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There’s none so blind as those who refuse to see – and none so blind to the inherent corrosiveness of Multiculturalism as those who refuse to see past their Friday night kebab. Despite the clear nexus between the past two years of escalating anti-Semitic violence and Islam in Australia, the Multicult persist in denying the bleeding obvious.
Many people who oppose mass migration to this country worry that it is undermining our social cohesion and national identity.
The Bondi massacre targeting Jews and perpetrated by two Islamic extremists, one of whom was an immigrant, has brought these fears into stark relief.
Some conservative commentators have even cited this atrocity as a reason to scale back our immigration program. I think this is wrong and unfair, tarring all immigrant communities with the same brush. It takes attention away from the pathology of Islamic extremism, which I agree must be stamped out in this country, including by better vetting of would-be migrants from countries where antisemitic beliefs are common.
In other words, Islamic countries. As survey data shows, Islamic countries are overwhelmingly anti-Semitic, with rates ranging from 70 per cent in ‘moderate’ Indonesia to nearly 100 per cent in Middle Eastern countries, which immediately contradicts the denial of a link between mass immigration and rising anti-Semitism.
Besides, we can all believe our lyin’ eyes. As former PM Tony Abbott notes, the prevalence of obviously Muslim faces – beards and hijabs everywhere – at anti-Jewish rallies for the past two years cannot be denied. Nor can it be denied that the perpetrators of Bondi were Muslim immigrants, who had trained at overseas jihadi camps and brandished an ISIS flag as they murdered Jewish Australians.
Of course, what also cannot be denied is the deplorable role the nation’s left-elite have played in amplifying the ingrained anti-Semitism of the local Islamic diaspora.
While this form of hatred has always been with us, before [October 7, 2023] it was no more than a niche, underground phenomenon. You could find it in a handful of mosques in western Sydney, the odd elite university lecture theatre, and among local neo-Nazis, but virtually nowhere else.
Yet today, antisemitism has been mainstreamed and even glorified under the guise of hostility to Israel and Zionists.
Why? Because our local elites have looked the other way, and in some cases even promoted it, with our elite university vice-chancellors the worst culprits and few top people in corporate, public service or cultural circles bothering to speak up (until Bondi shamed a small number of them into action).
Even this is a Pollyanna view of just what has been going on in the left elite. Their unhinged hatred of Israel, always skirting the ragged edge of open anti-Semitism, goes back decades. Look no further than footage of a young Anthony Albanese joining a virulently anti-Israel mob. For years, the Greens and the mainstream left have been involved in a string of blatantly anti-Semitic incidents, including bellowing Hamas’ death chants in parliament.
The pernicious influence of local elites extends well beyond the rise of antisemitism. For decades now, they have been peddling an imported, hateful progressive ideology that has eaten away at the foundations of our social cohesion and cultural inheritance. Our patriotism. Our sense of community. And our distinctive Australian creedal values.
The fix for this part of the anti-Semitism equation is obvious, and one I’ve advocated for years: bulldoze the universities. Strip funding from schools, even pre-schools and day cares which push open ideological instruction. Reform the national curriculum. Clean sweep the quangos. Dismantle the redoubts of the Long March left.
But this is too much for the pussy normiecon establishment.
Reforming our leading institutions will take time, but we have to start somewhere. Simple personal gestures matter.
Flying the Australian flag, expressing a love of this country (for all its flaws), seeing each other as Australians first and foremost, and restoring meritocracy in the public service and other institutions are good places to start.
Not being intimidated by the name-calling of progressives is essential.
This is all well and good, and I wholeheartedly support it, but the left didn’t take over the institutions by being timid chickenhearts, flying their dinky Pally flags and nothing else.
The anti-immigration protesters who say the barbarians are at the gate have got it wrong. The barbarians have been undermining us from within.
Both are in fact right. The barbarians are at the gates and barbarians are inside the gates – holding them wide open for more barbarians. The Trojan horses are not one, but two: mass-immigration Multiculturalism and the Long March left.
