On October 8, 2023, in Times Square in New York City, the pro-Hamas movement renewed its call for the Intifada to be globalized.

Hamas’ massacre of Israelis was still underway. But the “Free, Free Palestine” movement had been ready to capitalize on the horror of October 7th for many years. Their chants of “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” weren’t a byproduct of insensitivity or obliviousness. Theirs was a callous and calculated decision to strike while the iron was hot, while the blood of Am Yisrael—the Jewish People—was still seeping into the ground and the fires in the kibbutzim were still burning.

That was a little over two years ago. Yet here we are again. Even as the victims of the massacre at Bondi Beach are fresh in our collective memory, the antizionists are rallying once more. Activists, students, professors, doctors, former allies, and even tokenized antizionist Jews are following the same playbook: striking while the iron is hot and before our blood has dried.

Antizionism is the “microplastics” of hatred. It’s in everything now. For the antizionist, Jewish tragedy isn’t a tragedy at all—it is a political, moral, and social triumph. Their hate movement feeds off Jewish suffering.

It is a cycle that will never end until we find the courage to name it and expose it.

A Failure of Leadership (and Imagination)

The Australian government is not alone in its failures, but its complicity through years of silence and avoidance has made the world increasingly dangerous not just for Australian Jews, but for our entire People.

After the Holocaust, around 30,000 Jews fled to Australia—as far across the world as they could go—to rebuild a life they had once known, one with at least a chance for safety, for peace, perhaps even for strength. But for years, Australian leaders have acceded to the demands of pro-Islamist extremists and cowered in fear of radical political and social forces they either did not comprehend, or were too naïve or afraid to rein in. This is despite clear and repeated warnings from the Australian Jewish community, and the existence of a readily-available and growing body of scholarship on antizionism that could have saved us if only our leaders had been prepared to listen.

Now, those same Australian Jewish communities are left to pick up the pieces of what they had built, shattered by the same vulnerability they and their ancestors lived and died through in Europe. And the antizionist hate movement continues to capitalize on our suffering.

When confronted, their habitual inversion shields them from meaningful consequences; after all,........

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