When I was growing up, Canada seemed like an open and liberal society where Jews could feel at home. Today, this is no longer the case. Most Canadians of my generation probably agree.
I agree with you totally! Canada was once a beautiful Country. Now it is a monstrosity! They have created a war from nothing. Trudeau is a coward and has lost his mind! How dreadful it must be to be Jewish and living in Canada. I do believe that when the new government replaces him, as they surely will, things will change. However that is no comfort to you in the meantime. The world has taken leave of its senses. You will get through it though!
Montreal has become the bombshell centre of these hate filled violent protests with the police maintaining a pacific presence from all evidence. Mayor Plante is shamefully absent only able to meekly condemn the actions of the rioters. No action will only embolden rioters to further escalate the violence.
As for Justin Trudeau, you are correct. He dances as Montreal burns.
A sad, but true commentary, and not unlike the US, France, and England who appease their Muslim groups because of their cowardice and lack of backbone. I can almost accept the inherent antisemitism in communities who have now been given permission to come out of their holes and scream to the world of their hate for Jews. What is difficult for me to swallow are the so-called leaders of Western countries who show blatant disregard for Israel and Jews. The only recourse will be for these gangs of elitist know nothings to be voted out of office, or have their terrorist supporting Muslims turn on them. Either way would be fine with me. Keep the faith Stephen, change is coming.
I agree, but Europe got what they deserved, open borders for all. When is Trudeau's term completed? Let's hope he is voted out of office. Spoiled, elitist wimp.
Europeans (nor AusCanNZUK-ians) don't "deserve" this since we didn't make it happen! It was brought upon us by technocratic oligarchy demanding open borders and cheap labour paired with leftist multicultural cultism. We never consented to any of the demographic changes that were forced on us.
Brain-washed Woke generations are now influencing "democratic" elections. Australia has a (compulsory voting) preferential system so the Marxist pro-palestine openly anti-Israel "greens" have undue influence in Australia's election outcomes esp. amongst the younger generations, and the majority vote does not always win under this system.
Australia's left-wing socialist PM and several of his ministers are openly supporting pro-palestinian anti-semitism to appease their muslim constituents. Clear-thinkers are hoping the people will replace these bigots at the federal election (which must be held by May 2025).
Yes, I forgot about Albanese, that weak, cowadly PM. It seems like those with the name, Albanese, like Francesca, love Hamas and are pro-Palestinian. I hope the people of Australia are fed up enough to get rid of him and his ilk.
Another excellent op ed thank you! I would like to share with the readers a direct quote from a letter published by The Wall Street Journal.
“The hypocrisy and irony of applying the theory of settler colonialism to the existence of Israel is beyond belief. The creation of the state of Israel is actually the goal of this theory: to reclaim the land by the indigenous people displaced in past colonial conquests. The indisputable facts of Jewish history in the Levant should make the proponents of this theory rejoice in the return of the Jewish people to the land of Canaan. Either there is a statute of limitations within this theory, or its application to Israel is purely an expression of antisemitism. The complicated history around and since Israel’s creation is open to nuanced arguments on both sides of the conflict, but the false idea that Israel is an example of settler colonialism serves no positive purpose. “
This was inevitable. With Muslim Canadians outnumbering Jewish Canadians by at least 20 to one, we Jews were bound to end up with the short end of the stick. Pierre Poilievre, Trudeau's Conservative opponent, came out pro-Israel and protective of Canadian Jews for a while. Let's see how long his support lasts.
This came as an email from Anthony Housefather, the Liberal MP in my Montreal district. I never liked this guy and the party doesn't value him much. But he is trying, for all the good it will do. We need a Jewish Defense League NOW. And the means to arm ourselves in a country that bans hand guns.
"Last night Parliamentary colleagues from around the world had gathered in Montreal for a NATO summit. A group gathered to demonstrate and crossed every line including smashing windows and burning a car. As part of the activities, anti-Israel and antisemitic slogans were chanted and an effigy of the Israeli Prime Minister burned. Three people have so far been arrested but this is insufficient. I have consistently tried to impress that this type of policing is insufficient on the Montreal Mayor, the agglomeration council and police.
So I want to tell you what I have done and what I recommend those of you who are Montrealers should do.
First, I immediately issued the following statement:
“Tonight in Montreal it appears protests have veered into lawlessness. I have consistently asked Mayors to advise police that criminal & municipal bylaws need to be applied. Tolerating behaviour like this to avoid escalation emboldens those breaking the law and scares others."
Then, I reached out to the Montreal Mayor’s office, local police, and the offices of the Prime Minister and relevant Ministers alerting them to the situation and asking for statements. Strong statements condemning the activities and advising the RCMP are in communication with local police and rioters needed to be held accountable were made by the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Public Safety. You can find these all on their X pages.
I will be joining others at a meeting with local police next week and I will be raising the permissive nature of the policing with them again directly. I will also be following up again with Mayor Plante’s office.
I have also asked the Mayor of Public Safety to convene the Provincial Ministers of Public Safety to discuss the hate on our streets and find a way where the provincial and federal governments could help the municipalities deal with the issue of the hateful demonstrations. I will be pushing for that over the coming week.
For those of you who are Montrealers, I suggest you reach out to Mayor Plante and to your own local Mayor and Councillor. I suggest you say that you want police to enforce the laws and not simply keep the peace. And I suggest you ask local Mayors to raise the issue at the next agglomeration meeting question period (there is a Mayor Question Period) and if you are willing to go to the Montreal City hall raise this issue in citizen question period at the next Montreal Agglomeration meeting, please do so."
Trudeau spoke up against the violence "finally". Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre blasted Trudeau for not having rioters arrested. Over 90% of about 10,000 Toronto Sun readers think Trudeau is an embarrassment to Canada and should resign immediately.
For the hate filled demonstrator shouting "Final solution" whose family owned the 2nd cup franchise in Montreal at the Jewish General Hospital, their final cup!
Ah Canada. Here in Australia we have the same problems. I won’t go into it all as they really reflect the Canadian experience. Suffice to say that the Australian Jewish community feels abandoned by the openly pro Palestinian lefty government who cannot condemn anti semitism without conflating it with non existent Islamophobia. There is a total absence of leadership . With any luck they will be gone after the 2025 election .
Hi Debbie - I'm a Melburnian - what a shameful place to reside in under this Andrews-Allen state government with pro-palestinian rabble even preventing our Myer traditional Christmas windows opening and No Police presence at the start of the day despite three days warning that this protest, with its vile pro-gaza loud speaker chants, was aimed at SMALL CHILDREN with their families. Cowardly companies and our ABC national broadcaster are caving under anti-semitic pressure, Woke brain-washed "anti-colonial = anti-Israel" generations are now controlling our government media, our State of Victoria and our police force inactions. We have to wait until 2006 for our next state election.
In this week’s “The Line” podcast, the hosts (Gurney and Gerson) mock Trudeau’s hypocrisy about “obeying international law” when it comes to the ICC ruling yet accurately point out Canada’s abject failure to abide by its NATO (financial) obligations. They posit that this will not end well for Canada once Trump takes office. Thank you, Truedope!
"anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism" and "Palestinian and Muslim identities"
And now a word from our alternate sponsor: "genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" Article II; Geneva Genocide Convention.
Question: how much are "Palestinians" a distinct group under the Genocide Convention and how much are they Judean-Samarian or Gazan Arabs?
To begin with the easiest categories to examine first, are they a race? The Cambridge Dictionary defines the term as
A: one of the main groups to which people are often considered to belong, based on physical characteristics that they are perceived to share such as skin colour, eye shape, etc.;
B. the idea that people can be divided into different groups based on physical characteristics that they are perceived to share such as skin colour, eye shape, etc., or the dividing of people in this way
C. a group of people who share the same language, history, characteristics, etc.
According to the above definitions, they do not constitute a distinct race because they resemble in every way Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Furthermore, their language and culture is distinctly Arabic. The matter of their history is interesting. They place their history generally within Arab history. The idea of a unique history will addressed below under National Identity.
Are "Palestinians" a religious group? No. They are Muslim, which means they are followers of Islam. That is their religious affiliation.
Are they a unique ethnicity? Again, No! Their ethnicity is Arab. Theyy describe themselves abeing members of the Ummah, that is, Arabic people.
Are they a national group? They are not now nor have they ever been a nation. In point of fact, the concept of Palestinian nationhood only came into being in 1964.
To sum up, not being a "a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" per the Geneva Convention of which defines protected groups, they are actually, Judean-Smarian and Gazan Arabs fighting tooth and nail to endow themselves with a distinct national identity.
Two other points to keep in mind. If we are going to use words to communicate with each other, at least let us use them accurately.
1. "Phobia" means an excessive and irrational fear.
2. "Miseo" means hatred. It. van be used as a suffix or.a prefix.
3. "Antipathy" means dislike of a thing.
Hence the appropriate term to apply to the dislike of Arabs would be Arabo-antipathy' to dislike of Islam would be Islamo-antipathy; to dislike of the followers of Islam would be Muslo-antipathy. All of them are awkward. Far better to say Antipathy to [fill in the blank].
If anything, what is commonly referred to by Muslims, Arabs in general, and so-called Palestinians as Islamophobia is actually an antipathy to these people, proably earned through decades of hostile actions to their host countries.
Secondly, be it noted that Muslims have a religiously derived hatred towards all non-Believers, whom they call Kufrs. Many of the threats to democracy non-Muslim countries are facing on the streets, on campuses, and too often in the Halls of Power, and notably in the media would go a long way to being eliminated if anti-Kufrmesia laws were put into place to protect social cohesion through civil discourse.
Just a thought. Don't think we should hold our breath that it will be entertained for a second by opinion makers, social influencers, or legislators.
Oh Canada (or Oy Canada). The delightful (an' hilarous) Gad Saad recent left his longtime appointment at Concordia U due ta joo hate... he's now at some little college in yenimsville (the UP of Mishygun) where he's appreciated... an' SAFE.
IF only the "schates" were safe haven but they only are "safer"...fer now-- We left NYSeized ourselfs fer many reasons but ONE was it's notta safe place fer us joos any more (we lived right next ta Williamsburg, ground zero of anti-semitic hate crimes) an' my alma mater (once jokin'ly called NYJew) is now awash with keffiyehs.
Canada was once such a home fer jooish intellectuals--my favorite Professor Ruth Wisse! one'a my favorite poets-turned-zingers Leonard Cohen (both at McGill as was -- later --William Shatner!--a talent if not quite the intellectual!). Lorne Greene! Monty Hall! Daniel Levy... Wha'happened? Montreal used ta have great jooish delis. Will Canada become a caliphate?
ps Turd-O knows EXACTLY what he's sayin' & doin'--that's the WEF speakin' thru his mean little mouth... my younger daughter & I made up a little ditty 'bout Mister Doity...
As always, muslims and "palestinians" turn their supremacist violent aggression into a narrative of their own victimhood in the knowledge that gullible, self-hating western leftist governments and media will go along with the gaslighting. No normal everyday citizen of Canada or in the west at large are fooled by this. I hope Canadians kick that punk Trudeau out.
Unfortunately Australia is a carbon copy... The Jewish and philosemitic community here is going through the same cognitive dissonance about the threat coming from the left instead of the traditional side. I would estimate the threat level:
90% anti-zio leftist ideology
9% recent ME immigrant communities flexing their political numbers
Yes Frederick, Australia's current federal & state governments have done a spectacularly shameful U-turn regarding Israel.
In 1983 our then Prime Minister R J Hawke was Israel's greatest admirer and ally and public supporter on the international stage. Bob Hawke once remarked that if he could be reincarnated he would choose to return as a Jew. He must be turning in his grave at the appalling deterioration of tolerance in his once admired nation.
Our multi-cultural policy is failing aided & abetted by PM Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, with the support of Victoria's Premier Jacinta Allen who is suffering from a noticeable case of ostrichism.
'Divide and Rule' has been played since Roman times here in Europe so that the Political Elites can ride herd on us all. Anti-Jewish sentiment is played off against Islamophobia, and vice-versa. Anti-Semitism in the Liberal Elite has always been the Useful Idiot of State Fascism in the police forces and the Secret Services. So, Try to see to the end of the Play in all of this: The money to be made in isolating and intimidating each community, as we are swept up into the grip of the security services and into the pre-Fascist dawn of corruption and Expulsion that follows. The correct response is Solidarity across and between all communities threatened by this: No Pasaran!
I agree with you totally! Canada was once a beautiful Country. Now it is a monstrosity! They have created a war from nothing. Trudeau is a coward and has lost his mind! How dreadful it must be to be Jewish and living in Canada. I do believe that when the new government replaces him, as they surely will, things will change. However that is no comfort to you in the meantime. The world has taken leave of its senses. You will get through it though!
Thank you for your supportive words and solidarity.
Trudeau and his coalition are prime exhibits of the anti Semitic woke agenda in full display
Montreal has become the bombshell centre of these hate filled violent protests with the police maintaining a pacific presence from all evidence. Mayor Plante is shamefully absent only able to meekly condemn the actions of the rioters. No action will only embolden rioters to further escalate the violence.
As for Justin Trudeau, you are correct. He dances as Montreal burns.
This will not end well.
A sad, but true commentary, and not unlike the US, France, and England who appease their Muslim groups because of their cowardice and lack of backbone. I can almost accept the inherent antisemitism in communities who have now been given permission to come out of their holes and scream to the world of their hate for Jews. What is difficult for me to swallow are the so-called leaders of Western countries who show blatant disregard for Israel and Jews. The only recourse will be for these gangs of elitist know nothings to be voted out of office, or have their terrorist supporting Muslims turn on them. Either way would be fine with me. Keep the faith Stephen, change is coming.
I assume Trudeau is pandering to the Muslims as there’s now noticeably more of them than Jews.
It’s a lot worse in Europe where there are even more Muslims.
No more Muslims please. I don’t want to end up like Europe.
I agree, but Europe got what they deserved, open borders for all. When is Trudeau's term completed? Let's hope he is voted out of office. Spoiled, elitist wimp.
That anology of Trudeau is spot on. The absolute worst PM in Canadian history,
Europeans (nor AusCanNZUK-ians) don't "deserve" this since we didn't make it happen! It was brought upon us by technocratic oligarchy demanding open borders and cheap labour paired with leftist multicultural cultism. We never consented to any of the demographic changes that were forced on us.
But you voted for left wing govts. All those countries are democracies.
Brain-washed Woke generations are now influencing "democratic" elections. Australia has a (compulsory voting) preferential system so the Marxist pro-palestine openly anti-Israel "greens" have undue influence in Australia's election outcomes esp. amongst the younger generations, and the majority vote does not always win under this system.
Good point.
I didn’t vote for him.
I believe there’s an election next year. He’s polling badly and has lost 2 by elections in supposedly safe seats.
Exactly! Let's take the right actions while we still can. Oy!
Australia's left-wing socialist PM and several of his ministers are openly supporting pro-palestinian anti-semitism to appease their muslim constituents. Clear-thinkers are hoping the people will replace these bigots at the federal election (which must be held by May 2025).
Yes, I forgot about Albanese, that weak, cowadly PM. It seems like those with the name, Albanese, like Francesca, love Hamas and are pro-Palestinian. I hope the people of Australia are fed up enough to get rid of him and his ilk.
Another excellent op ed thank you! I would like to share with the readers a direct quote from a letter published by The Wall Street Journal.
“The hypocrisy and irony of applying the theory of settler colonialism to the existence of Israel is beyond belief. The creation of the state of Israel is actually the goal of this theory: to reclaim the land by the indigenous people displaced in past colonial conquests. The indisputable facts of Jewish history in the Levant should make the proponents of this theory rejoice in the return of the Jewish people to the land of Canaan. Either there is a statute of limitations within this theory, or its application to Israel is purely an expression of antisemitism. The complicated history around and since Israel’s creation is open to nuanced arguments on both sides of the conflict, but the false idea that Israel is an example of settler colonialism serves no positive purpose. “
These obsessed anti-Israel bigots will twist anything historical to suit their hate-filled ideology.
This was inevitable. With Muslim Canadians outnumbering Jewish Canadians by at least 20 to one, we Jews were bound to end up with the short end of the stick. Pierre Poilievre, Trudeau's Conservative opponent, came out pro-Israel and protective of Canadian Jews for a while. Let's see how long his support lasts.
This came as an email from Anthony Housefather, the Liberal MP in my Montreal district. I never liked this guy and the party doesn't value him much. But he is trying, for all the good it will do. We need a Jewish Defense League NOW. And the means to arm ourselves in a country that bans hand guns.
"Last night Parliamentary colleagues from around the world had gathered in Montreal for a NATO summit. A group gathered to demonstrate and crossed every line including smashing windows and burning a car. As part of the activities, anti-Israel and antisemitic slogans were chanted and an effigy of the Israeli Prime Minister burned. Three people have so far been arrested but this is insufficient. I have consistently tried to impress that this type of policing is insufficient on the Montreal Mayor, the agglomeration council and police.
So I want to tell you what I have done and what I recommend those of you who are Montrealers should do.
First, I immediately issued the following statement:
“Tonight in Montreal it appears protests have veered into lawlessness. I have consistently asked Mayors to advise police that criminal & municipal bylaws need to be applied. Tolerating behaviour like this to avoid escalation emboldens those breaking the law and scares others."
Then, I reached out to the Montreal Mayor’s office, local police, and the offices of the Prime Minister and relevant Ministers alerting them to the situation and asking for statements. Strong statements condemning the activities and advising the RCMP are in communication with local police and rioters needed to be held accountable were made by the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Public Safety. You can find these all on their X pages.
I will be joining others at a meeting with local police next week and I will be raising the permissive nature of the policing with them again directly. I will also be following up again with Mayor Plante’s office.
I have also asked the Mayor of Public Safety to convene the Provincial Ministers of Public Safety to discuss the hate on our streets and find a way where the provincial and federal governments could help the municipalities deal with the issue of the hateful demonstrations. I will be pushing for that over the coming week.
For those of you who are Montrealers, I suggest you reach out to Mayor Plante and to your own local Mayor and Councillor. I suggest you say that you want police to enforce the laws and not simply keep the peace. And I suggest you ask local Mayors to raise the issue at the next agglomeration meeting question period (there is a Mayor Question Period) and if you are willing to go to the Montreal City hall raise this issue in citizen question period at the next Montreal Agglomeration meeting, please do so."
Trudeau spoke up against the violence "finally". Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre blasted Trudeau for not having rioters arrested. Over 90% of about 10,000 Toronto Sun readers think Trudeau is an embarrassment to Canada and should resign immediately.
For the hate filled demonstrator shouting "Final solution" whose family owned the 2nd cup franchise in Montreal at the Jewish General Hospital, their final cup!
Behavior like this must come at a price.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCu4OuDSoVw/?igsh=aDRsYXV1OTZ3enow
I vote for Second Cup to run our country.
Ah Canada. Here in Australia we have the same problems. I won’t go into it all as they really reflect the Canadian experience. Suffice to say that the Australian Jewish community feels abandoned by the openly pro Palestinian lefty government who cannot condemn anti semitism without conflating it with non existent Islamophobia. There is a total absence of leadership . With any luck they will be gone after the 2025 election .
Hi Debbie - I'm a Melburnian - what a shameful place to reside in under this Andrews-Allen state government with pro-palestinian rabble even preventing our Myer traditional Christmas windows opening and No Police presence at the start of the day despite three days warning that this protest, with its vile pro-gaza loud speaker chants, was aimed at SMALL CHILDREN with their families. Cowardly companies and our ABC national broadcaster are caving under anti-semitic pressure, Woke brain-washed "anti-colonial = anti-Israel" generations are now controlling our government media, our State of Victoria and our police force inactions. We have to wait until 2006 for our next state election.
Yes……
In this week’s “The Line” podcast, the hosts (Gurney and Gerson) mock Trudeau’s hypocrisy about “obeying international law” when it comes to the ICC ruling yet accurately point out Canada’s abject failure to abide by its NATO (financial) obligations. They posit that this will not end well for Canada once Trump takes office. Thank you, Truedope!
"anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism" and "Palestinian and Muslim identities"
And now a word from our alternate sponsor: "genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" Article II; Geneva Genocide Convention.
Question: how much are "Palestinians" a distinct group under the Genocide Convention and how much are they Judean-Samarian or Gazan Arabs?
To begin with the easiest categories to examine first, are they a race? The Cambridge Dictionary defines the term as
A: one of the main groups to which people are often considered to belong, based on physical characteristics that they are perceived to share such as skin colour, eye shape, etc.;
B. the idea that people can be divided into different groups based on physical characteristics that they are perceived to share such as skin colour, eye shape, etc., or the dividing of people in this way
C. a group of people who share the same language, history, characteristics, etc.
According to the above definitions, they do not constitute a distinct race because they resemble in every way Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Furthermore, their language and culture is distinctly Arabic. The matter of their history is interesting. They place their history generally within Arab history. The idea of a unique history will addressed below under National Identity.
Are "Palestinians" a religious group? No. They are Muslim, which means they are followers of Islam. That is their religious affiliation.
Are they a unique ethnicity? Again, No! Their ethnicity is Arab. Theyy describe themselves abeing members of the Ummah, that is, Arabic people.
Are they a national group? They are not now nor have they ever been a nation. In point of fact, the concept of Palestinian nationhood only came into being in 1964.
To sum up, not being a "a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" per the Geneva Convention of which defines protected groups, they are actually, Judean-Smarian and Gazan Arabs fighting tooth and nail to endow themselves with a distinct national identity.
Two other points to keep in mind. If we are going to use words to communicate with each other, at least let us use them accurately.
1. "Phobia" means an excessive and irrational fear.
2. "Miseo" means hatred. It. van be used as a suffix or.a prefix.
3. "Antipathy" means dislike of a thing.
Hence the appropriate term to apply to the dislike of Arabs would be Arabo-antipathy' to dislike of Islam would be Islamo-antipathy; to dislike of the followers of Islam would be Muslo-antipathy. All of them are awkward. Far better to say Antipathy to [fill in the blank].
If anything, what is commonly referred to by Muslims, Arabs in general, and so-called Palestinians as Islamophobia is actually an antipathy to these people, proably earned through decades of hostile actions to their host countries.
Secondly, be it noted that Muslims have a religiously derived hatred towards all non-Believers, whom they call Kufrs. Many of the threats to democracy non-Muslim countries are facing on the streets, on campuses, and too often in the Halls of Power, and notably in the media would go a long way to being eliminated if anti-Kufrmesia laws were put into place to protect social cohesion through civil discourse.
Just a thought. Don't think we should hold our breath that it will be entertained for a second by opinion makers, social influencers, or legislators.
I am sorry. I cannot even read it. So sick of this constant hyperbolic lying of Islamophobic “fear.” Losing my cool.
Oh Canada (or Oy Canada). The delightful (an' hilarous) Gad Saad recent left his longtime appointment at Concordia U due ta joo hate... he's now at some little college in yenimsville (the UP of Mishygun) where he's appreciated... an' SAFE.
IF only the "schates" were safe haven but they only are "safer"...fer now-- We left NYSeized ourselfs fer many reasons but ONE was it's notta safe place fer us joos any more (we lived right next ta Williamsburg, ground zero of anti-semitic hate crimes) an' my alma mater (once jokin'ly called NYJew) is now awash with keffiyehs.
Canada was once such a home fer jooish intellectuals--my favorite Professor Ruth Wisse! one'a my favorite poets-turned-zingers Leonard Cohen (both at McGill as was -- later --William Shatner!--a talent if not quite the intellectual!). Lorne Greene! Monty Hall! Daniel Levy... Wha'happened? Montreal used ta have great jooish delis. Will Canada become a caliphate?
ps Turd-O knows EXACTLY what he's sayin' & doin'--that's the WEF speakin' thru his mean little mouth... my younger daughter & I made up a little ditty 'bout Mister Doity...
https://thcsofdaisymoses.substack.com/p/resign-you-ratfink-resign-turd-o?
As always, muslims and "palestinians" turn their supremacist violent aggression into a narrative of their own victimhood in the knowledge that gullible, self-hating western leftist governments and media will go along with the gaslighting. No normal everyday citizen of Canada or in the west at large are fooled by this. I hope Canadians kick that punk Trudeau out.
Unfortunately Australia is a carbon copy... The Jewish and philosemitic community here is going through the same cognitive dissonance about the threat coming from the left instead of the traditional side. I would estimate the threat level:
90% anti-zio leftist ideology
9% recent ME immigrant communities flexing their political numbers
1% RWNJobbery
Yes Frederick, Australia's current federal & state governments have done a spectacularly shameful U-turn regarding Israel.
In 1983 our then Prime Minister R J Hawke was Israel's greatest admirer and ally and public supporter on the international stage. Bob Hawke once remarked that if he could be reincarnated he would choose to return as a Jew. He must be turning in his grave at the appalling deterioration of tolerance in his once admired nation.
Our multi-cultural policy is failing aided & abetted by PM Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, with the support of Victoria's Premier Jacinta Allen who is suffering from a noticeable case of ostrichism.
'Divide and Rule' has been played since Roman times here in Europe so that the Political Elites can ride herd on us all. Anti-Jewish sentiment is played off against Islamophobia, and vice-versa. Anti-Semitism in the Liberal Elite has always been the Useful Idiot of State Fascism in the police forces and the Secret Services. So, Try to see to the end of the Play in all of this: The money to be made in isolating and intimidating each community, as we are swept up into the grip of the security services and into the pre-Fascist dawn of corruption and Expulsion that follows. The correct response is Solidarity across and between all communities threatened by this: No Pasaran!