They want a murder party

Sydney is some 14,000km from the current conflict in the Middle East, but in some respects it now feels as though we are right in the middle of it.

That feeling of tension will only escalate following the astonishing, almost unbelievable proposal by Palestinian activists to hold a gathering on October 7.

Planned for central Sydney, this gathering would obviously be a celebration of Hamas’s cowardly and savage attacks on Jewish civilians last year.

Some 1200 souls were raped, tortured and slaughtered during that atrocity. These were acts of historical evil.

Yet we have within our own city those who would mark October 7’s anniversary as a day of triumph.

It goes without saying that any such event should be banned and the people behind it placed on peak-level watch lists.

Additionally, it has become painfully obvious that the federal Labor government has insufficient will to deal with hateful and growing anti-Semitism.

If anything, Labor’s equivocating stance on Israel and those who would destroy her – as repeatedly expressed by Foreign Minister Penny Wong – only elevates an anti-Israel attitude.

As the Coalition’s Sarah Henderson points out, Labor won’t even listen to its own appointed Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism.

Jillian Segal AO’s first recommendation, for a judicial inquiry into campus anti-Semitism, was presented on Tuesday and then rejected by Labor senators.

“Given Labor’s failure of leadership on campus anti-Semitism, the Prime Minister must start listening to his anti-Semitism envoy and major Jewish organisations which strongly support a judicial inquiry,” Senator Henderson said.

“Jewish students should not be forced to choose between their education and their safety.”

Now should any Jewish Australians be forced to choose between their safety and living free and full lives in our country.

Labor at state and federal level has just days to get itself sorted before October 7.

History will be their judge.