From Nuremberg: I’ve been exploring the city that was home to both the beginning and the end of the most atrocious form of ideological extremism in the 20th Century. Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler conducted his Nazi Party propaganda rallies during the 1930s, became the scene of an American victory parade in 1945 where the huge swastika was blown to smithereens. Later, the city hosted the inevitable retribution of the Nuremberg Trials. The Nazi’s fanatical ideology had no logical end goal other than hatred.

Today, Islamic terrorism is driven by a similar fanaticism but with unconventional means to instil fear. Like Nazism, Islamic terrorism should never be allowed to fester unchecked.

Being in the heart of historical atrocities while Islamic terrorists were killing 15 Australians at home put my emotions into over-drive. It will never make any sense to me and my heart breaks for the families of the victims of Nazis here and the Islamic terrorists at home. Both groups are antisemitic in nature, but Islamic terrorism has not been called out by our Prime Minister. Much like the left’s inability to utter the words ‘Merry Christmas’, they refuse to call the Bondi attack what it is: Islamic terrorism.

Like Chamberlain appeasing Hitler in the 1930s, it is my view that Mr Albanese has been appeasing radical Islam. And like the Nazi disease that was left untreated, Islamic terrorism has gained a foothold in the West.

In addressing the problem, Anthony Albanese went obliquely for gun laws, trying to recreate former Prime Minister John Howard’s policy response following the Port Arthur Massacre. Albanese’s self-serving approach backfired spectacularly because the root problem has once again been ignored. Islamic terrorists won’t be held back by gun laws. These reforms will simply make it harder for farmers, hunters, and sporting shooters to use their tools legitimately.

The failures of our political leaders and our national security services, particularly their failure to act, is nothing short of timidity. This timidity is reflected in Albanese’s deplorable cowardice in not attending the Bondi massacre services. As Andrew Clennell said on Sky News Australia recently, Albanese didn’t attend because he would have probably been booed. And rightly so in my opinion.

From my understanding of the events in Nuremberg, there are some historical parallels between the propaganda aims of Nazism with the ‘useful idiot’ approach used by Islamic extremists. Key is the overwhelming farce that underpins the whole ‘narrative’, a tactic of all propagandists. If you just keep telling your story, eventually it becomes the truth.

The Nazi Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, occurred on the night of November 9, 1938, all over Germany. Some 30,000 Jewish people were forced into concentration camps in what was the first major overt display of antisemitism. The Nazis controlled the action centrally, but decentralised local movements carried out the actions. Islamic terrorists use similar approaches where the central control is not in the spotlight, but decentralised jihadists carry out their fanatical acts of terror.

Kristallnacht was not the beginning, however. To build the Nazi stadium in Nuremberg (near the Zeppelin Field), concentration camp inmates worked in quarries to mine the Nazi’s favourite building material, granite, which they thought would last as long as the Third Reich. Yet there was never enough granite. Like the facades of granite used on the stadium, so much of the Nazi’s propaganda was fakery designed not to build an empire, but to intimidate.

The Nazi Rally Grounds in Nuremberg were never finished. The last Nazi rally was held at the Zeppelin Field in 1938. But the use of space to intimidate is obvious. Much like Tiananmen Square in Beijing, there is nothing like vast areas of open space to make one feel small.

Islamic terrorists do not use physical architecture in the way that the Nazi architect Albert Speer did. Instead, they use an architecture of fear. Australia’s open spaces and big skies are natural wonders to be enjoyed, not man-made spaces designed to instil fear. But by making us fearful of open spaces like Bondi Beach and at Christmas markets, Islamic terrorists make us feel small in our minds.

Like dealing with Nazism, the only way to deal with Islamic terrorism is through aggressive action, not appeasement.

Regrettably, the Islamists have not just instilled fear of terror attacks. They have recruited our political leaders through their propaganda. Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people. There have not been elections since. Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation, yet the Labor government was quick to recognise Palestine as a legitimate state.

Along with refusing to deal with growing antisemitism in Australia, instead we had members from Labor and the Greens marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to support Palestine in a group that waved Islamic terrorist flags and held portraits of a terrorist leader behind them. As our Editor-in-Chief Rowan Dean has stated, ‘It’s a pretty straight line from the Harbour Bridge to Bondi Beach.’

The fear of being gunned or run down in open spaces is one thing. But when you can’t trust your government to protect you from Islamic terrorism, the aim of the terrorists is complete.

The Sydney City Council has cancelled Christmas activities. Vice chancellors can’t bring themselves to say Merry Christmas. (An email I received from one vice chancellor this morning read: ‘Happy and safe holiday period’. How can I be happy if they’ve cancelled Christmas and I don’t trust them to keep me safe?)

But worst of all, Albanese thinks this will all blow over. Well, it won’t.

Albanese’s inaction based on winning votes instead of doing his job is clear for all to see. He has failed to protect Australia and Australia’s Jewish community. He then hasn’t had the ticker to front up. He is not fit to lead.

The victims of the Bondi massacre and their families have been let down by Australia. Our Jewish community has been let down by Australia. This needs to change now. But being here in Nuremberg and learning that Islamic terrorists shot and killed a survivor of the Holocaust at Bondi Beach makes my heart break.

Albanese has failed Australia. He needs to resign now. A survivor of the Holocaust was shot and killed by Islamic terrorists at Bondi Beach in what was clearly an act of antisemitic terror. This Labor government is complicit in the architecture of fear.

So, this won’t blow over, Albanese. Not until this architecture of fear has been blown to smithereens.

Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is the Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. If you would like to support his writing, or read more of Michael, please visit his website.