Back in 2012, the eminent Holocaust historian Professor Jan Grabowski wrote his groundbreaking work, “The Hunt for the Jews” ( “Der Judenjagd”), which detailed the role of the Polish collaborators in hunting down Jews in the Dobrowa- Tarnowska area of Galicia. As it happens, my father had family there, and one of his relatives is quoted in the book. The Germans weren’t always adept at identifying the Jews but the Poles were and directed the Germans to Jews in hiding or who were otherwise masquerading as Poles.

Such a thing could not possibly happen here, in sunny Sydney, could it? The reality, as we know now, is that it could and it did.

Here’s a memo to Laura Tingle and others of her ill- informed ilk: the massacre on Sunday at Bondi was nothing other than a Judenjagd, a hunt for the Jews. The shooters weren’t there to kill randoms. They were there, blinded by hate and propelled by murderous intent, to kill Jews. To suggest otherwise is to engage in gaslighting and obfuscation. It is to erase the victimhood of Jews and somehow designate it something else, something other, something lesser. Because the Jews in those people’s eyes are indeed other and lesser and undeserving of being victims.

Already, the narrative has shifted........

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