Opinion
Back in the heyday of the ISIS “Caliphate”, Australian-born jihadi Khaled Sharrouf proudly posted photos of his seven-year-old son holding up a severed head. The Islamic happy-snaps provoked much horror and disbelief. How could even small children be so driven to violent hate, the chatterers wailed.
Like this.
The sight of young children chanting “intifada’’ (violent resistance or a rising up against oppression) and other anti-Jewish slogans at an encampment of Palestinian supporters at the University of Sydney last week suggests the nation’s oldest university has lost its moral compass, like once-great colleges in the US and elsewhere. In a clip from the despicable event at the University of Sydney, a child leads a march, chanting into a loudspeaker “five, six, seven, eight, Israel is a terrorist state”. Another child calls the Jewish state “haram’’, an Arabic term for “forbidden’’.
The “Palestinian supporters” and their jihaditots are, of course, drawn from Sydney’s vast and prolifically anti-Semitic Muslim community. These are the same people who erupted into spontaneous street parties when news of October 7 broke.
They’re also the same people who encouraged their children to parade in Sydney with signs proclaiming, “Behead those who insult the prophet”.
The protest was organised by anti-Israel Macquarie University academic Randa Abdel-Fattah and “Families for Palestine’’. Last week, Dr Abdel-Fattah told Instagram followers it was a “kids’ excursion … we are bringing some colouring in and bubble wands. All kids are welcome.” Welcome to be brainwashed, more likely.
Abdel-Fattah is also, it might be noted, one of the anti-Semites behind the circulation of the infamous “Jew List”, with the names and addresses of hundreds of Jewish artists.
The vile spectacle will test the leadership, or lack of it, of Anthony Albanese, Education Minister Jason Clare, University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson, vice-chancellor Mark Scott and university senate members. To their shame, Mr Clare, whose Blaxland electorate has a high proportion of Muslims, and the university refused to directly condemn the protest on Sunday.
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Of course not: these hateful loons are the very people whose votes he so desperately needs.
But, where gutless Labor politicians go out of cheap, gutter politics, Their ABC jumps in, feet first, out of pure commitment.
The ABC described as follows: “Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenge and solutions”. This is how the ABC depicted the segment:
Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week. Those attacks coupled with anger and division caused by the war in Gaza as well as the polarising impact of the Voice referendum last year and we are seeing our sense of community and social cohesion challenged. We speak to a panel of experts about the solutions to staying united.
Oddly enough, the ABC failed to mention the stabbing of a Christian bishop by a Muslim fanatic, the weekly anti-Semitic marches in Melbourne and Sydney, or the shocking uptick in attacks on Australian Jews, in both frequency and intensity. The kidnapping plot led by a prominent Muslim activist, spurred by the fact that the victim worked for a Jewish employer, was also glossed over.
In fact, the ABC did its best to ignore Jews altogether. Its panel had less Jewish representation than the Wansee Conference.
Dr Jamal Rifi, Lebanese Muslim Community leader, Sydney. Tim Soutphommasane, Australia’s former race discrimination officer – currently based in Britain. Khairiah Rahman, intercultural communications expert, Auckland University of Technology.
So, two Muslims and a notorious race-huckster. How very, very ABC.
What was missing from the discussion was any detailed analysis of the rise of anti-semitism in Australia since Hamas’ brutal attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023 killing women, men and children. This is the most serious manifestation of anti-Semitism in Australian history.
So, naturally, the ABC hands the mic to Muslim apologists who witter about so-called “Islamophobia”.
But there are no instances of rallies in Australia where the chant of “Where’s the Muslims?” – still less “Kill the Muslims” has been heard. Nor has any group driven vehicles with Israeli flags through suburbs in Sydney or Melbourne where there are large Muslim communities. However, the reverse of all of this has occurred with respect to Jews.
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But, as always, Muslims will reflexively use any atrocity wreaked by their fellow Muslims to try and portray themselves as the real victims. Anything, rather than confront the rampant, violent anti-Semitism in their communities.