Just days after the Albanese government sold out Israel and rewarded Palestinian terrorism, Australia is reaping the whirlwind. One of Melbourne’s largest synagogues, built by Holocaust survivors, was targeted in a terror attack by two ‘masked’ men.
More than 60 firefighters have fought a blaze ignited after a suspected arson attack at a Melbourne synagogue early on Friday morning.
The fire began at Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne around 4.10am at Ripponlea in Melbourne’s southeast.
Victorian arson squad Detective Inspector Chris Murray said the “deliberately lit fire” was first caught by a witness who arrived at the synagogue to begin morning prayers.
As for the suspects:
“A witness who was attending morning prayers entered the synagogue, and upon entering has seen two individuals who were wearing masks, for want of a better word,” Det Insp Murray said.
“Masks, for want of a better word.” They were wearing keffiyehs covering their faces, weren’t they?
Synagogue board member Binyomin Klein told the Herald Sun two people in the synagogue were forced to flee after an accelerant was splashed into the building from outside.
“They saw people throw liquid inside and light it on fire,” Mr Klein said. “The two guys had to run out the back door … One of them got burns on his hands.”
The attack comes just days after the government’s horrifying betrayal of Israel, overturning decades of policy, which Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned would “invite more terrorism” and “more anti-Semitic riots”. Turns out he was more right than he knew.
This is the culmination of more than a year of two-faced tolerance of growing anti-Semitism by the Albanese government, which is desperate not to lose the votes of Muslim Western Sydney, or haemorrhage more left-wing votes to the extremist Greens.
No one is fooled by Albanese’s belated affectation of outrage.
Anthony Albanese says the attack on the Melbourne synagogue this morning is “an outrage” and “clearly an act of anti-Semitism” […]
“I have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism. It has absolutely no place in Australia.”
Except that he’s been tolerating anti-Semitism for over a year. His office took nearly 24 hours to even acknowledge October 7, and took weeks to even bother visiting an Australian synagogue. When a howling Muslim mob, chanting ‘Gas the Jews’, attacked an October 7 vigil, his government’s reaction was to prattle about ‘Islamophobia’.
Albanese has conspicuously avoided joining other world leaders in visiting Israel as a show of solidarity. When his Foreign Minister finally, grudgingly, did so, she pointedly avoided visiting the October 7 massacre sites.
At the same time, the government has steadily dismantled decades of bipartisan policy and sold Israel out to the terrorists of Hamas.
Unsurprisingly, then, Australia’s Jewish community is hardly fooled by the belated crocodile tears.
Zionist Federation of Australia President Jeremy Leibler called the attack a brazen and unsurprising escalation of anti-Semitic violence.
“The firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne appears to be another shocking escalation of the hate that we have seen brazenly displayed on the streets of Melbourne every week for over a year,” Mr Leibler said in a statement.
While federal and Victorian Labor governments have done nothing to stop it.
Even when a Jewish MP’s office was firebombed, the government refused to call it what it was: terrorism.
Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns compared the attack of the synagogue to that on his office, saying those responsible must face the “full force of law” […]
Opposition foreign affairs spokesperson Simon Birmingham has linked the Albanese government’s divergence in UN voting patterns on Israel-Palestine affairs to today’s Ripponlea Synagogue fire.
They’ve been pandering to anti-Semitic hate for over a year. They can hardly act surprise when that hatred turns into violence against Jewish Australians.
