The time for platitudes is over. What’s needed is zero tolerance of Islamic extremism and anti-Zionism.
How many wake-up calls does anyone need? The cliché that the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre was just that is singularly inappropriate.
Australia and the West have had one wake-up call after another. Since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, Australian synagogues have been firebombed; as elsewhere, anti-Israel marches have regularly chanted for the mass murder of Jews; and on campus, Jewish students and academics have been harassed and intimidated.
The significance of all this has been ignored by Western governments, which have stuck their heads ever more deeply into the sand. But now the attacks have gone into overdrive.