Lest anyone should doubt the absolute necessity of Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state, the last two years have demonstrated exactly why. Leaving aside the grotesquerie of denying the indigenous people of the land their right to live there – who would deny the same right to, say, Aborigines or even Māori who can claim a tenure as ‘indigenes’ that’s barely a tenth of that of the Jews in Israel – the absolute necessity of Israel as a refuge for the Jewish people cannot be denied.
The Shoah was so devastating to Jews – the global Jewish population still hasn’t recovered to pre-WWII levels – because the Jews simply had nowhere to flee. There was no Jewish state and many countries restricted Jewish immigration. ‘Never again’ means not just preventing such a crime happening again, but making sure that Jews will never again be without a homeland to flee to.
But ‘never again is now’, as the saying goes. Anti-Semitism is not just endemic in the Islamic world, but reaching alarming levels in the West. Not since the Nazis made open anti-Semitism beyond the pale has such blatantly virulent anti-Semitism stalked Western cities. Whether it’s the disgusting alliance of the left and Islam bellowing Hamas’s genocidal slogans in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne, or Muslim-dominated British councils banning Jewish fans from football matches, the flames of anti-Semitism are raging.
Australian Jews have suffered a second terrifying year of unprecedented anti-Semitism, with the number of assaults, abuse, vandalism and hate messages almost five times the level before the massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023 and the war in Gaza.
The shameful figures support the fears expressed by the Jewish community that anti-Semitism is being normalised in Australia, with hate now ingrained among certain groups of Australians, including the political far Left and far Right. The past 12 months have included the most serious anti-Semitic attacks so far, including the torching of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne – a year ago this week – and Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney, attacks that ASIO has revealed to have been masterminded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Anti-Semitism is no longer hiding in the shadows of the fringe right or the mosques: it’s right out in the open in the universities, in the arts industry (where, for instance, prominent leftists circulated a ‘Jew list’ with names and addresses of Jewish Australians), in the health industry (where multiple doctors and nurses have been exposed spouting Jew-hating rhetoric, including vowing to ‘kill Jews’ in hospitals) and among large swathes of the left-elite. The right, too, are mainstreaming anti-Semitism from such odious figures as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes.
ECAJ warned that political extremes in Australia were becoming “more emboldened and increasingly converging in one area – their common hatred of Jews/Zionists”.
“There is nothing new about anti-Semitism emanating from neo-Nazis, the anti-Israel Left or Islamists,” it said. “What is new is the increasing ideological alignment between them and, at least in the case of Islamists and those on the hard left, growing co-operation.”
Spare me the bullshit that ‘it’s not anti-Semitism, it’s anti-Zionism’. Challenge the goose-stepping clowns who parrot this canard to even define ‘Zionism’ and watch them lapse into spluttering silence. Besides which, if you think that the idea that Jews should be allowed to live in their indigenous homeland is so outrageous… tell me again that you’re not an anti-Semite.
I’m also curious to know how ‘anti-Zionists’ are not anti-Semites, when they continually attack Jewish homes, schools and places of worship. Not to mention attacking and threatening Jews just for being conspicuously Jewish.
The report documents physical violence towards Jews, ranging from threats at knifepoint to the firing of flaming projectiles, from being pushed off bikes to scratching and physical assault.
The past 12 months included some of the most serious anti-Semitic attacks, also including the vandal attack on the former Sydney home of ECAJ co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin, the defacing of two Sydney synagogues and other instances of cars set on fire with anti-Semitic graffiti.
Even when Jews contemplate fleeing to Israel, in the face of such rampant anti-Semitism in the West, they still get attacked.
On Wednesday evening, November 19, in Manhattan, yet another synagogue targeting occurred.
The Park East Synagogue had been booked for an event of the pro-aliyah Nefesh B’Nefesh organization. PalAwada had advertised under the slogan, “All Out To Demand No Settlers on Stolen Land!” and “Protest the Nefesh B’Nefesh Settler Recruiting Fair!” and managed to gather 200 protestors with a significant contingent of Neturei Karta members. Their chants were incendiary and threatening.
And New York’s new Muslim mayor was right out the gate, blasting Jews for preparing to flee to Israel.
Transitioning mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s press secretary, Dora Pekec, released a statement. It read, in part, that “every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”
The ‘activity’ in question was an information session for New York Jews contemplating taking refuge in Israel. Note, too, that Mamdani hid behind weasel-words and equivocations. As if baying mobs of Jews are regularly descending on mosques screaming for the murder of Muslims.
Mamdani, as a Free Press editorial phrased it, “is siding with an anti-Israel mob.”
The Reform movement was alarmed at “this dangerous escalation” and viewed “the weak response from the office of mayor-elect Mamdani” as insufficient, especially due to the use of the slogan “Globalize the Intifada.” Those words had been used by Mamdani himself and it took forever to for him to recant – sort of.
We see the same forked-tongue equivocation from the Albanese government, over and over. They are totally unable to simply condemn anti-Semitism. Instead, every time they even bring themselves to acknowledge anti-Semitism, they reflexively throw in the caveat, ‘and Islamophobia’.
When Muslim kids in Australia have to go to school under armed guard and when mosques are being firebombed repeatedly – then talk to us about ‘Islamophobia’. A word, as the saying goes, ‘a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons’. Literally created by fascists: the term was coined by the widely-banned terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
And now parroted by every idiot and coward of the chattering elite.
