This afternoon, in Sydney, I briefly waved an Israeli flag off to the side of a pro Palestian protest. I was on the steps of the Anglican Cathedral. I am an Anglican clergyman. I am the child of a German Jewish mother who fled the holocaust. I wanted to make a small stand against
Today, in the heart of multicultural Sydney, we saw open support for Hezbollah, a jihadist death cult, a proscribed terrorist organisation. And, what makes it worse, is that this took place on Anglican church property. It's time to stop allowing Jihadist jew haters to have free
Lots of people have asked me if I was scared at the pro-Palestine/Hamas rally on Monday. Yes I was. Here's why - a masked pro-Palestine/Hamas supporter threatening to slit my throat. In broad daylight. In the centre of Sydney. We have learned over the weekend, if we didn't
So these people seemed to be out in support of Hezbollah in the heart of Sydney.
I listened to speeches for 15 minutes. Heard things like “all Zionist’s are going to rot in hell”. So I guess that puts all advocates of a two state solution in their place.
Another very
When the Caliphate Comes to (Sydney) Town
I think I can claim the dubious distinction of being the first Sydney Anglican cleric to be chased through the streets of Sydney’s CBD, in broad daylight, by a Muslim pro-Palestinian mob.
Imagine if they had known that, even though I
Hey
@Officeworks
it’s really not a good idea to refuse service to a Jewish person because they are Jewish. I think your staff member should go and spend the day at a holocaust museum to see how actions like hers are chilling echoes of 1930’s Germany. And that instead of signaling
Just to be clear, there were absolutely no clashes between police and any of the
#neveragainisnow
participants in Melbourne yesterday. We were completely peaceful. Sadly, all the hatred and violence came from the pro-Palestinian side. If you protest a rally that is all about
@sarah_keoghan
@smh
And then I ran because a bunch of them started chasing me. And I'm an Anglican clergyman, standing on the steps of the Anglican Cathedral, being chased by a muslim mob.
Wonderful day helping out the Jewish students on Sydney Uni campus as they make a stand for Israel, and against terrorism. No-one could remember when last there was such a public display of Jewish identity at Sydney Uni. Lots of respectful conversations were had. Prayers were
@JMPSimor
I think this is just great testimony to the way Israel is conducting this war against a truly barbaric enemy. These people were detained, questions checked out, and released, I went out. They were not raped. They were not tortured. And they were not taken hostage.
Quite the experience to see the 'yes' supporters on this platform call my beautiful, kind, compassionate daughter
@Freya_J_Leach
'racist' 'piece of work' 'fascist' 'nazi' etc just because she dared question the "yes" vote on
#QandA
. I admire her courage and composure!
How to spot a Jew-hater online today - check to see who is condemning Israel’s precise, clinical strike on Hezbollah after being silent about Hezbollah’s indiscriminate targeting of Israeli civilians with thousands of rockets for the past 11 months.
Last night I got to speak against a motion calling for boycott disinvestment and sanctions against Israel at our local Government council meeting (the Inner West Council in Sydney). Over 100 highly agitated and aggressive anti-Israel protesters packed the small space. I, and the
@AustralianJA
I will be at Town Hall at that time, peacefully showing the support of the Christian community in Australia for Israel. I'll have Israeli flags, an Aussie flag, and some placards. I wouldn't mind some company! We don't want this death cult of Hamas to have any support here.
@TheRonBaumann
Not at all - you may struggle to believe it, but I'd much rather just keep my head down pastoring my church. But that's what many pastors did in Germany in the 1930s. So I don't think that option is open to me. Do you not think that we should oppose jihadist terror groups?
@AdamBandt
I am astounded at your complete lack of a moral compass. There is no moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel. What possible grounds do you have for your support of Hamas, and opposition to Israel except hatred of Jews?
After a lengthy conversation with the very helpful NSW Police, I've decided that the situation at Town Hall may well be too volatile. They were at pains to tell me that they could not guarantee my safety in this situation, although they would do their best. So I'll be heading
@jennyleong
@Chrys_Stevenson
But their chants are vile antisemitism calling for the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous inhabitants of the land of Israel/Palestine
@JacintaAllanMP
Will you join us to speak publicly against this hatred and for our Jewish community tomorrow 2:30 pm on Parliament steps? There’ll be 10,000 Christian’s and Jews gathering in a show of love and unity. We need your leadership and your voice
#neveragainisnow
@marquelawyers
There are two competing visions of our society at play - one is a race-based, identitarian, divided, and backward looking country, where we are all victims needing protection and provision from central government, and the other is a forward looking society, united, embracing our
To all my friends on fb, or X, I'm sorry if you feel that all I am sharing is about Israel and the war on Hamas. I feel a great responsibility to ensure that 'never again means never again'. The world was deaf, blind, or sometimes complicit last time. So I'm doing my little bit
@jennyleong
Do you really support Hamas? Have you been to the Synagogue in Newton to show your support of members of your electorate who now have to meet and worship under massive security because they are not safe from the jihadists you support? And you do know that Israel is at the very
Will
@SenatorWong
and
@AlboMP
join the EU in condemning Hamas for using hospitals and civilians as human shields? And will they walk back
@SenatorWong
comments wrongly accusing Israel of violating international humanitarian law as it seeks to destroy Hamas embedded in these
I’m sitting having a coffee in the city and two Jewish guys come up and thank me for my support. I am undone. I have done so little. And there is so much to do.
For years and years I have thought, and occasionally articulated in private, that allowing large numbers of Arab Muslims to immigrate was foolish. Now we see on the streets of the West that we have imported anti-Semitic genocidal hatred into our home.
Somewhere in the order of
It was a privilege and joy to spend time with David Lewis, the President of The Great Synagogue in Sydney. We are committed to working together to make sure that Australia stays a safe, secular, liberal country, free from anti-semitism.
@CmdrKelvan
I am thoroughly opposed to the idea of killing people to expand your theocratic kingdom. I certainly don't hate Muslims, like my own brother. And I try very hard to maintain that distinction. But I certainly am a Zionist.
HAMAS surrender now!!
This ought to be the global cry. Lay down your arms.
Release the hostages.
Abandon your tunnels.
Hand Gaza back to the people who want to build a peaceful, prosperous life for themselves and their families!
The behaviour of
@AdamBandt
and the
@Greens
is incomprehensible. A country is invaded by a jihadist neighbour, who committed unspeakable atrocities, which they livestream to the world, they take 230 innocent people hostage, the rape and abuse said hostages, they hide the hostages
Last night it was a privilege to join with close 10,000 of Sydney's Jewish community to mourn, to comfort each other, and to strengthen our resolve that good will triumph over evil, love over hate, and life over death
#AmYisraelChai
This takes courage. May the example of the lone Jews on Monday catalyse a movement of support from all those who care about human rights, free speech, judo-christian civilisation, so that never again will it be lone Jews, but rather Jews surrounded and supported and protected by
I was speaking to some new Egyptian friends yesterday. They left Egypt some years ago. They were telling me that all their friends back home don't believe that the massacre of 7/10 happened. Rather it is all fake news to create justification for Israel to eradicate Gaza. And I
@SenatorWong
The best way to protect civilians is for Hamas to stop using them as human shields, in contravention of international humanitarian law. Maximum pressure must be brought on the Arab world to pressure Hamas to comply. Hamas=ISIS
My family fled Germany in 1938 ahead of genocide. We went from a position of established, assimilated affluence in Frankfurt, where my grandfather ran a successful medical practice in partnership with a gentile German, to living in a two roomed house, with a floor made of packed
@ChrisMinnsMP
Can't wait to see NSW ban gender affirming care, the most radical, damaging, and irreversible of all conversion practices! You won't be allowed to pray about feelings you'd rather not have, but you will be allowed to mutilate your body, or that of a child, to deal with the same
@DouglasKMurray
@HumzaYousaf
I would have thought the answer is pretty clear - he's a power hungry politician whose first priority is the protection and expansion of Islam, not service of the Scottish people, and certainly not service of the broader United Kingdom?
There’s a pro-Palestinian protest planned for Sydney Town Hall this afternoon (Monday) at 5:30 pm. I will be there to stand with Israel and show that Australians do not support genocidal terrorists, not now, not ever. Please share this. And please come and join me.
Isn’t it interesting that no one comments on the constant Hamas rocket attacks on the civilian population of Israel? Imagine if there was no Iron Dome? Not even a pretence of targeting military assets. Imagine 1000 rockets a day landing on London, New York, Sydney? Hamas must be
So good to stand the Parliamentary Liberal Party members to say No to Hate in Victoria and to promote
#neveragainisnow
rally on Sunday May 19th, 2:30 pm on these very steps.
This is great, perhaps
@abcnews
you could get your journalists to watch h this to understand why Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation in Australia?
A quick recap of why every American should stand against Hezbollah and be happy that Israel is doing what the US hasn't done for 40 years: bringing the terrorists who murder American citizens to justice.
with
@ILTVNews
@TonyHWindsor
No true at all. It will simply mean that a majority of Australians, whilst recognising, and caring about, indigenous people, want to live in a country that is forward looking, where everyone is equal, irrespective of ethnicity, culture, or time in the country. And they believe
One soul exercising their freedom of speech today at the pro Palestinian rally in Sydney. He was quickly driven off by a large group of angry men. Thankfully the police dispersed them.
What’s interesting is the horror and condemnation at the IDF stripping suspected Hamas terrorists to their underwear. This is presented as a great Jewish atrocity. What is striking is that there are no GoPro videos of the IDF raping these men, executing them, burning them alive.
For many, many years I have thought that the chickens of unrestricted Islamic immigration would eventually come home to roost. Not because I am racist. But because I understand the colonising, jihadist theology of Islam.
It is a wonderful part of our Judaeo-Christian culture
@jennyleong
Israel is following all the rules of war. If Australians want to visit a territory run by a genocidal terror group, then they have to accept the risk of being caught in a war. And your support of Hamas is despicable.
@sahouraxo
Yes, just ask the tens of thousands of their own people who the Iranian regime have murdered since 1979. Ask the women who are imprisoned, raped, tortured, murdered for refusing to wear a hijab. Just ask the Christians in Iran who are tortured, raped, murdered for their faith.
I spoke at another synagogue today. I met a woman who’s husband is an orthopaedic surgeon, he’s traveled to Israel to help, and this morning amputated the legs of 3 young IDF soldiers. War is tragic and brutal. The price is huge. But sometimes it is clearly the lesser of two
@TheRonBaumann
Firstly, its not indiscriminate murder. It's a war of self-defense. Secondly, war is awful, and the suffering of Gazan children is horrendous. Thirdly, how else does Israel secure the safety of its children from a group like Hamas, funded by Iran, who are committed to further
I await with eager anticipation the outpouring of sympathy for and solidarity with Israel for the 11 children murdered by Hezbollah today. I can’t wait for the international calls to sanction Hezbollah, the Lebanese government, and the regime in Iran, all of whom have the blood
@SenatorWong
Neither side targeted the hospital- it seems most likely it was a misfired rocket from the Palestinian side, that detonated a stockpile of munitions on the hospital grounds. A tragedy for which Hamas bears ultimate sole responsibility, had they not engaged in barbaric slaughter
@hotnutbar
The problem with your reply is that on October. 9 Israel had not retaliated in anyway. I was protesting people in Sydney, celebrating the barbaric slaughter of 1200 innocent people, and the seizing of 230 hostages.
@DavidShoebridge
I’d take your plea for compassion more seriously if you did not lie and obfuscate by repeating the Hamas propaganda that there is a genocide in Gaza
Neither side targeted the hospital- it seems most likely it was a misfired rocket from the Palestinian side, that detonated a stockpile of munitions on the hospital grounds. A tragedy for which Hamas bears ultimate sole responsibility, had they not engaged in barbaric slaughter
@SenatorThorpe
It might be worth your while to study what Arab Islamists have done to all the original inhabitants of the lands in the Middle East and North Africa that they have conquered/colonised in the last 1400 years.
@AustralianJA
After a lengthy conversation with the very helpful NSW Police, I've decided that the situation at Town Hall may well be too volatile. They were at pains to tell me that they could not guarantee my safety in this situation, although they would do their best. So I'll be heading
It is hard to take South Africa's case at the ICC seriously, when it has a leader of a major party who cheerfully leads his party in singing songs calling for the murder of white South Africans. And when the murder of whites, such as my brother's, are completely ignored by the
@MPfromMEL
Be wise. Be strong. Be strategic. Figure out what are the key battles to win, so that we win the war for liberal democracy, and a secular state.
Hamas clearly are the kind of people who believe it is morally acceptable to rape, murder, torture, kidnap innocent civilians as an act of terror. But they clearly draw the line at lying. So everything they say from Gaza must be taken as true. Because surely raping murdering
@BeckettUnite
Only a war crime if it can be proved that the IDF deliberately targeted civilians. As opposed to the explicit and documented war crimes of Hamas. Hamas are responsible. Your position is simply Jew hatred.
Listen to this man. 'the best way to save countless lives is for Hamas to unconditionally surrender'. This of course, was what the Nazi German leadership, and the Imperial Japanese leadership, refused to do before the wholesale destruction of their own citizens made defeat
I try not to raise my voice during interviews, but I felt the line of questioning by
@CBCNews
here was totally off. We are trying to do the right thing by calling on civilians to evacuate, yet get lectured on humanity.
@AustralianJA
Maybe it’s time we all held a candlelit vigil for the victims of the Oct 7 massacre outside this mosque? Seems fair, given the way they have been occupying Cathedral land in Sydney for their hate-filled events!
This is the mindset behind the anti-Israel rallies around Australia. This is why we need to come out in Sydney on Feb 4th to rally for an Australia free of hatred and antisemitism. Sign up here
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@MChandlerMather
This is a defensive war against an enemy committed to the eradication of the Jewish people. an enemy whose barbaric raping, beheading, burning alive, killing and kidnapping of 1400 innocent Israeli’s has brought this war on their people. The quickest way to end the war is the
So today you will have your feed flooded with footage of the terrible destruction of Al Shifa hospital. As this happens, just remember the following:
1. Hamas used the hospital as a military base. This removes its protection under international law. Israel broke no international
To all those marching in support of Palestine, this is what you are aligning yourself with. Hamas is not about the land. Or about justice. Or about freedom. Or about the Palestinian people. It is about eradicating Israel as a critical step towards establishing a caliphate in
Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal in a Friday Sermon: We Will Conquer Rome, and from There Continue to Conquer the Two Americas and Eastern Europe (Archival)
#Hamas
#Gaza
Thousands of Palestinian civilians are finally able to evacuate south after Israeli forces opened up humanitarian routes that were closed by Hamas for weeks with the hopes of using them as human shields.
I had the great privilege to sharing in Shabbat prayers and then speaking to a gathering of 100 young adults at Central Synagogue, Bondi Junction last night. This is a 'kairos' moment in our culture, when the darkness and evil in the world is revealed in the anti-semitism of many
Just everyday citizens standing up against anti-semitic, massacre denying hatred. There are way more of these people than the haters, we just all need to show up like this!
There are good people out there. Let's hear it for the non-Jewish gentleman in the brown plaid shirt who confronts the pro-murder, pro-kidnap bigot ripping down posters of kidnapped Israelis.