His government has appeased Australia's radical Islamists and anti-Israel agitators. Now Jews are paying the price

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Australian Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is not the most astute of politicians. But in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s two-man jihad massacre at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, she made a cutting observation.

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‘’We have a government that sees antisemitism as a problem to be managed, not evil that needs to be eradicated,” Ley said.

In that one sentence, Ley summed up the politics of antisemitism in Australia since Hamas’s barbaric pogrom on October 7, 2023. From its very first, Israel “must exercise restraint” response immediately after Hamas’s murdering, raping and torturing innocent Israelis, the Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been all words and precious little action in confronting the latent antisemitism blackening the soul of the Australian nation.

Since European settlement in 1788, Australian culture carried a strong element of antisemitism. In a largely monocultural society, Jews stood out as different. They were discriminated against and treated as outsiders. As Australia changed in the 1960s and 1970s, becoming more multicultural and socially diverse, overt antisemitism subsided but never eradicated: it merely went underground until October 7 changed everything.

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