With today’s alleged attempted knife murders in the Jewish enclave of Golders Green and of arson attacks on a synagogue in Melbourne and a kosher restaurant in Sydney, we now have UK and Australia admitting terrorism on their soil by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its IRGC.

Yet, to both nations’ prime ministers, Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese, despite these acts offering casus belli, the US-Israeli operation to topple the extreme-Islamist regime in Iran is still “not our war”.

What we do know, is that both UK and Australia undermined US peace processes in Gaza that were on the verge of disarming and removing Hamas forever.

These processes would have already seen the rebuilding of that land into a world-class riviera for a future moderate Palestinian-oriented democracy.

Instead, Starmer and Albanese declared a Palestinian State in the UN that doesn’t exist, doesn’t have a government, and thereby has less chance of doing so than the Crown Prince of Iran forming an Iranian democracy this year.

Accordingly, the Islamist world saw weakness in both men: Prime ministers who espouse extreme socialism combined with a blind eye to antisemitism in a new global world order, to use the EU’s words, that evokes memories of National Socialism.

Yet, across the Arab World, the Mideast and Levant weakness begets disrespect.

This is the very point that Trump’s US is ramming down the throat of a bully Iran today: one of strength against a misogynistic, religiously corrupt and sadistic regime backed for too many decades by an enviously weak France.

Note, therefore, how at the slightest hint of US weakness, Iran is scrambling now trying to maintain a media narrative of defeat and chaos among the US military: of a message switching back and forth from Iran to an already forgotten Gaza making sure that Israel must always be blamed.

Note, above all, the unspoken contradiction displayed by UK and Australia:

That while a distant Iran cannot be their war, the fight for a distant Palestine must be.

This contradiction is easily explained.

At its simplest it is racism, Muslims versus Jews.

But we need to add more nuance to explain its broader truth.

For UK and Australia to fight for a free Iran, they would need to admit that fighting against institutional Islamist misogyny is a just cause.

But if UK or Australia ever did that, they would have to admit that the same misogyny exists in the Gaza and West Bank of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Authority.

Hence for Starmer and Albanese, it’s safer and politically neater to let UK and Australia be attacked by Iran.

Which is as ludicrous as it sounds.

What scares me most, is that this claim holds the genuine potential to be true.

© 2026 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: London Metropolitan Police statement and quote on Golders Green, 29 April 2026. Public domain.