Are Jews not allowed even one day of commemoration? Can’t they have just one sombre moment where they might remember their dead without mobs of wild-eyed Israelophobes frothing at the mouth for yet more ‘intifada’? Judging by the obscene events here in Sydney last night, the answer to that question is a firm No. It seems a Jew’s right to grieve counts for nothing in the face of the mob’s right to wail and rage about Israel.

I’m tired of tiptoeing around this. Intifada means violence against Jews

Even by the standards of the Israel-hating left, what happened in Sydney yesterday was despicable. The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, was in town. He’s on a four-day state visit to Oz. His main focus for the day was to visit the site of the Bondi pogrom of 14 December, when Jews were massacred by two suspected Isis gunmen. Fifteen were killed, including a ten-year-old Jewish girl by the name of Matilta.

Herzog, head of the Jewish nation, wanted to pay his respects. He and his wife Michal met and hugged survivors of the slaughter and Jews whose loved ones were slain. Yet they were forced to do so to a sinister background din of blind hatred for Israel. The keffiyeh classes couldn’t take just one day off. They hollered about ‘war........

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