If Melbourne is, as suggested in the media, the ‘Antisemitic Capital of the West’, it reinforces the need for the government to respond urgently to the Segal Plan to Combat Antisemitism.

The plan is correct in identifying the current acceleration of antisemitism as a reaction to the cruel mutilation and murder of even innocent babies by Hamas terrorists in Israel on 7 October 2023 and the war it triggered.

However, we must never forget that the underlying level of antisemitism over the last three or four decades is the direct result of politicians negligently or callously ignoring a clear constitutional mandate.

This is that the immigration power must be exercised for the ‘peace, order and good government’ of the Commonwealth.

The most serious breach of this was when the Albanese government did what not one single Arab government dared to do – to bring into our country Gazans who would unquestionably have to have been on extremely good terms with the Hamas terrorists to obtain permission to leave.

There was no way, no way at all, whereby the Albanese government could have ensured that the 3,000 were not antisemites, or worse, terrorists.

It is important to stress that not one Arab or Muslim government would risk doing what the Albanese government did.

As Jordan’s King Abdullah II repeatedly says after that nation’s disastrous experience in admitting Palestinians, ‘no refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt’.

The unforgivable gross negligence of the Albanese government contrasts with the common sense of the Trump administration, where, under executive order, visas are not to be granted for applicants from territories where it is impossible to ascertain whether the applicants would constitute a danger to the US and could even be terrorists.

With the 2025 election putting Labor  under the control of the left faction, this will increasingly involve the governing party seeking new victims to represent and finding new alliances to make.

Already, the Western left, in defiance of common sense, now say that they are unable to define a woman. Curiously,  they simultaneously form alliances with radical Islamists who have a very different view on women.

The left should remember that when President Jimmy Carter foolishly pulled the rug from under the West’s great Middle Eastern ally, the Shah, a coalition of leftists and Islamists seized the government. The Islamists then had no hesitation in turning on, and effectively liquidating, the left.

As for Australia, it is essential to recall that while the British brought their language, the rule of law, administration under constitutional government, and Western civilisation to Australia, they certainly did not bring antisemitism here.

Several First Fleet convicts were Jewish, as was the  Governor’s German-born father, Jacob Phillip. However, a minimal form of antisemitism emerged in the nineteenth century, given impetus by the influential racist and republican journal, the Bulletin.

Within living memory, its front-page banner declared, ‘Australia for the White Man’.

Advanced by the post-war immigration minister Arthur Calwell, antisemitism was finally expunged from public policy when prime minister Robert Menzies warmly welcomed Jewish Australians to the honoured place they deserved through their many contributions to the life of the nation, including the first Australian-born governor-general,  Sir Isaac Isaacs and the first world war soldier whom Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery declared ‘the best general on the Western Front in Europe’, Sir John Monash.

As to antisemitism in modern Australia, I saw no evidence of antisemitism at all in my high school, where there were several Jewish students. But around two decades ago, while driving past Woollahra’s Temple Emmanuel one Friday evening, I noticed something I had never seen outside a place of worship – security guards. I saw this again outside  Sydney’s Great Synagogue. Even kindergartens were (and still are) guarded. Around this time, I recall demonstrators throwing stones at St Andrew’s Cathedral, telling the media they thought it was a synagogue.

It was the mismanagement of what was called the ‘Lebanese exception’ for persecuted Christians by the Fraser government that led to an influx of Islamist immigrants who brought with them the ancient hatreds of the Middle East.

Although closed down by the Fraser government, such immigration increased under successive governments.

The growing importance of the Islamic vote, inflated by chain migration and an absence of ministerial diligence, was starkly demonstrated when Immigration Minister Chris Hurford decided to expel the controversial mufti, Sheik Taj el-Din Hilaly. His portfolio was quickly reassigned by Prime Minister Keating, and the expulsion abandoned.

The question arises as to what should be done with politicians so delinquent as to have allowed the  antisemitic plague to spread into this country? There was a time when delinquent politicians were punished by special legislation, bills of attainder, and later by  impeachment trials with serious consequences for the guilty.

Nowadays, they get off scot-free to enjoy their various emoluments  even where courts find they have committed misfeasance in public office. This delinquency can only be stopped by making politicians truly accountable 24/7 and not just in confected elections every few years.

Absent investing the people with the institutions of direct democracy, as in Switzerland, accountability can be achieved if voters elect a Senate willing to do this.

Hence my suggestion that concerned citizens in the last election give their first Senate preference to One Nation, then to other compatible small parties, before going on to their preferred major party.

Returning to  the violent demonstration on 9 October 2023 at Sydney’s Opera House, videos of which went round the world, the police were obviously under instructions not to enforce the law.

The distraction for abandoning their fundamental duty to enforce the law was to engage in a long and infantile exercise claiming that the vile chant everyone heard, ‘Gas the Jews!’ was the improbable and ungrammatical question nobody heard, ‘Where’s the Jews?’

Even now governments refuse to enforce the law, which recently compelled the Executive Council of Australian Jewry to take a successful private action against Islamic preacher, Wissam Haddad.

Governments which refuse to do their duty should resign.

It is the duty of all politicians to ensure this.