THE RISE OF ANTISEMITISM
This article follows on from my previous post The Fall of the Two Party System
The Rise of
Antisemitism
But that issue was only a precursor of more social
destabilization to come where with the horrendous 7.10. 23 Hamas, attack on
Israel, just 7 days before the Voice referendum, would rip what social cohesion
remained to straining point. This declared terrorist regime that controlled
Gaza would dominate the headlines for the years to come.
Within 24 hours of this terrorist attack two events that
would herald a total loss of moral clarity for the better part of the next two
and a half years occurred. A Moslem cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Daudon, before a
crowd shouting “Allah Akbar” shouted “I’m smiling and I’m happy. I’m elated, It’s
a day of pride. It’s a day of courage, a day of victory we’ve been waiting
for.”
And then the march on
the Opera House, where Australian Jews were to meet in a vigil of mourning, a
Palestinian flag waving mob shouting “Where’s/gas the Jews” (indistinguishable)
burnt the Israeli flag set off flares and celebrated the murder, by gunfire
stabbing, strangling, beheading and immolation. 1200 men, women, children, babes
and elderly were killed and 251 hostages taken with many deceased victims raped
and desecrated. All this, two weeks before Israel had taken any retaliatory
action against Hamas and witnessed by NSW police without intervention other
than one Israeli man held for carrying an Israeli flag.
For the next two and a half years similar events would occur
regularly throughout our nation with the shouts of “from the river to the sea”,
“globalize the intifada” and later, “Death, death to the IDF”, all of which are
calls for the destruction of not only Israel but Jews worldwide, including
Australian citizens.
With the government giving little more than lip service to
this rising antisemitism, and incapable of mentioning the former without
including a non-existent islamophobia, and despite Jewish Australians calling
for action in fear of increasing vandalism, hate speech and violence it was
allowed to continue under the guise of freedom of speech and political
implications.
The hater’s words turned to action, the stabbing of a
priest, the burning of synagogue, a child care centre and finally the
predictable outcome that forever will be known as “The Bondi Massacre”.
Hitler’s final solution had taught us nothing. All the signs were there but our
government was unwilling to see.
There was one failed attempt by this government to deal with
a cleric, Wissam Haddad, accused of hate speech. He was not alone in delivering
it. His broadcast ended in “the trees will speak, the stones will speak, if you
see a Jew behind you, kill him.”
The cleric walked away free because he was quoting verse in The Koran.
As what for the moment remains predominantly a Judeo-Christian
country, many of we Australians would have issue with that ruling. While the
cleric focused his hate on the Jews, the text includes kafir/ infidels which
translates to non-believers of Islam. That identifies all other denominations,
atheists and agnostics alike which are represented by 96,8% of our population.
While our vast Moslem population do not adhere to this text,
some may well. And many of us would delve into the minds of the two alleged
Bondi massacre shooters, both of whom were reportedly part of the Wisam
Haddad’s group of adherents. What was their motivation? We may never know. Clearly, in retrospect, this
quotation from the Quran needs far better attention in understanding its effect
in radicalizing those who act upon it in the belief it is justified as God’s
work.
Even the historical lessons of the catholic Holy-Medieval
Inquisition, continuous between the 12th and early 19th
century. Those who did not strictly adhere to the scriptures and teachings of
the church were at times subjected to torture and death in draconian ways
whether they were within or outside the church have been forgotten. Even those
of science who challenged the teaching of creation in the study and revelations
of our solar system became victims. Astronomer/mathematician Copernicus who
placed the Sun as the centre of our solar system and not the Earth was one who went
before the holy inquisition trial. As a canon of the church, highly connected
and with care his observation was put aside and he survived, but his
observation was banned 70 years later in favour of the churches doctrine of
creation.
At a time in our
history when we espouse to racial and religious tolerance our government seems
to tolerate the very thing that contradicts it, a text that allows no tolerance
of another religion under potential pain of death to the non-believer. In that
alone, preaching this text surpasses hate speech in what it may induce one to
commit in the name of and with the blessing of God
After years of woke ideology, the incremental breakdown of
our social cohesion, attacks on our national heritage, fear of being called
racist or uncaring for objecting to the abandonment of long held values there
came a pivotal moment in our history. A bloody, confronting, and tragic one. 14
December 2025, The Bondi Massacre.
Two alleged gunmen, father and son, late in the afternoon
during a Jewish Hanukkah festival shot to death 11 men, 3 women, a 10-year-old
girl and wounded 44 others. Australia was in shock. But accompanying it was a
cocktail of sympathy, mourning and anger that would have lasting
recriminations.
Many saw that this heinous act fell partially to the lack of
positive action by the government, which despite the signs, and warnings,
failed to act appropriately to the rising temperature of rampant antisemitism.
There were calls for a royal commission which prime minister, Anthony Albanese
rejected until weeks later, he was dragged, reluctantly to institute one, yet
claiming it was always his intention. It was a win for justice, though the time
frame and terms of reference did not satisfy all.
And then, although few may realize or admit it, another
emotion came into play, guilt. The Bondi massacre and other factors that
proceeded it played on people’s minds, and many realized we had allowed it to
happen by not doing enough ourselves in preventing them by pushing the Albanese
government harder on immigration and the hate filled weekly protests. Sure, we
got our Royal Commission but there was more to do.
With the royal commission yet to play out and an interim
report receiving mixed reviews in its lack of detail on the contentious issue
of the radical Islam and the role it played in favour of lesser catalysts,
those who hold to a realist approach in calling out the obvious cause that for
political expedience have gone unacknowledged, grow in number.
This article continues in my next post The Rise of One Nation.
© 2026 Bob Janssen | BobJanssen.com.au
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