Andrew Bolt: It’s terrifying that Anthony Albanese can’t see he is encouraging barbarians to attack our civilisation

Anthony Albanese is the first Australian Prime Minister to be praised by Hamas and damned by Israel — it’s clear he’s picked the wrong side.

Forget Israel. Forget Palestine. Just see what’s happening on our own streets and you’ll realise Anthony Albanese picked the wrong side.

Indeed, he’s the first Australian Prime Minister to be praised by Hamas and damned by Israel, and it’s terrifying that he still cannot see he’s encouraging barbarians to attack our civilisation.

Compare the sides, and ask which does Australia most harm.

Last Friday, a Melbourne synagogue was firebombed, with people inside. But no Jew or supporter here has firebombed a mosque.

The Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea was destroyed in a firebombing on Friday. Picture: Yumi Rosenbaum

Last Wednesday, a drum-thumping pro-Palestine mob raged outside Sydney’s Great Synagogue, forcing a security lockdown of Jews inside.

Note again the difference: no pro-Israel mob has menaced a mosque.

Last month, cars in Woollahra, a Jewish area, were vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti.

But no cars in any Muslim area have been tagged with anti-Palestine slogans.

On it goes. Week after week, pro-Palestine protesters stage noisy rallies, closing streets, calling for the destruction of Israel “from the river to the sea” and sometimes flying flags of listed terrorist organisations.

In contrast, the few pro-Israel protests have almost all been held off the streets, with no calls for Palestine to be destroyed.

Or compare the preachers. Since Hamas started this war by slaughtering 1200 Jews, various Muslim preachers have declared they were “elated”, called the Jews “pigs and monkeys”, or welcomed the day “when the stones and trees” will say “there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him”.

But no rabbi here has been publicly recorded vilifying and threatening Muslims.

The Jewish community and supporters call for peace and unity following the firebombing attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue. Picture: David Crosling

Everywhere it’s that same telling contrast. How could Albanese not see it?

We’ve had pro-Palestinians disrupt speeches and sporting events, chant “where’s the Jews” outside the Sydney Opera House, occupy university campuses, menace Jewish students, assault Jews with rocks and fists, and trash a federal Jewish MP’s office.

Nothing remotely similar has been done to Muslims here by Jews or their supporters.

This contrast tells us many pro-Palestine activists are the enemy of Western civilisation. Of our civilisation.

They bring threats, intimidation, vandalism and violence, to win by force arguments they cannot win with reason.

That makes this movement not just a threat to Jews but to Australia. These ways are not our ways, and cannot be allowed to become them.

Albanese should have known this instinctively, despite his long history in Labor’s Socialist Left of anti-Israel sloganeering.

He should at least have been able to see now with his own eyes the mayhem and hatred brought by the pro-Palestine protesters.

Anthony Albanese should’ve picked the side of our civilisation. Picture: Sharon Smith

The conclusion should then have been obvious. Albanese should have picked the side of our civilisation. He should have demanded action against hate-preaching imams, against the pro-Palestinian thugs shutting streets and occupying campuses, and against the university academics openly backing Hamas.

He did not do even this minimum. In fact, he did much worse.

Instead of defending Australia’s interests, our prime minister defended Labor’s. He decided to placate Muslim and hard-Left voters who threatened Labor seats.

To be (too) generous to him, he tried for what he called a “balanced position” between Israel and its haters, not realising that “balance” between good and evil always helps the devil.

So it’s proved. Albanese banned former Israel Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked from coming here, and had Australia vote against Israel in the United Nations, insisting it “rapidly” give up what he falsely calls its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian territory” – areas critical to its security.

He’s insisted on moving now to a “two-state solution” – an Israel alongside a Palestinian nation – even though the only groups likely to run Palestine are terrorists and despots.

Meanwhile, he’s demanded Israel cease warring with Hamas, when he should instead demand Hamas first surrender and release the nearly 100 Jewish hostages it still holds.

No wonder that Ghazi Hamad, of the Hamas political bureau, has praised the Albanese government’s posturing as “welcome”, helping toward the “isolation of the fascist Israeli government”.

Albanese’s “balance” has also helped to demonise Israel, encouraging the pro-Palestine protesters now terrifying our Jews and attacking their synagogues.

That’s why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now blames Albanese in part for the firebombing last week of the Adass Israel Synagogue, saying it was “impossible to separate this reprehensible act” from the government’s “extreme anti-Israeli position”.

He’s right. It’s no coincidence that the worst Jew-hatred seen in Australia is happening under Albanese.

And, as before, it will be the Jews first and then the rest of us as barbarians run riot, unchecked by a government that’s put its own survival above our country’s.