Brian Ross wrote Yesterday at 9:03am:
We have many in government and adjacent who still are unable to talk about extremism in the face of the biggest threat to our country. That is not my opinion, it’s ASIO’s. Rather than having the heat turned down, it feels as if, in the absence of honest conversations about the clear and present danger facing us, we’re still simmering.
Last week a man was charged with a hate crime after ramming his car into the gates of Brisbane’s largest synagogue. There is scant more detail in the public arena, but that alone is chilling and reminiscent of other places where such crimes are common.
Last weekend a Jewish teenager at a scouts camp in Victoria was assaulted in what police are investigating as an alleged antisemitic attack. He reportedly was wearing his kippa.
Perhaps the most extraordinary story came this week following an investigation by the ABC, which claims to have discovered footage it described as “horrific” of gay and bisexual teenagers lured via dating apps to meet up at locations in Sydney, only to be abused and brutally assaulted by supporters of Islamic State. I watched it and felt sick. “You want to be gay?” voices shout. You hear a young man pleading for them to stop.
When this was originally reported, the attackers’ ideology and background weren’t mentioned. Why not?
The ABC is now reporting that the attackers were part of the same network as the Bondi shooters and that it had been going on for two years. It muses about the worrying resurgence of the Islamic State network. Five teens were charged and convicted.
Against the context of Bondi and the two years of attacks against Australian Jews, this report poses more questions than it answers. Where was the media coverage of these crimes before now? Minors can’t be identified but their crimes can be. Why did we not know, and who benefits from keeping it a secret? The last thing Australians need is more secrecy....
Perhaps most important has been the admission by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) that yes, Hamas is weaponising hospitals and using them as military bases.
As a result, MSF has suspended work in parts of Gaza. Its statement was explicit: “MSF teams have reported a pattern of unacceptable acts, including the presence of armed men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients and a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons.” Israel said this from the beginning. It was called a liar. But truth always comes out.
Since October 7, 2023, MSF has not said a word about the hostages, about the victims of rape and brutal murder, about Hamas’s clear violation of humanitarian law. Who else remembers the immediate aftermath of October 7 and footage of hostages being dragged at gunpoint into and out of hospitals in Gaza, right before everyone’s eyes?
British charity Oxfam is being sued by its former chief executive, who is alleging a culture of racism, anti-Israel bias in the NGO’s operations and general antisemitism. Halima Begum said she was pressured to take a different approach to the war in Gaza that included pressure to allege a genocide despite there being no evidence, no legal position and no consultation with specialists in that field.
“Essentially, it was very hard to hold on to neutrality and impartiality, and I say that as a Muslim woman,” she said.
All of this needs saying because none of it is in isolation. In Gaza, Hamas has not disarmed. What hope do Gazans have for a future when Hamas is still in charge?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/australia-is-not-learning-from-bondi...It's not the far right (a.k.a. the 50 black shorts). It is Islam and it's adherents, promoters, agitators, apologists and jihadis. By the million.
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