Labor's Response to AntiSemitism is All Froth, No Beer

PM hopes 'foreign actors' are behind attacks

Two members of the National Cabinet stood outside a firebombed childcare centre in Sydney yesterday, saying all the right things.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attack on the Jewish community was abhorrent.

NSW Premier Chris Minns promised the “bastards” would be caught, as if using a curse word would distract from the fact that he was offering only more words.

And on it went. Full force of the law. Unequivocal condemnation. Antisemitism is a disease. Action not words. The usual guff.

Then the pair had their national cabinet meeting and agreed to do exactly nothing.

Oh, except that Federal Cabinet member Ed Husic warned that Islamophobia was a problem too.

Where would the government’s response to antisemitism be without a dash of false equivalence thrown in as a sop to voters in Western Sydney Labor-held seats?

Labor’s response to antisemitism is all froth and no beer …