Tim Blair: Not the Sydney we want, but the Sydney we’ve got

The messages in Woollahra, scrawled under cover of darkness by agents of evil, are a physical manifestation of Jew-loathing that’s been seething in Sydney for years, writes Tim Blair.

“This is not the Sydney we want,” Premier Chris Minns said following the latest anti-Jewish hate attack in our city’s east.

But this is the Sydney we’ve got – and for this we can blame a political and social class that indulges all manner of anti-Jewish hatreds and then seems surprised when people act on those hatreds.

The attack last night in Woollahra, in which a car was set on fire and murderous messages towards Israel were spray-painted on homes, is a physical manifestation of Jew-loathing that has been seething in Sydney for years.

It’s a crude and primitive revulsion that unites pro-terror groups in Sydney’s west with social elites in our universities and media.

Message of hate.... This is the reality we’ve got in Woollahra. Picture: Rohan Kelly

Cars were set alight in the latest anti-Semitic act of vandalism in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.. Picture: Supplied

The anti-Jewish language from both groups is largely the same. More than ten years ago, I reported on vicious documents being promoted and sold at Lakemba’s Islamic Bookstore – which is still doing business, by the way, on that suburb’s Haldon St.

“No one can deny the fact that the Jews are the worst kind of barbarian killers the world has ever known!!!” one book, called The History of the Jews, declared.

“The decent great Adolf Hitler of Germany never killed in the manner of the Jews!!! Surely only mad people or those who love killing infants, pregnant women and the infirm will think differently.”

The same title also included an anti-Jewish line from 16th century German theologian Martin Luther that was used in Nazi propaganda: “The sun never did shine on a more bloodthirsty and revengeful people as they.”

Residents gather in Magney Street, Woollahra on Wednesday. Picture: Rohan Kelly

Add further layers of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred – expressed perhaps in the more genteel and mannered style of our indoctrinated university populations – and you get to where we are.

You get to a Sydney that both Premier Minns and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park agree is “not the city that we want”.

As it happens, Park’s justifiably distressed comment was made to the ABC – where anti-Semitism is routinely expressed and excused.

“The ABC is not part of the solution,” Jewish community leader and former ABC director Joe Gersh wrote earlier this year, “because it may well be part of the problem.”

Yes indeed. Despicable messages are launched from Lakemba bookshops, the ABC’s Ultimo headquarters and our universities.

Those messages land in Woollahra, scrawled under cover of darkness by agents of evil.