Awakening to news on my X feed of 40 babies being beheaded by Hamas animals at a kibbutz in southern Israel was beyond shocking.

It deepens my sense of shame as an Australian that supporters of this were allowed to chant ‘gas the Jews, f**k the Jews’ on the steps of the Opera House on Monday night.

Forty babies. Beheaded. Allahu Akbar.

That Channel Nine would run a puff piece with one of the organisers of the Town Hall and Opera House rallies was just insane.

A Victorian MP, Moira Deeming, remains unjustly suspended from the parliamentary Liberal Party after being falsely accused of being a Nazi sympathiser.

Yet those individuals who stood on the steps of the Sydney Opera House and called for an actual Holocaust in 2023 by killing Jews ‘from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea’ got a free run on mainstream media.

What has become of Australia?

The NSW Labor government’s hapless Minister for Police Yasmin Catley allowed the Hamas supporters to march to the Opera House, burn the Israeli flag, let off flares, and chant murderous slogans while telling Jews to stay at home because the streets of Sydney were not safe for them.

Will hate speech laws be invoked? I doubt it. Yet people like me are being dragged through years of litigation under the same laws for saying LGBTQ+ ‘drag queens are dangerous role models for children’, which, in my opinion, they are. That is if we are still entitled to have opinions.

In the world of modern Woke, the notions of justice and truth are dangerously inverted.

At his media conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was more worried about ‘Islamophobia’ breaking out than Australian Muslims calling for a 21st Century Holocaust.

Well, Prime Minister, I don’t know about you but I’m scared of fundamentalist Islamic terror when it calls for the murder of Jews in front of Australian landmarks.

Our Jewish population is also scared, telling their kids not to wear their school uniforms. Are they just irrational Islamophobes?

Former Prime Minister John Howard rightly told Labor and Anthony Albanese to stop pussyfooting around terrorism.

‘To have people chanting those things [‘gas the Jews, f**k the Jews’], it is a catastrophic descent from civility that I never thought I’d see.’

Me too, Mr Howard.

The Palestinians have been offered land for peace a million times during my lifetime and each time they reject it because their true aim is killing Jews.

Israel must protect its citizens in circumstances like this and have every right to do so.

The old saying ‘if the Palestinians laid down their guns there would be peace but if the Israelis laid down theirs there would be no Israel’ has never been more true.

‘Once again Hamas is framed as a terrorist organisation,’ said one guest during a Channel Nine interview.

Poor Hamas, victims of a vast right-wing conspiracy.

Ignore the rapes, baby killing, and mutilation of bodies while indiscriminately murdering and kidnapping.

Any Western Sydney Muslim leader worth their salt would immediately repudiate this image of Hamas and reassure Australians that Islam rejects terrorism and is a religion of peace.

Instead one sheikh who recently prayed at an event attended by Albanese and worked as the Director of Public Relations at the Australian National Imams Council for three years expressed ‘happiness’.

‘I’m smiling and I’m happy,’ he said.

‘I’m elated, it’s a day of courage, it’s a day of happiness, it’s a day of pride, it’s a day of victory. This is the day we’ve been waiting for.

‘75 years of occupation and 15 years of blockade, what yesterday happened was the first time our brothers and sisters break through the largest prison on earth.

‘This brings pride to the heart, this brings joy to the heart, my brothers and my sisters … you and I, standing in Australia we support our brothers and sisters in Palestine.’

In the jubilation it is forgotten that the ‘blockade’ only exists because Hamas terrorists within the region only want one thing – the death of all the Jews from the river to the sea.

I want to believe the majority of Muslim Australians are here because they love our nation, are part of Australia, and are truly people of peace.

But I wonder why the so many of these official organisations and spiritual leaders, who are meant to be setting an example, remain silent in the wake of the disturbing scenes we saw in the centre of Sydney and Melbourne.

Has Australia’s welcoming spirit been abused?

To NSW Premier Chris Minns’ credit he has apologised to the Jewish community for Monday night’s debacle.

But Australia’s night of shame must not be allowed to stand.

Please Mr Albanese and Mr Minns, don’t let the Australian Hamas supporters win.

Re-light the Opera House in the colours of the Jewish state’s flag but this time for a month.

Lead a vigil there. We will come.

Civil society will support you.

Lyle Shelton is National Director of the Family First Party.

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