Bedfellows
Hizb ut-Tahrir and the crowds that have sullied our streets and universities, terrorising members of our community over the past eight months make perfect bedfellows.
The explosive 60 Minutes investigation into Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir’s infiltration of so-called pro-Palestinian organisations has shown Australia the proof of what our community already knew – this ostensibly pro-peace movement is anything but.
As shocking as it is to find out this hate group helped to fan the flames that led a riotous mob to force the evacuation of a Melbourne synagogue on Shabbat, in addition to holding events at the despicable USYD anti-Israel encampment, it is not surprising.
Hizb ut-Tahrir and the crowds that have sullied our streets and universities, terrorising members of our community over the past eight months make perfect bedfellows. Both are against mainstream Australian values, they have little interest in actual peace; they seek the annihilation of a democratic state and the ostracism of those who support that state.
We know because the cries of “from the river to the sea” align with Hizb ut-Tahrir’s goal to see Israel wiped off the map.
We know because both have called for violence against our people, the pro-Palestinian crowd using the code word “Zionists” and Hizb ut-Tahrir not even bothering to hide what they mean and saying “Jews”.
While in a separate incident, the vandals who defaced a library at the University of Melbourne with tributes to Palestinian terrorist group Lions’ Den provide further proof of the violent extremism prevalent in these ranks of hypocrites who claim to be anti-war.
Perhaps, now – eight months after this current nightmare began, more Australians will start to realise the ideology behind this hate and speak out about the damage it is doing to the fabric of our society.
Perhaps now, Australia will ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as the UK has, and as our community pleaded with previous governments to do for years.
Perhaps now, the current government will finally start to take antisemitism seriously as a unique problem and support the judicial enquiry Jewish MP Julian Leeser has proposed.
We suppose we shouldn’t hold our breath, but it’s not too much to ask. Because if a visiting American comedian can so expertly lay bare the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel crowd, it leaves Australia’s leaders looking very inadequate indeed.
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