Another Attack on Jews. Another Caution Against Islamophobia.

Weak politicians are making things worse

Every time Jews are attacked our political class take it as an opportunity to warn against Islamophobia.

As things threaten to spiral out of control, our spineless politicians are rapidly becoming part of the problem.

Take last night in Melbourne, for instance.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian supporters descended on the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield (it’s 41 per cent Jewish) to protest the destruction by fire of a local burger shop.

The shop was owned by a Palestinian Australian who has been prominent in pro-Palestinian protests in Melbourne.

Police investigating the blaze had already said they were “very confident” the fire was not racially or politically motivated.

But pro-Palestinian supporters insisted it was an anti-Palestinian hate crime.

To be fair, if anyone would know a hate crime it would be pro-Palestinian supporters. They sure seem to commit a lot of them. But I digress.

Hundreds of men marched on Caulfield and stood outside a local synagogue chanting for genocide against the Jews.

You’ve heard the chant, and you know how it goes … “From the river to the sea”.

When Jewish families came out of their homes to confront the mob who were calling for their destruction, the scene quickly descended into violence.

Police were barely able to contain the scuffles, despite using pepper spray to try to subdue pro-Palestinian thugs who were throwing rocks.

The rabbis and the congregants gathered for the regular Friday night Shabbat service were sent home by police, for their own safety.

This is now becoming standard operating procedure. Law abiding Jews are told to stay home while aggressive Palestinian supporters are given free reign - whether at the Opera House in Sydney or at Caulfield in Melbourne.

More and more people are starting to wonder what the hell has happened to our country.

But it was the reaction from Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen that most interested me.

Allen tweeted at 9.26pm last night …

“I reaffirm my call for Victorians to show each other love, care and support in these difficult times.

“It is our diversity that makes us great, and our compassion that unites us - there is never any place for antisemitism or Islamophobia in Victoria.”

That’s it?

Seriously, a wet lettuce hits harder. She might as well have tweeted “Thoughts and prayers”.

A mob descending on a Jewish area of Melbourne to incite racial hatred and violence is not a “difficult time”.

Nor is it a time for fatuous moral equivocation.

When Islamists publicly proclaim their hatred of Jews, that’s not Islamophobia Premier Allen. That’s anti-Semitism.

And when hundreds of Muslim men gather outside Jewish homes on a Friday night yelling abuse, that’s not Islamophobia either Premier Allen. It’s anti-Semitism.

Two-siding an obviously one-sided conflict with robotic hollow statements is beneath contempt.

The violent and anti-social behaviour on this issue is coming from only one side while the Jewish community is the community being targeted and the Jewish community is the community living in fear.

I know Jactina Allen is a woman, but even so, show some balls.

As for this old chestnut …

“It’s our diversity that makes us great”

Bullshit.

How about a little less diversity?

These rioting morons should be deported, not protected.

And Danielle Andrews’ love tweets don’t cut it when violent agitators are storming peaceful neighbourhoods.

As for all this talk of love and compassion … wasn’t it just a couple of years ago that the Victorian government had its police force shoot citizens with rubber bullets for daring to protest an experimental vaccine?

Jacinta Allen, and the rest of our political class, need to wake up before someone gets badly hurt.

If only Victoria had something to unite them like, oh, I don’t know, a Commonwealth Games or something?

Australia will soon reach a point of no return if our politicians do not get control of things. We need to deal with Islamist anti-Semitism now, while we still can. I fear the task is hopelessly beyond our political class.

Postscript: Peter Dutton put out the following statement today (Saturday at 12.49pm). It’s good. Jactinta Allen should read and learn. As should the PM, wherever he is in the world right now.

“The behaviour we saw last night in Caulfield by individuals provocatively protesting in an area home to many people of the Jewish faith was absolutely disgusting.

“It was a deliberate act of incitement designed to end in violence. And predictably it did.

“These scenes have no place in our country and should be totally and utterly condemned.

“The Jewish community in Australia is rightly scared for their safety at the moment, and we all have a responsibility to call out vile antisemitism when it rears its ugly head - as it did last night in Caulfield. Enough is enough.”