My heart is heavy this morning having watched the news reports last night of the awful shooting at Bondi. In a clearly anti-Semitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in a park adjacent to the bridge, two gunmen killed at least 16 people and injured 40 others. Police have also found explosives in their vehicle.

The only upside of this horrible event is the hero who walked up to one of the attackers and wrestled the rifle away from him. The thing I have noticed in these events over the years is that there is always just one or two men who will put their lives at risk to tackle an armed terrorist. This man’s name apparently was Ahmed Ahmed, so obviously an immigration success story and potential nominee for Australian of the Year.

Blind Freddie could have seen this coming two years ago, following the Hamas atrocity in Israel. On October 8th 2023, thousands of people marched on the Opera House, which has been lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag. They clearly chanted “Gas the Jews!” Every single one of them should have been charged under racial vilification laws, but the NSW Government chose the path of appeasement. They got “experts” to prove that the chants were “Where’s the Jews?” as if that was somehow less threatening.

Since then we have had weekly pro-Palestine marches in various cities. We have had synagogues, Jewish schools and Jewish-owned restaurants burnt and homes vandalised. We even had two nurses from Bankstown Hospital boasting online about how they had killed Jewish patients.

The response from politicians has been “There is no place for antisemitism in Australia.” Well, clearly there is place for antisemitism in Australia because the very same politicians have encouraged it. They have pandered to the Muslim community, they have made a moral equivalence of antisemitism and the made up disease of Islamophobia, they have brought in untold numbers of migrants and refugees with minimal background checking, they have refused to confront the hate preachers who every Friday call for the killing of the Jews, and all in the hope of winning their votes.

It is time to restore peace and hope to this nation.

It is time to reverse course before we end up in the same place as UK and much of Europe.

It is time to end mass migration into this country, and to ensure that only peaceful people who intend to assimilate into our culture come in.

It is time to round up every hate preacher who does not have Australian citizenship and send them out.

It is time to enforce laws against racial hatred.

Above all we need to pray for this nation of Australia. This attack is a wound to our national spirit. We need God’s grace to heal us.