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Israelis travelling to Australia have been warned of a “potential threat” to their safety by their nation’s security authorities.

Activists within the pro-LGBT Methodist Church claimed Edwards’ words “distressed” co-workers. They accused the father of five of engaging in behaviour that “was extremely damaging”, arguing that he was also potentially hurting the organisation’s “business plan”.

This is not a tit-for-tat war, in which one side’s casualties justify or validate an equal number of deaths on the other side. On Israel’s side, this is a war for security and survival, while for Hamas, it is a war to eliminate Israel.

Hamas is — while taking into account the wild disparity in the sheer geographical and numerical extent of their crimes — qualitatively even more anti-Semitic than the Nazis were.

After 2000 years of virulent holy hatred, Judeophobia, genocide, expulsions, blood libels, ghettoisation, rejection, ridicule and demonisation, the world has not been able to cast off the shackles of innate antisemitism.

Last week, TikTok videos about Osama bin Laden’s “letter to America” went viral, with some on the platform suggesting bin Laden made some good points and was perhaps even justified in attacking the United States.

The core of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is the Geneva Conventions, a set of rules for war negotiated after World War II. IHL attempts to achieve a balance between the necessity of defeating an opponent and limiting needless suffering.

The important thing is to always be living as if this were your last day on earth. In one sense we should always live as if eternity is just around the corner – even today.

In addition to the rich vein of Islamic canonical sources which promote antisemitism, Hamas has also been influenced by the antisemitism of Christian nations.

The barbarity let loose in Israel on October 7 exists right here in the West, only barely restrained. We are in a civilisational battle. The question is whether we will admit it in time to do something about it.

The world is at this moment grappling with a succession of challenges that, if not properly addressed, will cause everything we know to spiral hopelessly out of control.

A key concept in Hamas’ ideology is “occupation”. In the discussion offered here, I am not going to offer insights into international law. My concern is with the ideology of occupation.

We are holding a Kristallnacht event by Zoom tonight to commemorate the stand by Aboriginal Christians William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines’ League against Kristallnacht in 1938 with a protest march to the German consulate in Melbourne.

Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller refuted the claims of Brother Ismael recently at the Al Madina Dawah Centre, southwest Sydney that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation. He also called for Jihad.

Christian Palestinian and former Hamas royalty Mosab Hasan Yousef has condemned Free-Palestine protesters as clueless keyboard warriors.

The mainstream media is in denial of the existential threat Hamas poses to Israel and the Jews, framing Hamas as freedom fighters instead of ruthless terrorists.

While it’s shocking to hear Muslims in Western countries chanting ‘gas the Jews’, or the eliminationist ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, it’s equally concerning to hear non-Muslim Westerners writing off the atrocities of Hamas as ‘acts of resistance’.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (whom we interviewed on The Late Debate a few weeks ago) has just released his plan to defeat Hamas.

Of the Muslims who have come out to protest in support of Hamas, many will be sympathetic to and shaped by the spiritual dynamics described in this and previous posts.

Hamas pursues a genocidal war, while blaming Israel for prolonging the conflict. This way, Hamas can have its cake and eat it too: Israel is blamed for the failure of a two-state solution, while Hamas plans for genocide.