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Pro-Palestinian activists at Sydney University, Australia, a recent investigative report revealed, have been freely disrupting university lectures, shouting antisemitic slogans and carrying banners declaring “Jews not allowed.” According to the report:

“Jewish workers and students experienced antisemitism daily whilst on campus, creating a workplace of fear, anxiousness and a fear of retribution towards Jewish workers and students because they were Jewish people.”

As has become typical in the West, the report’s recommendations were ignored and a full investigation of the university not undertaken.

For those Jewish scholars and experts from abroad, often invited by the local community in Australia to visit and share their views and expertise, there is news: you might not be permitted to enter Australia. Your visa, even if approved at some earlier stage, could be revoked and you might be silenced. The governing leftist Labor Party may not want you there.

If, however, you are a dedicated Palestinian from Gaza, you are most likely welcome in Australia, with little vetting required. So, come join the many thousands who are there already. Come create your very own “private Idaho,” just as many of your fellow Islamists have already done in Europe.

Scheduled to speak to thousands of people at a fundraising event in June for Australian Friends of Magen David Adom (the offical Israeli ambulance and medical emergency service devoted to saving lives of all people), Hillel Fuld had his visa revoked at the last minute. Fuld, an American-Israeli who describes himself as “a proud Zionist, a tech columnist, advisor to Google and Microsoft, and a father of five,” has over the past 20 months posted on his X and LinkedIn accounts commentary about Hamas’s war on Israel.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, “responsible for importing thousands of Gazans to Australia without adequate security checks,” stated his reason for revoking Fuld’s visa as “‘islamophobia rhetoric’ which risked inciting discord against Australia’s Muslim population.”

Fuld, therefore, was supposedly a “threat to the ‘health, safety or good order’ of Australians.”

Over the past few weeks in Australia, the following incidents against Jews were reported without much consequence:

• Ringleader of anti-Israel protest receives slap on wrist for assault – WATCH
• Gaza comes to the City to Surf
• Club bans ‘fatophobia’ and Zionists
• Local Labor Party branch calls for antisemitic measures
• Jews targeted at Newcastle surf event
• Extremist ‘anti-racist’ to speak at NSW Government-sponsored organisation’s event
• Western Sydney couple get slap on the wrist over antisemitic graffiti

In the overall scheme of things, these events might seem trivial. Jews, regrettably, are often the “canary in the coalmine” – meaning, how Jews as a defenceless minority in the diaspora are treated, portends escalating future actions not only against them but other minorities, and eventually all citizens.

With Fuld, the issue is the curtailment of freedom of speech. Facts are denied a platform, in order to make space for alternative narratives that suit the prevailing political trend. This issue should be of concern to all citizens.

More than a decade back, Charles Small noted about the US:

“Anti-Semitism is a deep, deep hatred, and once we permit this hatred to exist or target one group, it’ll only be a matter of time before other groups are targeted.”

Small was the director of the Yale University Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism until it was closed down by the university after only a few years. Small’s words in 2012 were far-sighted. A decade or so later, we see widely-supported, violent anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist events at Harvard, Yale and University of Pennsylvania, among others institutions (see Appendix). Columbia University, Northwestern University, Portland State University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota are currently under federal investigation.

In Europe, Jew-hatred in France is on the rise again. In early June, French dockworkers prevented a shipment of military goods destined for Israel intended to assist it surviving an onslaught of jihadists from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and its own West Bank. French President Emmanuel Macron, possibly to please his growing Muslim constituency, intended to recognize “steps toward” a borderless, atrociously governed, terrorist Palestine State – contrary to the interests of Israelis, the region, and especially the Palestinians. To justify his actions, and Macron has been lobbying other European nations to follow suit.

Meanwhile, Macron intimated that he would shortly make a decision “whether to implement ‘concrete measures’ against Israel because of the war against Hamas” – never mind that the war was initiated by Hamas, not Israel.

In the famed land of ‘liberty, equality, and fraternity’ the conference can only be seen as an example of unapologetic Jew-hatred from a major EU power, itself infiltrated by jihadists. Macron apparently decided that now would be the perfect time for a re-run of the anti-Semitic Dreyfus Affair 130 years ago, in which a loyal Jewish officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was unjustly charged with treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, a decision overturned only years later

Even though the Dreyfus Affair was considered “a watershed event in the history of European anti-Semitism,” and France during World War II, underwent years of Nazi occupation by the collaborative government of Vichy, nothing, it seems, has been learned. During the French Vichy government, Marshall Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval were responsible for the expulsion of over 76,000 Jews from France to Nazi death camps. Only 2,500 survived.

*** US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee immediately responded to Macron’s proposal:

“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I’ve got a suggestion for them: Carve out a piece of the French Riviera, and create a Palestinian state. They’re welcome to do that… but they’re not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation.”

Are Macron’s government and others not only denying Israel, and its majority Jewish population, the necessary arms to defend itself, but also seeking to recognise a hostile Islamist state inside another country’s borders? What is “chutzpah” in French?

European leaders like Macron, from nations such as Norway, Ireland, and Spain and Great Britain, who consider a “two-state solution” a pathway to peace, evidently wish to reward Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Iran for the massacres of October 7, 2023 – the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust. A two-state ‘solution’ is a certain way to revive Hitler’s “final solution” to the existence of Jews – as well as erasing Israel and its Jewish inhabitants. Assimilation in other countries will not help the Jews as they discovered to their horror during Europe’s fascist era, when they lost more than six million of their people, and would have lost far more were it not for the heroic actions of Raoul Wallenberg, Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oskar Schindler, Denmark’s King Christian X and many others less known. They risked and even sacrificed their lives rather than to submit to a massive injustice — which other politicians and leaders seem all too willing to impose on Jews now.

**** The harsh reality is that much of the world thinks the worst of Jews – for no rational reason whatsoever. This psychopathology seems to conclude that it is actually morally and spiritually superior to eradicate a people and their religion in a genocide.

*** Why else would millions continue to be killed, raped, and tortured in Sudan and Nigeria, for instance, without much comment from the mainstream media, and dedicated Western pro-Palestinian demonstrators? Why is only Gaza, and by implication Israel’s supposed culpability, the world’s main focus?

“While civil wars have displaced over 10 million in Sudan, “Beth Kuhel reports, “– where mass rape, ethnic cleansing, and child slavery have returned to Darfur — Western students chant that Israel is the world’s greatest evil.”

The battle over Israel’s survival and that of the Jewish people, appears to be a spiritual battle fought, as always, in the physical realm. The Israelis of today, like the Israelites of antiquity, probably need to be prepared to fight continually for their land, their people and the acceptability of their holy book, the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. The shocking failures of October 7, 2023, however, cannot be allowed ever to happen again – and Israel’s putative allies cannot be relied on.

Israel, despite the odds, will prevail. “No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,” proclaimed Isaiah, “and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”

Believe it.

Nils A. Haug is an author and columnist. A Lawyer by profession, he is member of the International Bar Association, the National Association of Scholars, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Dr. Haug holds a Ph.D. in Apologetical Theology and is author of ‘Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity’; and ‘Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age.’ His work has been published by First Things Journal, The American Mind, Quadrant, Minding the Campus, Gatestone Institute, National Association of Scholars, Jewish Journal, James Wilson Institute (Anchoring Truths), Jewish News Syndicate, Tribune Juive, Document Danmark, and many others.