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In accordance with a policy of purported social cohesion and ostensibly to prevent “Islamophobia,” Australia’s Labor Party government, primarily represented by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, perturbingly appear to be minimizing the malignant, often violent Jew-hatred now occurring in the major cities of Australia.

While many acts of terror are being perpetrated against the Jewish community (here and here), the Australian government has been fast-tracking hundreds of potentially dangerous Palestinians into the country as refugees without proper vetting.

The only country really suited to properly vetting Palestinians and potential jihadist radicals would be Israel. Israeli representatives however, are regarded almost as “personae non gratae” in Australian these days. Some have actually been barred entry.

Meanwhile, Muslim-majority countries, particularly Israel’s neighbours Egypt and Jordan, have refused to accept their Palestinian “brothers” as refugees. Would anyone care to ask why?

Jordan’s King Abdullah II was reported saying, “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.” According to the Associated Press:

“[Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah] El-Sissi also said a mass exodus would risk bringing militants into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, from where they might launch attacks on Israel, endangering the two countries’ 40-year-old peace treaty.”

Could Muslim countries possibly be concerned about importing jihadists into their countries? Western nations, including Australia, for some reason seem not share these concerns. At the same time, of course by sheer coincidence, widespread anti-Semitic acts are being abundantly well-documented.

Australia’s government has also been accused of executing a surreptitious plan to accept radical Islamic “ISIS brides” into the country. Influencer Scott Driscoll wrote:

“It’s absolutely treacherous that any Australian government claiming to have the interests of Australians, our values or our national security would ever let these ‘ISIS brides’ anywhere near Australia ever again! Our country needs to stop being used as some sort of sick looney-left social experiment.”

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, apparently agreed, explaining that ISIS brides who abandoned Australia have “no moral right to come back.”

There were early warning signs of the Australian government’s casual attitude towards growing Jew-hate, despite the horrendous events on October 7, 2023. On that day, Hamas and Palestinians invaded peaceful communities in Israel and slaughtered nearly everyone they came across – men, women, children, babies – torturing, raping, burning and beheading, while dragging hostages off to the dungeon tunnels of Gaza as booty for further leverage and abuse.

A few weeks thereafter, the Biden administration produced a document condemning Jew-hatred, and signed by 36 countries. The November 2023 statement referred to Hamas’s assault as “barbaric.” When the US State Department’s special envoy on anti-Semitism, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, urged the Australian government to sign the statement, it refused to so.

This August, in the Trump administration, spokesman Tammy Bruce commented:

“It was a huge sign that even though the United States pushed them to sign onto this statement—it’s not like we are committing them to anything – they refused. It’s like the top country that should be on there, is not on there.”

It was a sorry indictment of Australia’s leftist government.

It is quite understandable, therefore, that at a conference on antisemitism this month in Gold Coast, child Holocaust survivor Suzi Smeed scathingly described the Albanese government as an “enemy of the Jews”.

Subsequent to the arrival in Australia of countless Muslim migrants and the October 7^th massacre, vocal pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel demonstrations have escalated. This is no coincidence, says David May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Australia’s government is busy “reversing decades of balanced policy on Israel.”

Co-opting iconic public settings, such as Sydney’s Opera House , Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, supported by masses of “far-leftists,” brought attention to Australia’s escalating Jew-hate.

Unsurprisingly, at a July 2025 demonstration outside Parliament in Canberra, some radical leftist Green party Senators “gathered alongside anti-Israel activists in a wild protest, with demonstrators displaying Hitler posters.” Israel’s Foreign Ministry responded to this condemnation of Israel by issuing a statement which read:

“All statements and all claims should be directed at the only party responsible for the lack of a deal for the release of hostages and a ceasefire: Hamas, which started this war and is prolonging it.”

The Australian government did not comment on the protest, nor on the public display of Nazi-themed posters there.

Iranian-born commentator Pouria Mehrani, stated that the protests against Israel, and in favour of Hamas and other murderous jihadists, “thrive on blind emotion… and Left-leaning groups capitalize on such emotions to advance their agendas.” The upshot, he said, is that their “moral bankruptcy is on parade.”

The silent majority of Australians, seeming finally to have had enough of this nonsense, organized in major cities well-attended demonstrations supporting Australia and its traditional Western values.

Australia’s government did manage to criticize the event in Sydney by claiming it was run by neo-Nazis. Labor Minister Murray Watt said:

“We absolutely condemn the March for Australia rally that’s going on today,It is not about increasing social harmony… We don’t support rallies like this that are about spreading hate and that are about dividing our community.”

Yet the same government permitted a anti-Israel n march across Sydney Harbour Bridge attended by 90,000 people, many waving Hamas and PLO flags indicating support for terror and, by deduction, endorsing Jew-hatred.

On September 7, anti-Israel demonstrators clashed with supporters of Israel at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, with the police intervening several times. Rabbi Yossi Friedman, who posted footage of a brawl in which police can be seen separating protesters, commented: “They have come to Bondi Beach where there’s a lot of Jewish people, specifically they’ve come here to bring their hate.”

“Bondi is home to many synagogues, Kosher restaurants and Jewish businesses,” Robert Gregory, CEO of the Australian Jewish Association (“AJA”) elaborated, “some of which have been targeted in recent antisemitic incidents. With more than 100 beaches across Sydney, the decision to choose Bondi was calculated to cause division and disturbance.” The organisation posted a reel of a woman saying in Hebrew “a good Zionist is a dead one.”

However, these type of acts should not surprise anyone. After all, it was inevitable that Jew-hate would filter down despite the country’s supposed emphasis on social cohesion. Islamism is a hate-driven ideology, promoted originally by the former Soviet Union’s poisonous KGB secret service (spy) agency through a contrived Palestinian issue to reach all sectors of Western societies (such as here, here and here). The more members of an extremist Islamic group that are imported into a country, the more attacks on Jews will occurr.

As early as 1974, the Islamist agenda to dominate Western nations was disclosed by Algeria’s Houari Boumedienne in his speech to the United Nations: “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”

That strategy also applies to Australia whose naïve policies allow significant immigration from Islamist war zones. Despite what the government believes, most of these migrants do not intend to integrate, assimilate, or contribute to social cohesion – as the well-attended marches against Israel and Jews reveal. Many newcomers are ideological enemies of the Western democratic tradition. Their plan, called a hijrah (migration), is to share their gift of Islam with open societies through imposition of Sharia law, to export Islam worldwide.

It was Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu who pointed out that “When enemies vow to destroy you, believe them.” Australia’s Labor government has yet to grasp this statement.

As a result, Australia’s emphasis on social cohesion is clearly detached from reality. It is a fantasy. It might have been attainable to some degree prior to the mass arrival of foreigners hostile to the values of the West. Australia’s decision to recognize a fictitious Palestinian state, as well as France’s, Britain’s and Canada’s, totally contravenes the current requirements of international law for nations.

The Australian government apparently believes that Islamophobia adversely affects social cohesion. What it has yet to comprehend is that the concept of Islamophobia is a two-edged sword, sometimes employed to suppress genuine criticism of some of the tenets of Islam, but also to neutralize any criticism of the religion before it can even begin. That is likely why some instances of Jew-hate are conveniently overlooked or minimized. With its nuanced definition, and the idea of Islamophobia has been highly successful in preventing pushback Islamism in the West.

According to US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, Australia appeared more concerned about appointing a special envoy to counter Islamophobia than against anti-Semitism, despite the fact that Jews are far more likely to experience prejudice than Muslims. The fact is that no incidents have been recorded in Australia of Muslims facing attacks on the scale that Jews have experienced — no fire-attacks against Mosques and no mass demonstrations against Muslims for being Muslim.

Given the present circumstances, the conclusion is that the Australian government’s utopian social harmony policy is simply cowardly and unrealistic. The policy innocently assumes that most residents in Australia wish to adhere to Western values as derived from a classic liberal democratic tradition — an open society with entrenched freedoms — when at present that clearly does not seem to be what is taking place before their eyes.

Conversely, many Muslims generally, seem to prefer not to assimilate or capitulate to Western social norms; but appear to expect their new countries, which they have come to by choice, should conform to them, evidently based on a doctrinal assumption that Islam is the only true religion (as here and here) and should therefore have supremacy over all others.

“Hamas is not just at war with Israel. It is at war with Jews, Christians, and the very foundations of civilization itself, ” Mosab Hassan Yousef — a son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef explained. “This is not politics, this is a religious war. Its purpose is to replace Judaism and Christianity with radical Islam. If the world does not understand this, everyone will pay the price.”

It is past time, therefore, that Australia’s government wake-up to the reality of Jew-hating Islamists and their supporters in their midst, and apply appropriate remedial action. Failing that, peaceful Australia will soon reflect increasing social turmoil as experienced in Europe and UK. With a current leftist-socialist government, Australians will unfortunately pay a heavy price for their government’s feckless and destructive policies.

In Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s opinion, “The hardest decision any leader has to make is to thwart a danger before it fully materializes.”

Europe’s weak leadership has failed in this regard, resulting in a catastrophic social crisis for their nations. The question is whether or not Australia will follow a similar course of submission, a recipe for losing the West.

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, Zwiedzaj Polske, Schlaglicht Israel, and many others.