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A searing indictment of antisemitism, political cowardice, and Islamist ideology—arguing that Hanukkah attacks aren’t coincidences, but consequences of denial, indulgence, and a refusal to confront hard truths.

Jews call Hanukkah a festival of light. Islamists call it an opportunity.

December is a time when Jews light candles and when Islamic terrorists try to extinguish them.

Islamists going full jihad on Jewish holidays is not an accident or a coincidence. It’s a clue.

How can I put this delicately?

One side is celebrating a Festival of Lights, and the other is murdering them.

Of course, our Prime Minister thinks the problem is that too many non-Muslims have guns.

So he will import more and more people from a cohort in which some will want to kill Jews, all the while disarming the rest of the population.

Logical Conclusion

No, I’m not saying all or even most Muslims want to kill Jews. But we know a small number do. And it only takes one person to go full Allahu Akbar for Australian Jews to have their Hanukkah candles snuffed out.

It is obvious to everyone apart from our government that there is a direct line — straight and unbroken — between the tolerance and indulgence of pro-Palestine mobs in the West and acts like what we saw at Bondi.

The mobs chanted “gas the Jews”, and then they demanded Jews be removed “from the river to the sea”, and they even urged the world to “globalise the intifada”.

Next minute, a couple of Western Sydney Muslims decided to make a play for the promised 72 virgins offered by their religion as a reward for killing Jews.

You’d have to be a Labor MP not to see the connection.

Of course, not all Muslims are destined to take up the sword of Muhammad.

Thankfully, the overwhelming majority don’t seem to take the Koran or the Hadiths so seriously that they can be called “extremists”.

Which is an interesting point in itself that no one seems eager to explore. How is it that an extremist Muslim is one who simply takes Islam to its inevitable, bloody conclusion?

I remember asking a university professor who had become a Christian and so fled Pakistan after threats on his life, “What’s the difference between a moderate Muslim and an extremist?”

His instant, matter-of-fact reply:

“A moderate Muslim hasn’t read the Koran.”

Make of that what you will.

Don’t call me an Islamophobe for simply telling you what a man running from death threats told me.

Security Threat

Anyway, it seems our government has decided to invite large numbers of Muslims into our country without any real way of knowing who is moderate and who is not, let alone which moderates may one day suddenly become — in the words of our political elite — “radicalised”.

Now again, I’m not saying all or even most Muslims are bad people. Not at all.

But is it not reasonable to ask how many radicalised Muslims we are prepared to tolerate?

Is it acceptable for 10 percent of the people we import to radicalise?

What about five percent?

Would we be okay if it were only one percent who went full rat-a-tat-tat on Australian Jews, and then on other inconvenient infidels?

If you continue to invite followers of Islam into your country, subsidise them, flatter them, excuse them, and wrap them in the warm blanket of the welfare state — while they grow in numbers faster than the native population and embed themselves into every institution of civil society — are you not making a choice?

Are you not deciding that the murder of Jews (and later, Christians) is an acceptable price to pay for being thought tolerant and modern?

Incitement to Violence

Here’s another thing no one wants to talk about:

Those so-called conservatives who spread their conspiracy theories about the Jews via their fashionable podcasts must also take a long, hard look at themselves.

Antisemitism doesn’t care whether it’s wrapped in keffiyehs or conspiracy theories. It just wants permission.

And too many people, in too many places, are still giving it exactly that.

Unless there is brutal honesty from our political leaders and media, the events of Bondi will be repeated over and over again.

We will be always attending candlelit vigils, always signing condolence books, always announcing more restrictions on law-abiding Australians, always burying Jews from the shrinking Jewish community that remained in the lucky country because they foolishly believed we were not a bunch of fools.

I fear the outrage at what happened in Bondi will last right up until whatever the next outrage is.

We’ve seen it right across the West for the past 30 years. Every Islamic terror attack is met with grief, renditions of John Lennon’s Imagine, flowers marking the scene of the jihad, and celebrities urging us to choose love over hate.

What no one ever addresses, anywhere, is the ideology that promotes hatred of Jews in the name of religion.

That our Prime Minister can barely bring himself to say the words Islam or even Islamist does not bode well.

Appeal for the Bondi Terrorist Attack Victims

Celebrate Israel, in partnership with the Canberra Declaration and other supporters, have organised a relief fund appeal for the victims and families of the Sydney Bondi Beach terrorist attack.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.