police are doing what they too often do these days: shifting blame and finding excuses.
Senior police are privately warning the strain of escalating anti-Semitic violence and other crimes including domestic violence will leave officers with “one hand tied behind their backs” unless severe under-resourcing is fixed, as a third person now alleged to be “on the periphery” of the caravan terror plot was revealed to be in custody.
With public safety and crime emerging as a top-tier voter issue in Australia amid the anti-Semitism crisis, the Police Federation of Australia is preparing a national election campaign targeting marginal seats demanding more resources from federal and state governments.
So the police union is using Jewish Australians’ safety as a bargaining chip in an ambit claim? Really?
Perhaps if police had done their jobs from the start, it wouldn’t have come to this. The time to stop anti-Semitism was not last week, or last month or whenever Labor governments decided there were more votes in being seen to be ‘tough’ on anti-Semitism than they stood to lose in Muslim-dominated Western Sydney.
The time to stop anti-Semitism was 9 October, 2023.
That was Ground Zero in the anti-Semitism crisis staining Australia. The day a mob of hundreds of Muslims stormed the Sydney Opera House, chanting ‘Gas the Jews!’ (or, improbably, ‘Where’s the Jews?’, if you’re foolish enough to believe ‘expert analysis’ – as if that somehow makes it better, anyway).
Remember that that was the first response of Muslims to the October 7 horrors. Not sympathy for Jewish Australians, not shock at what their fellow Muslims had done – but celebration. The streets of Sydney’s Muslim suburbs erupted into spontaneous celebration: fireworks, and Muslim clerics joyously shouting that they were ‘elated’.
Australian Muslims celebrated the murder, torture, mass rape and mass kidnappings of thousands of Jews.
That was the time for police to put their foot down and stop anti-Semitism in its tracks.
What did they do, instead? They arrested a Jewish Australian, for carrying an Israeli flag. Is anyone surprised that the drooling thugs of anti-Semitism decided that they were untouchable?
Speaking of drooling thugs…
The Greens’ NSW branch has lashed the position of the German Greens on Israel in a letter demanding the party’s sitting members, elected in the country responsible for the Holocaust, more strongly condemn the Jewish state.
Bear in mind that the German Greens were founded by a roster of ex-Nazis. Yet, even they aren’t extremist enough for the Australian Greens.
The letter was sent, berating Germans for not taking a harder line on Jews, on the same week the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
History repeating itself.
