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As I wrote this, Israeli President Isaac Herzog is due to land in Sydney, beginning a visit of condolence for the Jewish Australians murdered at a Bondi Hanukkah celebration. Proving that they’ve learned nothing from their reckless egging-on of the hate that murdered dozens of Australians just two months ago, the dark forces of fashionable anti-Semitism will be out, howling and screaming, again.
In case you’re inclined to try peddling the already-threadbare excuse that ‘It’s not anti-Semitic to criticise Israel!’ – spare me. In fact, sod all the way off and keep going.
That was never more than the most threadbare of excuses. And what little tattered-veil legitimacy it might have had has been ripped completely away by the past two months, not to say the past two years.
Let’s ignore, for instance, that the first reaction of Australian Muslims and leftists to October 7 was glee. Fireworks, carloads of Muslim men careening around the streets of Western Sydney’s suburbs and imams telling cheering crowds that they were ‘elated’. Two days later, a mob of mostly Muslims, accompanied by leftist politicians, stormed what was supposed to be a vigil for the dead. Whether they chanted ‘Gas the Jews’ (as we all heard) or ‘Where’s the Jews’ (as the police want us to believe), is either really any better?
Even more ominous was that Jewish Australians were told by police and politicians to stay away. From a vigil for murdered Jews. Let that sink in.
When one brave Jewish Australian tried to attend, he was arrested: the sole arrest made by NSW on that shocking night.
Within days, as they have non-stop for the past two years, the Australian left furiously attacked Israel, while praising Hamas.
Remember that all of this was weeks before Israel fired a single shot in self-defence.
That simple fact alone demolishes any claims by the left that their foaming hate is anything to do with the war in Gaza. Israel hadn’t fired a single shot in the war in Gaza, but the left-Islam alliance’s first response was to attack Israel.
And lest anyone still tries to argue that it’s ‘anti-Israel, not anti-Jew’, the final, damning question is: why Israel?
As Australian comedian Sandy Gutman (“Austen Tayshus”) asked a QandA panel years ago: why, out of all the nations in the Middle East, let alone the world, do the left hyper-focus on Israel?
Don’t lie to us that it’s ‘anti-war’ or ‘because of civilian suffering’. There are far more devastating wars going on right now, yet the left-Islam alliance says not a peep about them. Not a single march, banner or slogan, let alone attacks on expatriates of the nations involved.
In fact, the left-Islam alliance openly celebrates one of the most murderous regimes on the planet.
Where were these protesters, who were so angered by the deaths of Palestinians in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, when the flower of Iran’s youth were being slaughtered in their thousands by Iran’s repressive regime last month?
“These marchers should be asked: Where are you all when tens of thousands of Iranian innocent civilians are butchered by their own regime … where are you? Where’s the outcry?” Herzog told the Australian before he departed Israel for Sydney.
After all, in just a week, Iran murdered more civilians – all Muslim and all ‘people of colour’ – than have died in two years of being used as human shields by Hamas. By their own standards, the left-Islam alliance should have been incandescent with rage. There should have been a sea of anti-Khomeinist banners swamping the streets of Melbourne and Sydney.
Why is it that these protesters give a free pass to Iran’s medieval and brutal theological regime when it slaughters Muslim men and women in cold blood on the street for wanting nothing more than freedom?
But the left-Islam alliance’s sickening hypocrisy goes even deeper than just silence in the face of atrocity. When they had their biggest anti-Jew march, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, at the front of the hate-march, towering over the simpering conga-line of anti-Semitic scum, including Julian Assange, Mehreen Faruqi and Bob Carr, were placards praising Iran’s mass-murdering dictator, Ayatollah Khamenei. Flying ominously above the knuckle-dragging throng was the ISIS flag.
Even more notably, when Iranian-Australians protested the mass-murder of their families and friends, they did so outside left-Islam central: the ABC. Not a single leftist joined them.
Those activists who had called for Herzog’s visit to be banned clearly do not believe Australia’s Jewish community, despite the horrors of the past two years and the slaughter in Bondi, are deserving of having the head of the Jewish homeland visit here to embrace them for their loss.
By protesting during Herzog’s visit they are helping to further divide Australia and further alienate Jews, which of course is what the terrorists in Bondi were hoping for.
No, by protesting they are just giving the game away, for all to see, that it was never about war or civilian deaths: it was and is only ever about Jews.
