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Anti-Israel protestors — both here in Australia and overseas — have used Christmas to claim that Jesus was not in fact a Jew, but a Palestinian. Attempting to weaponise Christian identity in support of a terrorist organisation by claiming that Jesus was not a Jew is deceitful.

2023 was the year we learned that when Islamic terrorists take babies hostage, far more people around the world will march in support of the terrorists than in support of the babies.

Nigerian Christians are in shock after terrorists launched a bloody Christmas Eve attack against 20 Christian villages.

A peck on the cheek from Hamas is not a compliment. It’s confirmation, as if any were needed, that the Australian Labor Party has completely lost its moral compass.

I see this tragic war of over two months now as a parable for the war on our values, principles and beliefs. In fact, a war on all that we have enjoyed and taken for granted.

We agree with Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, who said he finds it difficult to understand how Australia can support Israel’s right to defend its people from terrorist aggression, while also voting in support of a ceasefire that will embolden Hamas.

Consistent with the tactics of Hamas, pro-Palestinian protestors are using children as human shields to defend their actions. Note how children were present at the recent unauthorised rally in Port Botany.

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.