Scourge of hate
THE merciless massacre of innocent men, women and children on a paradise beach will have the world’s 16million Jews wondering if there is anywhere they can feel safe.
For the past two years, governments have pussy-footed around the scourge of antisemitism and allowed it to fester under our noses.
The spiral of hatred began two years ago with the rape, torture and slaughter of 1,200 Israelis by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 invasion which triggered war in Gaza.
Since then, major cities and university campuses have witnessed almost weekly demos in which keffiyeh-wearing marchers chant “globalise the intifada”, a call for the murder of Jews globally.
These open displays of racism have been tolerated for too long by gutless politicians and woke police chiefs.
In the UK, there were 1,521 incidents of antisemitism — eight a day — in the six months to June this year.
Children are forced to walk past baying mobs on their way to school. Security teams stand on guard so Jews can worship in safety.
But even that didn’t prevent a knife-wielding terrorist launching a murderous attack outside a Manchester synagogue only two months ago.
Yesterday the darkness of anti- semitism struck again as 1,000 people celebrated Hanukkah — the Jewish festival of light — on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
Yet out of that darkness comes a tiny glimmer of hope.
A heroic shopkeeper saved many lives by creeping up behind one of the gunmen, wrestling him to the ground and disarming him.
Ahmed al Ahmed’s first thought wasn’t about the religion of the victims.
His motivation was to help them.
He is a shining light in an increasingly grim world.
It is time for our political and police leaders to follow his example and stand up to the hawkers of hatred.
We must destroy this evil ideology before it destroys us.
The only answer
IT’S taken Labour nearly 18 months to realise what we could have told them before they took office.
Their plan to stop the migrant boats is a dud.
Keir Starmer blew what little chance he had of success on day one by scrapping the only deterrent, the Rwanda deportation scheme.
So it’s no surprise the illegal arrivals are up, with 40,000 crossing the Channel this year.
His flagship “one in, one out” deal with France has led to only 153 being returned, at a cost of £100million.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood pleads for more time and insists there is “no one silver bullet”.
There is, but only the Tories and Reform are prepared to countenance it:
Leaving the flawed and outdated European Convention on Human Rights.
