Facing up to evil

Rising anti-semitism in Australia plays into the hands of Iran's leaders

On the eve of New York’s Thanksgiving Parade, the city’s police warned “malicious actors” any attempt to disrupt the procession would be dealt with firmly. They were backed by Mayor Eric Adams who, despite strong woke tendencies, understands the theory of zero-tolerance policing. “We are going to be on top of those who attempt to interrupt the parade in any way possible,” he said.

Nevertheless, a dozen or so pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanced their luck, plonking themselves in front of the Ronald McDonald float. The NYPD was true to its word, dragging them away without hesitation.

“Anti-Israel bozos block clown at Macy’s Parade,” ran the headline in the New York Post.

d“It’s exactly the type of language we were missing,” Ruby Chen, father of Hamas captive Itay Chen, told Fox News.

If NSW police had acted as decisively on October 9 last year it would have sent a message that anti-Semitism will not be tolerated. Instead, they stood by impassively as our own Palestinian bozos lobbed flares over their heads.

With Donald Trump’s inauguration barely six weeks away, a similar kind of backbone is about to be restored to US foreign policy. President-elect Trump