‘I will f—king find you. Hunt you down. Gas you. Kill you. Teach you a lesson. Your (sic) f—king Jew. I will come after you. I know where you live….’

And that was just the polite stuff. For over three full A4 pages of vile and abusive death threats, the author of this particular expletive-drenched and virulently antisemitic missive spewed out bile and hatred in the most obscene and disgusting fashion aimed at a prominent Sydney Jewish public figure and his wife.

The letter (which was posted from a fake address) is now in the hands of counter-terrorism officers. Sadly, it is not a one-off, nor in all likelihood, simply the ravings of some demented trouble-maker. This hatred or echoes of it can be found amongst two specific segments – one large, the other less so – of our community, but is now only coming to the surface in a terrifying and grotesque fashion.

On the one hand we have large immigrant communities from fundamentalist Muslim nations and on the other we have hard-left ‘anti-Zionists’, mainly the progeny of our Marxist universities.

The bodies were still warm in the kibbutzim and villages of the Negev desert – the butchered bodies of raped and tortured women, mutilated children and decapitated babies along with men, grandparents and soldiers – when members of these two groups of radicalised pro-Palestinians in Australia took to the streets to celebrate this savagery and inhuman barbarism. Yes, celebrate. Fireworks were let off in Greenacre, a preacher could barely contain his euphoria and thousand-strong crowds headed for Sydney’s iconic Opera House to taunt and mock the deaths of these innocent Jews in a faraway land.

Since then, we have had numerous ‘pro-Palestine protests’ – in reality, death-cult festivities – along with the shameful vandalising of posters and other displays reminding the world of the plight of the captive Jewish hostages. (Back in the Seventies, it was common for people to tie a yellow ribbon around local trees to signify concern for the well-being of Western hostages. Today, feral antisemites within our own cities tear down such mementos, to their profound shame).

Put bluntly, this level of hatred is not acceptable under any circumstances. Australians should not have to tolerate this disgusting desecration of our own values, and certainly not by people who we welcomed into our country, or whose parents we welcomed into this country. If Muslim community leaders are not only not prepared to condemn this behaviour, but actively encourage it, then it is time Australians voted in a government that is prepared to do something about it. The Labor party have already repeatedly demonstrated and even admitted that they are electorally beholden to the diktats (and prejudices?) of large Muslim communities. At the same time, the High Court recently restored Australian citizenship to a convicted Islamist terrorist. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of that particular decision (wrong in our opinion), the timing could not have been worse.

A clear and unambiguous message needs to be sent to the Muslim community that Australians do not accept in any form or for whatever reason this primitive, religiously motivated hatred of Jews. The Coalition, who this magazine believes has every chance of winning the next election (so long as they follow James Allan’s superb advice in this week’s issue), needs to start formulating policies that clearly demonstrate we do not accept this vile intolerance. Punishment (and deterrence) measures need to include deportation wherever possible of any and all individuals involved in spreading or articulating this hatred online or in person. It must be made clear that chanting slogans such as ‘from the river to the sea’ is not only an incitement to violence, it is an incitement to genocide. Until such processes are put in place that properly vet incomers from countries with strong antisemitic policies and teachings (which include many if not most Muslim countries), then we should be suspending any further immigration from those places. Being involved in spreading antisemitism should be an immediate and permanent bar to entering this country.

It is an axiom that the majority of Muslims wish to live in peace and want no truck with extremist religious ideology. However, the scale of pro-Palestinian ‘protests’ aka anti-Jew hate-fests here, in the UK and in the USA raises legitimate concerns. The only way to cope with such intolerance in a multiracial and democratic society, without resorting to unacceptable restrictions on free speech, is for political leaders to lay out very clear guidelines as to what is and what is not culturally and legally acceptable. Woke moral equivalency is poison. The Coalition must develop policies that make it clear they will be far tougher than Labor at resisting and preventing Islamic intolerance of others.

So far we have seen, more than once, police in NSW, at the behest of a Labor government, arresting and punishing Jews for supposedly ‘provoking’ civil unrest. That is Labor’s perverse logic at work. In the UK, one politician has told veterans to stay away from Armistice celebrations this weekend so as not to inflame the pro-Palestinian mobs, claiming that ‘free speech’ is what our soldiers fought and died for in two world wars. This is obscene. Our ancestors did not fight and die so that their progeny would kowtow to mob rule.

The Coalition must offer a clear alternative at the next election and give Australians a choice between moral relativism and moral clarity.