One week after the Channukah massacre at Bondi Beach in Australia, which left 15 innocent civilians killed, including a 10 year old girl named Matilda, and Chabad Rabbi, Eli Schlanger, and over 40 people injured, Alan Skorski interviewed Robert Gregory, CEO of the Australian Jewish Association.
There were no punches pulled during the interview as Gregory put the blame squarely on the shoulders of Australian PM, Tony Albanese.
"His apologies and insincere condolences are empty and too late!"
Ever since the Hamas slaughter of over 1200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023, Islamist-inspired violent antisemitism has skyrocketed, while the government turned a blind eye.
It was just under a year ago that we did a show about violent antisemitism in Australia that included:
— A trailer filled with explosives and a list of Jewish targets discovered on Sydney’s outskirts
— Firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue, with one person hurt. Defacement of another with Nazi symbols and pro-Palestine graffiti
— A Jewish childcare center set on fire
— Three Jewish businesses torched
— The former home of a prominent Jewish leader sprayed with graffiti
— Cars defaced and windows smashed in areas where Jews live
During the interview, Skorski and Gregory talked about reports from Sky News Australia giving the history of radical Islamist terrorism taking place in Australia, as the government made it policy to keep appeasing them.
Even before October 7, Australia was seen as a welcoming country to people who came from dangerous countries with very anti-western values:
On December 15, 2014, Man Monis, an Iranian refugee, took hostages at the Lindt chocolate café, killing 2.
On June 5, 2017, Yacqub Khayre, a Somalian refugee, murdered a receptionist and held hostages at the Buckingham International Serviced apartments.
And following October 7, 2023, The government issued visas to 3000 refugees from Gaza, and was welcomed at the airport by Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke.
"For too long," said Gregory, "the government of Tony Albanese ignored the warning signs and ignored the pleas from the Jewish community about the threats they were facing.”
Like in America, under the Biden Administration, the leftist Australian government constantly tried to draw parallels between antisemitism and Islamophobia, even creating a government agency to combat both. To date, there are no examples of anti-Muslim violence having occurred in Australia.
A number of Parliamentarians from the past and present have spoken out forcefully about the dangers of Islamist-inspired violent antisemitism, which was welcomed by the Jewish community. Albanese, on the other hand, has been jeered and made unwelcome by Jewish crowds memorializing the dead.
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