Aquarius wrote on Oct 17
th, 2025 at 11:35am:
And who actively discriminates against the Jews? The anti-semitists? Wouldn't be those pious, peace loving mussos would it? And the useful idiots like yourself who support them.
You are just an instigator and not worth the time of day. You really have no idea what's happening out there ... you close your ears and eyes to the truth ...
but there you are ... just whistling in the wind.
Tahli and her husband David weren’t fleeing persecution in any traditional sense. Australia isn’t remotely Nazi Germany.
They loved Australia and thought about staying for good. And yet – and this is the part we need to understand – they felt a compulsion to return to Israel, to a country in the midst of a catastrophic war.
There were many reasons, of course – lifestyle and work opportunities chief among them – but the essence of it all is that her family, somehow, felt safer and stronger here. Let’s be as clear as possible: a quiet but profound shift in the global Jewish consciousness appears to be taking place, one that appears to be reshaping Israel, its diaspora, and which is driven by numerous converging forces that define this moment.
The first is paradoxical. Overall immigration to Israel is actually down since October 7, 2023 – just 21,500 people arrived in the 12 months since September 2024 compared with 32,000 in 2023 and 47,000 in 2022.
Fewer people are coming, but Australians are driving the cohort that is: their numbers are up 23 per cent, according to the Israel Aliyah Centre, and 87 per cent of the emigres are young adults aged between 18 and 34.
These aren’t refugees. They’re millennials and Gen Z professionals making a bet about where they can live as fully expressed Jews in the 21st century.
Americans are doing the same. So are the British, the Canadians, the French. In other words, citizens from countries where government policy or civil discourse has been hostile enough to Israel or the local Jewish community.
“It is impossible to ignore the rise in anti-Semitism in Australia has also left its mark, forcing many to question where they feel most secure and most at home.”...
“A Holocaust could not happen again as long as we have Israel.”
Engel says: “That has continued to mean a lot more to me as we’ve lived here, and as we’ve gone through this October 7 experience. The freedom to just be here and be unapologetically me, and unapologetically us.”
And that’s not running away, but running towards something – a distinction that stands to shape Israel’s next chapter, and the Jewish people’s story, in ways that are only just beginning to become apparent.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/i-left-safety-of-australia-for-land-at-wa...
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