The First Test For Our PM's New-Found Determination on Anti-Semitism

Are our authorities serious about cracking down on anti-Semitism in the wake of Friday morning’s terror attack? There’s an easy way to find out.

Arrest those idiots chanting for violence against Jews in Sydney on Sunday.

And if any of those involved are here on visas - deport them before Friday prayers.

Not 48 hours after a Melbourne Synagogue had been firebombed, a mob of men spilled out onto the streets of Canterbury Bankstown chanting incitement against Jews.

Weirdly, the reason they were on the streets in the first place was to celebrate the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad.

Bashar al Assad was a brutal dictator and Middle Eastern men here are pleased to see the back of him.

Whether the Islamists who fill the vacuum will be the lesser of two evils remains to be seen.

I’m not holding out much hope that Syria’s new strongman Abu Mohammed al-Golani - a terrorist formerly associated with ISIS and Al Qaeda - will be an improvement.

The Middle East only ever poses horrible questions with terrifying answers.

But back to our chant-happy friends in Sydney. To celebrate the fall of Assad, they took to the streets chanting slogans against Jews.

What the replacement of Assad with an Islamist has to do with Jews, I’ve no idea.

(Spoiler alert: I have a bit of an idea. More on that in a moment)

The Sydney mob were on the streets - some on horseback believe it or not - chanting …

‘Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!'

They chanted it in Arabic. But that’s the translation.

Were they happy that a brutal dictator was gone so that Syrians could live in peace and prosperity?

Or were they ecstatic that Islamists were now in charge of yet another country bordering Israel from which to launch an attack on Jews?

The message seemed fairly clear did it not?

The chant refers to a battle Muhammad waged against a Jewish community in Saudi Arabia back in 623 - long before the modern State of Israel ever existed.

If you haven’t yet realised that the Arab complaint against the Jews is not that the Jews exist in the land but that the Jews exist at all, you’ve not been listening.

The chant was first invoked by Ahmad Yasin in the 80s. Yasin is the founder of Hamas.

Bali Bomber Ali Amrozi, the Islamist responsible for the slaughter of 88 Australians, shouted ‘Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!’ when he was sentenced to death in 2003.

Yep, even as he was sentenced to death for killing Australians he was threatening … Jews.

Hated of Jews is not a bug in Islam, it’s a feature.

The phrase, chanted on the streets of Sydney Sunday evening, was even the title of a 2009 book published by the ideological founder of Al Qaeda.

Yelling ‘Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!' is illegal in Europe because it is clearly incitement to violence.

The army of Muhammad are not returning for cups of tea, obviously.

So what will Australian authorities do now?

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says the matter is being investigated.

I investigated the matter. It took me ten minutes

Not speaking Arabic, I wandered over to my local barber who is Iraqi and got him to listen to audio of the mob.

“Do you recognise this language? Can you tell me what they’re saying?” I asked.

He and three customers listened. They immediately told me …

“They are terrorists. They should be arrested. That is a chant for killing Jews.”

Karen Webb can thank me later.

They mob were caught on camera chanting their satanic ditty. It’s all over social media. NSW police should be down at Canterbury Bankstown tomorrow picking up thugs and driving them to the intentional airport.

If they’re serious about actually, finally, belatedly doing something about anti-Semitism.

We’ll see.

Of course, I’m way to smart to be holding my breath. Our authorises might make arrests. Or they might be too busy playing tennis. It’s hard to know.