In the immediate wake of Barack Obama's election in early 2009, Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano sent a memo to law enforcement nationwide saying, in effect, forget radical Islam - the American Right is going to be the real terror threat.
We've been waiting almost seventeen years, but who knows? She might still be right.
In related news, hours after a couple of Islamic extremists murdered fifteen people at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sprang into action, going after the real culprits.
The Australian Prime Minister flags the “far right” as a national threat following the massacre at Bondi Beach. pic.twitter.com/u6EDDLVvgs
— Caldron Pool (@CaldronPool) December 15, 2025
Right-wing populism is apparently the WD40 of terrorist motives; R there's apparently no crime it can't be shoehorned into:
Official transcripts show the Prime Minister spoke a total of 5022 words in press conferences, interviews and statements in the day after the suspected ISIS-inspired terror attack on a Jewish festival that left 15 innocents dead and 42 injured.
In that time, Mr Albanese did not once say the words “Muslim”, “Islam” or “Islamic extremism”. The PM instead spoke only of anti-Semitism, violent extremism and even twice raised threat of “right wing extremist groups”.
Fifteen people are dead (and likely more would have died but for the heroism of fruit vendor Ahmed Ahmed) - but Albanese spent a good chunk of the weekend laser-focused on...Nigel Farage?
The real culprit, some say, is the PM and his sympathies themselves:Albanese is a veteran anti-Semite, who can be found in local television archives from the past participating in anti-Semitic demonstrations (or in their disingenuous name – “pro-Palestinian”), shouting slogans into a megaphone while Israeli and American flags burn around him. It’s no wonder that in the past year, under his leadership, anti-Semitism is raging throughout Australia without any firm response from the government.
In fact, the Australian government is leading and generating anti-Semitism in the country. Its foreign policy is similar to countries like Ireland, Turkey, and Spain, taking extreme positions against Israel. For example, recently it supported the UN resolution for “ending Israel’s illegal presence in occupied Palestinian territory.” Because the anti-Semite is only interested in international law when it comes to Jews. From his perspective, our people – who were illegally exiled from their land, illegally expelled from country to country, illegally murdered and persecuted, and are still attacked time after time illegally – should sit politely and legally, quietly waiting for their destruction. And not only that, but also hear moral lectures from the country that symbolizes white colonialism more than any other.
But whether by malice or incompetence, the Prime Minister is being excoriated for his response, in the US:
Speaking to Fox News, [US Senator] Lindsey Graham delivered a blunt assessment of the nation’s leadership in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach terror attack that killed 16 people during a Hanukkah celebration, while also claiming that former Presidents “Obama and Biden have a lot to do with this”.
The Republican Senator said Australia had ignored explicit warnings from Israel and failed to confront the growing threat of extremist violence, as he pointed the finger directly at the Prime Minister’s foreign policy decisions.
By Israeli PM Netanyahu:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a government meeting in Dimona:
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 14, 2025
“On August 17, about 4 months ago, I sent Prime Minister Albanese of Australia a letter in which I gave him warning that the Australian government's policy was promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia pic.twitter.com/lZZDFsa91W
And within Oz itself:
Australia’s Jewish leaders have been urging the Australian government for years to do more to address rising antisemitism in the country.
Australia has seen huge public protests over the magnitude of Israel’s war in Gaza, and after a surge in reports of attacks against Jewish sites and property, Albanese appointed a Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism last year – handing the role to Jillian Segal.
Albanese should resign…ignored the warnings ..despises Israel and the Jewish people..He and his government through their lack of decisive leadership against antisemitism have actually sanctioned it…and thus failed to keep their citizens safehttps://t.co/eyMmOnijEX
— Dave Tetro (@DaveTetro) December 17, 2025
Albanese's Labor party is in damage control mode:
The Albanese government says it will ramp up its response to recommendations to combat antisemitism put forward by its special envoy in the wake of Bondi’s terrorist attack.
In the wake of Sunday’s shooting, the government has been criticised for its delay in responding to, or adopting, all of the July report’s “key actions”.
Labor’s political opponents have used it as proof Australia hasn’t done enough to stamp out the rise in antisemitism in recent years.
Dare we say, Labor's opponents are...pouncing?
