In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc dissect Australia’s reaction to the Hanukkah massacre and how the West flicks aside antisemitic violence.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Victor Davis Hanson: So, we have this mass murder in Australia, and then you ask yourself, is he an ISIS plant? Did he try to coordinate it online with other violence that day? But that all said, when you put the Australia thing and the Brown [University] thing and the [Rob] Reiner killing all in a 48-hour period, it kind of shocks Americans.

Like, they’ve lost control. We’ve lost control of the American narrative. It’s kind of tragic.

When people in Australia, to take an example, when they comment on Bondi Beach, which we’ll get to in a minute, they usually say two things: “We’re going to have gun control.” They have gun control there. It’s much stricter than California. But ask themselves, why did they allow somebody they knew had ISIS ties to have six guns? Yet, they’ll double down on that.

And then the second thing they’ll always do is they’ll say, “Well, we’re going to look at extremist groups, like white nationalists and maybe, I don’t know, white supremacists.” Or, “We’re going to investigate Islamophobia.” That was the wrong thing to say.

[Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese] should have said, “We have open borders, and we can’t vet people, so we’re going to take a time out until we get our house in order, so we don’t let people in who have a desire to kill us.” I’m so tired of these Western bureaucrats who say, “This is not who we are. We don’t tolerate this.” Well, what are you going to do about that?

And then always gun control or, “Well, we’re going to have a special task force for antisemitism and Islamophobia.” But they never tell us the data, as I said earlier. They know the data.........

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