‘The left hates that': Democrat's dislike towards successful countries rises
'The left hates that, everything is looked through the oppressor-oppressed pyramid,' Mr Horowitz told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
'They see whoever is at the tippy top of that pyramid of success, you are the most oppressive because you could have only gotten to the top of that pyramid by stepping on the necks of people below you.
'They look at the Jews and Israel on the top of that economic pyramid and that's why they have so much hatred for the state of Israel … it's currently what we are seeing today.'
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Jewish Australians call for national anti-hate unit
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"I don't know where the next attack will be or when or how, all I can say is that it is statistically likely that it will occur," the council's president Daniel Aghion said. "So far, we have been lucky in that no one has died." He urged Victorian authorities to disallow weekly pro-Palestine protests in their current form and bring in protest zones, after a group on Friday night damaged an Israeli restaurant following a rally. In that incident, a restaurant window was smashed, tables flipped and chairs thrown as police directed the group to leave the area. One person was arrested for hindering police. The Jewish Council of Australia denounced the synagogue attack but said it was "irresponsible and inflammatory to link this anti-Semitic act with separate protest actions". "Such language inaccurately conflates Jewishness with support for Israel, and undermines the fight against real anti-Semitism," executive council member Ohad Kozminsky said. Late on Friday, a group spray-painted cars with anti-Semitic "inferences" then set them alight in the city's northeast. A fourth incident involved stencils used to spray paint offensive images on pillars and walls near a Holocaust museum in the suburb of Elsternwick. Victorian police have not declared the incidents as related to terrorism but are working alongside counter-terrorism officers. The attacks, which have draw the ire of Israel, were condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who said those responsible must face the full force of the law. Australia's Jewish community is pushing the federal government to set up a national task force to curb anti-Semitism. A Victorian task force will examine police powers after a spate of anti-Semitic incidents in Melbourne in recent days, including an alleged arson on the East Melbourne Synagogue that forced 20 worshippers inside to flee. Sydney man Angelo Loras, 34, has been charged over the fire, which occurred seven months after the city's Adass Israel Synagogue was damaged in what authorities have alleged was arson. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, an umbrella group for the nation's Jews, feared further anti-Semitic attacks and said more than state-based action was needed. It urged the federal government to adopt a 15-point action plan including the establishment of a national task force to clamp down on anti-Semitism. "I don't know where the next attack will be or when or how, all I can say is that it is statistically likely that it will occur," the council's president Daniel Aghion said. "So far, we have been lucky in that no one has died." He urged Victorian authorities to disallow weekly pro-Palestine protests in their current form and bring in protest zones, after a group on Friday night damaged an Israeli restaurant following a rally. In that incident, a restaurant window was smashed, tables flipped and chairs thrown as police directed the group to leave the area. One person was arrested for hindering police. The Jewish Council of Australia denounced the synagogue attack but said it was "irresponsible and inflammatory to link this anti-Semitic act with separate protest actions". "Such language inaccurately conflates Jewishness with support for Israel, and undermines the fight against real anti-Semitism," executive council member Ohad Kozminsky said. Late on Friday, a group spray-painted cars with anti-Semitic "inferences" then set them alight in the city's northeast. A fourth incident involved stencils used to spray paint offensive images on pillars and walls near a Holocaust museum in the suburb of Elsternwick. Victorian police have not declared the incidents as related to terrorism but are working alongside counter-terrorism officers. 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‘He's taking the piss': Sky News host Paul Murray torches Anthony Albanese for ducking US while cozying up to China
Sky News host Paul Murray has hit out at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for pushing away the United States while cozying up to China. Later this month, Mr Albanese meet with China's President Xi Jinping for the fourth time, while he is still yet to meet US President Donald Trump. Speaking on Monday night, Murray said relations between Australia and the US 'should always be closer' than the relations between Australia and China, as he claimed the need to build up the military was due to the former and not the latter. Murray said from a domestic politics standpoint, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did 'better' when he was in 'more trouble' with President Trump, given the majority of Australians do not like the US leader. However, the Sky News host claimed the Prime Minister was 'taking the piss' after Mr Albanese tried to draw parallels with the current push-and-pull between the global superpowers and Curtin-era Australia. In his weekend address on the 80th anniversary of former prime minister John Curtin's death, Mr Albanese distanced Australia from its history as a close ally of the US and said Australia would pursue its interests as a 'sovereign nation' and not be 'shackled to the past'. Mr Albanese declared the US alliance should be seen as a 'product' of Mr Curtin's leadership in foreign relations, but not the 'extent' of it. 'Curtin's famous statement that Australia 'looked to America' was much more than the idea of trading one strategic guarantor for another,' he told the John Curtin Research Centre. 'It was a recognition that Australia's fate would be decided in our region.' Murray took aim at Mr Albanese for suggesting China was similar to the US or the UK during WWII and Australia's relationship with Beijing was just a matter of 'balancing things'. 'What I did find offensive about the suggestion from the speech on Saturday was: 'Oh, well, this is just like John Curtin. We know how to balance things.' That was a choice between the UK and the European war, or the Americans and the Pacific War that, of course, at some point, involved subs in Sydney Harbour, the bombing of Darwin, Broome,' Murray said. 'I think he's taking the piss by turning around and pretending that this balance with China is the same thing. The only reason we need to build up our military is because of China, not because of America.' Nationals Senator Matt Canavan said the Prime Minister was misleading Australians and was not being 'upfront'. 'He's not really being upfront about what his goals and ambitions are for the relationship between our two countries, between Australia and the United States, and seemingly his desire to get closer to a dictatorship, a totalitarian regime in China,' he said. 'I think the Australian people deserve to know, does the Albanese government view America as the most important friend and ally to our country, which has been the case since John Curtin made that shift, since World War Two, or do they think we should replace the United States with the likes of a dictatorial communist regime in Beijing?' Experts have warned social media posts made by the Prime Minister and his most senior ministers have 'sabotaged' US relations after uncovered a flurry of historic tweets attacking Trump, with some politicians describing him as a threat to democracy and a liar. In posts from 2021, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called on the former Morrison government to publicly condemn Trump and accused him of inciting violence. Mr Albanese, while opposition leader, accused President Trump of 'anti-democratic' actions, peddling 'nonsense' and encouraging 'violent insurrection'. Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, whose role involves dealing with the Trump administration, alleged that he had 'incited violence', and that he was 'bad for allies'. Attacks ranged from allegations Trump was stoking 'fear and rage' to engaging in 'anti-democratic actions', while in one childish criticism, a senior minister mocked Trump as a liar who wore a "toupee". The Labor politicians made the comments on social media at a time when it appeared unlikely that the US President would return for a second term. But experts have since said the White House would be acutely aware of the social media rhetoric and warned it has destabilised relations.
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Sky News host Sharri Markson asks if it is safe to be a Jew and still live in Australia after a horrific weekend
The Jewish community can't help but ask: Is it still safe to live here in Australia? Where and when will the next attack be? Should we be moving somewhere else to protect our children and our families? These are the questions we're helplessly pondering, bereft in our darkest hour. We have to be upfront about the country we're now living in. Australia has become violent and racist. Our once proudly multicultural, peaceful society has turned ugly, and it's increasingly unsafe for Jewish Australians. There's been yet another weekend of horror. A Melbourne synagogue set alight, cars torched and an Israeli restaurant stormed, with families terrorised. We warned this would happen, over and over again. We begged for the federal government to show leadership. We even developed a blueprint to help tackle this crisis at our Sky News Antisemitism Summit. Yet, Albanese did not adopt a single one of the recommendations, perhaps naively believing if he did nothing, if he buried his head in the sand, the problem would go away. But of course it hasn't, and under his watch our country has irrevocably changed. This is the face of Australia in 2025: a violent, unsafe nation where racism has been allowed to flourish. Where a peaceful, philanthropic, caring community has been demonised and become a scapegoat for a foreign war, while out-of-control pro-Palestinian activists are endlessly protected by the law and the leadership. At one of Australia's oldest synagogues - the East Melbourne Hebrew synagogue - on Friday night, Jews were the targets. A man rang the synagogue's doorbell around 8pm, twice. Inside, about 20 jews were enjoying Shabbat, the Friday evening meal. The Age newspaper reports a 13-year-old was in the synagogue office at the time and heard the bell. Through the security monitors, he reportedly saw a man he didn't recognise. Thankfully he didn't open the door. The man lit a petrol bomb at the entrance to the synagogue - where it detonated. On the same night, a Jewish-owned restaurant, Miznon, in Melbourne's popular Hardware Lane, was stormed by about 20 masked protesters chanting 'death to the IDF'. They terrorised families eating dinner and toppled furniture in disgraceful, unlawful scenes. This lawless act had its inception a day earlier when pro-Palestinian social media accounts demanded a boycott of this restaurant, sharing the address. That murderous phrase they chanted - "death to the IDF" - started at the Glastonbury music festival and has spread across the globe. The fact that crowds at a music festival mindlessly chanted this phrase is difficult to comprehend when 250 similar young people at the Nova music festival in Israel were hunted, gunned down and murdered on October 7. The bloody Nova massacre was apparently forgotten at Glastonbury. And now forgotten in Australia, too. The protests, full of hatred, continue in Melbourne and Sydney most weekends, encouraged by angry political rhetoric. As DOR Foundation chief executive Tahli Blicblau writes in The Australian: 'Every week, protesters march through the streets of Melbourne calling for intifada and revolution, and this is amplified online. Who could be surprised that calls for uprising would lead to actual uprising?' And Jewish community leader Mark Liebler makes the same point, writing: 'As long as protests accompanied by chants of 'Zionists are terrorists', 'death to the IDF', 'globalise the intifada' and 'from the river to the sea' continue, violence directed at the Jewish community and its institutions will follow.' Elements of this angry, hateful pro-Palestinian protest movement have beocme dangerous. It's not a peaceful expression of political speech, as many try to claim. It's cultivating and nurturing hatred against Jews. It's excusing and justifying cruelty and violence. You'd think we'd be used to this by now, but we're not. And the sadness of each attack against the Jewish community in Australia never gets easier. It's been six months since arsonists tried to set alight the Newtown synagogue in Sydney. A pre-school was completely destroyed in another firebombing, while cars and buildings were similarly torched in Sydney's east. It's been six months, too, since the Addas Israel synagogue in Melbourne was firebombed. I'll never forget the devastating symbolism of walking through the charred remains of hundreds of prayer books. The history of persecution repeating itself in modern Australia. After that attack, we heard much the same political commentary as we have again now. Politicians utter a repetitive script: "This must be condemned. The full force of the law felt." The platitudes have become meaningless. Their words unmatched by actions. The perpetrators who firebomb Jewish institutions intend to kill, harass or harm Jews. They are motivated by their hatred of Israel. It's a hatred I believe the Albanese government perpetuates with its anti-Israel rhetoric and hostile foreign policy. The Israeli Minister for the Diaspora and for Combating Antisemitism made this point formally in an official letter addressed to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Amichai Chikli didn't mince his words. He wrote: 'This alarming climate is unfolding under your government's watch - and is further legimitzed by recent actions to deny entry to former Israeli minister Ayelet Shaked and pro-Israel advocate Hill Fuld. 'These choices are seen as discriminatory and embolden those who spread hate. This is no longer a matter of rising tensions - it is a test of moral leadership.' And he warned that silence sends a dangerous message that Jewish safety is negotiable. It's not. Of course it's not. This is not an impossible problem that has no solution. We have helped the Albanese government with a clear strategy to tackle antisemitism. That was the point of our Sky News Summit in February, attended by some of the brightest brains in the country, including Federal Court Judge Justice Michael Lee, former Prime Minister John Howard, former Chancellor Greg Craven, Holocaust survivors, the Ambassador to Israel Amir Maimon, NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Dave Hudson, Former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, and many more. They contributed ideas for much-needed reform. Through this summit, along with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, we developed 15 recommendations across national security, education, the university sector, migration, citizenship, social media and more. You can see the full list at this link, but they included the declaration of a National Emergency on antisemitism and establishment of a Joint Counter-Terrorism Taskforce. The repeal of charity status and funding from religious and charitable institutions if they promote racism or display terrorist symbols. The Migration Act should be enforced or amended to ensure antisemitic conduct is grounds to reject a new visa, or cancel an existing one. New social media legislation such as Algorithms Regulation laws, should be introduced to counter foreign interference. They are 15 sensible areas of reform that ECAJ Alex Ryvchin said would have a meaningful impact in reducing antisemitism. We did the thoughtful and meaningful work for Albanese. He didn't have to develop a single policy. Yet, while the Coalition committed to the crucial reform in its entirety, the Albanese government refused to implement any of our recommendations. Not one. Albanese is categorically not doing all he can. He has refused to action policy areas that would help reduce the level of antisemitism we're experiencing in Australia. If he truly wants to end this crisis, then he needs to adopt our action points from our Antisemitism Summit. He needs to take action, not simply mouth pointless platitudes. As you'll recall, when we held our Antisemitism Summit, then Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus accused us of doing it for ratings. An absurd notion. No one who is hurting deeply from this antisemitism crisis in Australia could possibly make such a crude suggestion. And that's the problem with the Albanese government - they believed this was all confected, they didn't genuinely believe drastic action was needed. Despite the multiple firebombings, the arson attacks, the torched cars and the vandalised offices. It's enough. It was enough long ago.
