The barbaric terrorist attack against Jews in Australia during Hanukkah did not occur in a vacuum. It was not an isolated act by a “lone wolf,” nor can it be explained away by social marginalization or mental instability. This crime was the inevitable outcome of years of nonstop propaganda, moral inversion, and the systematic normalization of antisemitism, disguised as political activism against Israel.
For the past several years, Western societies have witnessed relentless anti-Israel campaigns across universities, media outlets, cultural institutions, and public squares—from the United States and Canada to Europe and Australia. These campaigns were not merely critical of Israeli policy; they demonized Jews collectively, revived classic antisemitic tropes, and portrayed violence, explicitly or implicitly, as justified “resistance.”
Behind much of this global agitation stand state sponsors with clear strategic objectives, most notably the Islamic Republic in Iran and Qatar. Through financial backing, ideological influence, media networks, lobbying, and infiltration of academic and activist circles, these regimes have exported a radical worldview that frames Jews and Israel as existential enemies. This is not conjecture, it is a documented geopolitical strategy.
What makes the situation especially alarming is the role played by Western academia, celebrities, and cultural elites. Many of them, whether through ignorance, moral cowardice, or ideological alignment, lent legitimacy to rallies and movements saturated with hatred. By standing shoulder to shoulder with groups that glorified terror, excused massacres, or called for the destruction of Israel, they helped create an atmosphere where violence against Jews became thinkable and then inevitable.
Words matter. When antisemitism is rebranded as “anti-Zionism,” when mass murder is rationalized as “contextual,” and when Jewish victims are stripped of moral sympathy, the path from slogan to slaughter becomes frighteningly short.
Western civilization now faces a stark choice. Either it confronts this ideology head-on intellectually, politically, and morally or it continues down a path of appeasement that will end in its own erosion. This is not about suppressing free speech or dissent; it is about defending the foundational values of pluralism, rule of law, and human dignity against a barbaric ideology that rejects them all.
Punishing individual attackers after blood has been spilled is not a solution. That treats symptoms, not the disease. The real task is to cut off the roots of this metastasis: expose and dismantle state-sponsored hate networks, defund propaganda pipelines, hold institutions accountable, and draw clear moral lines that antisemitism old or newly repackaged will not be tolerated.
The Islamic Republic in Iran, as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, sits at the center of this global infection. Ignoring this reality has already cost innocent lives. Continuing to ignore it will cost many more.
History has shown, again and again, that antisemitism is never a Jewish problem alone. It is a civilizational warning sign. When it is allowed to spread unchecked, society itself is already in danger.
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