Jacinta Allan Promises to Fight Hate ... After Thinking About it For Three Days

This is what you get when postmodern politics meets moral cowardice

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan - never one to let a real crisis go un-trivialised - has announced a bold new plan to tackle rising antisemitism in Victoria.

She’s launching an “Anti-Hate Taskforce”.

This taskforce - hot on the heels of the last taskforce - will, as the name suggests, tackle “hate”.

And Jactina Allan is very worked up about hate.

She is so worked up about hate it took her three days to visit the scene of Victoria’s most recent hate crime. Let that sink in.

By my count, the Victorian Premier used the word “hate” seven times in two minutes today.

During a brief statement to journalists outside the East Melbourne synagogue, she referred to the fire there as a “hateful incident” and lamented that Jews had undergone a “hateful experience”.

She declared, “Hate needs to stop”.

She announced an “anti-hate taskforce” that would investigate “how we put a stop to this hateful behaviour”.

She said people needed to “recognise that hate has no place in this state”.

And she said she dreamed of a day in which people could “practice their faith free from hate”.

The more she promised to fight “hate” the less inclined I was to take her seriously.

Hate is an emotion fuelled and driven by an ideology. The ideology is anti-Semitism which I think she mentioned once.

The only way to stop the hate shown toward Jews is to dismantle the ideology that fosters it.

But good luck with addressing the insidious ideology of anti-Semitism in a state where cultural and religious sensibilities - expertly cultivated by politicians for base political purposes - prevent honest and frank conversations …