I am horrified. A prominent synagogue was set on fire in Melbourne, Australia, today requiring 17 fire trucks and 60 firefighters to bring the extensive damage under control. The Australian Federal Police, Australia’s FBI, is investigating.

At the Australian War Memorial in Canberra is a collection of pictures showing synagogues burning in Poland during WW2 reminding us why we fought Nazism.

Well, we no longer need to visit there to see them. Come to Melbourne instead for the real thing.

The sanctity of churches, mosques and synagogues is the backbone of Australian society. As long as I’ve been alive it’s been glorious to see the mix of religions including Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs in that celebration too—shopping together, studying together, and walking freely on their sabbaths and holy days.

I am at a loss that the freedom to worship without fear is now gone.

Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese has called it “outrageous” and an “antisemitic attack”.

Yet, two days ago his government under the leadership of foreign minister Penny Wong broke national policy and voted in the UN to force Israel to make peace while under attack by Iran, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah among others—and with hostages still in Hamas terror tunnels, left unmentioned by the UN.

Their perceived shift in sympathies gave the green light for today’s attack by sick minds—in Australia. That’s all it takes. A lack of leadership.

Look at it another way. Albanese is Catholic and a heterosexual, and Wong is Christian and a lesbian. I love that. I’m thrilled with people living their own lives in happiness: all colours, all faiths, all capacities, all persuasions; mixed and separate as they desire. Live and let live.

But the only place in the Middle East where they are safe today to pray and live those lives without fear—is Israel. You can’t be LGBTIQ+ in Gaza or the West Bank. You will be killed.

Ironically in addition to this, neither of them has yet fathomed that opening Australia’s doors to extremist Islam and jihadism also means that adherents will eventually stop voting for them.

They won’t vote for a white man and an independent woman. They’ll want jihadists to replace them instead. See Europe.

The Holocaust of WW2 started with the burning of one synagogue and the death of one Jew. Real genocides comes from hate.

A synagogue was burned in Australia today.

© 2024 Adam Parker.

Picture credits: Australian War Memorial Collection: “Palenie synagogi (The burning of the synagogue)” by Slawik, Bernard. © 1943 Bernard Slawik, fair use claimed.

Australian War Memorial Collection: “Palestine. c. 1918. A Jewish Synagogue at Ras Deiran near Jaffa. (Donor T. Fahey)”. Copyright expired, public domain.