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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/15/bondi-beach-terrorism-anti-semitism-australia/
Democracies Must Be Much Tougher on Those Who Normalize Islamist Supremacism and Hatred towards Jews
(Telegraph-UK) Alexander Downer - The murderous attacks on Jewish men, women and children on sunlit Bondi Beach show us that antisemitism is not simply another form of racism. It is a national security threat. The increasing confidence with which people feel able to attack Israelis and Jews in Australia, Britain, and across the West makes it easier for them to be physically attacked. Few, if any, Jewish gatherings can now take place without security: who else in our societies faces this? The risk may become that the West's tiny Jewish populations are driven out from the countries they have helped to create. Australia without Jews is not Australia. As the U.S. commentator Park MacDougald has said, it's not just about people disliking Jews in the way they might dislike, say, Mexicans. Antisemitism is a conspiracy theory about how the world works. There is this secret, invisible system of Jewish power that rules the world through the banking system, the media and the Israel lobby. The aim is to undermine the cohesion of the West: to push the argument that Western power serves the interests of Israel, the Zionists and the Jews rather than the interests of ordinary citizens. You do not have to defeat the West in open confrontation if you can divide it and leave it in a state of self-doubt. If Australia, Britain, Germany and others are to survive as multi-racial, multi-faith democracies, they must be much tougher on the forces that lead to and normalize Islamist supremacism and hatred towards Jews. The writer, chairman of the UK's Policy Exchange think tank, is a former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia.