Australia must be purged of its festering anti

It breaks my heart to write this piece. Today, the resurgence of anti-Semitism that has percolated and festered in Australia for the last two years has come to a murderous, horrific climax.

In a balmy early summer evening a few hours ago, Sydney’s Bondi beach was the scene of appalling carnage, At least 11 people are dead, and more than two dozen wounded, including two police officers. One of the gunmen is also now dead.

Fanatics, zealots and political activists who preach or abet Jew hatred must be held to account and punished – not, as they have been, treated by the authorities with kid gloves

‘This attack was designed to target Sydney’s Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah’, said New South Wales state premier, Chris Minns. ‘What should have been a day of peace and joy, celeb