Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres.

An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of threats of violence from Muslim minorities. In the West, when an Islamist shoots a Jew, politicians often offer two bizarre remedies: gun control or a task force to tackle Islamophobia.

Yet, our political class rarely offers data on the overwhelming preponderance of targeting Jews rather than Muslims, much less the vast disparity in Jewish-on-Muslim versus Muslim-on-Jewish violence.

To catalog all the recent violence against Jews in the Western world would fill a book.

We know the causes. Anemic Western leaders – politicians, college presidents, media grandees, and celebrities – fear Muslim terrorism, growing Muslim voters, and their own growing antisemitic campus constituencies.

So, they never call out antisemitic violence other than with nauseating nothings like, "Such violence has no place here." Or "We condemn such violence in the utmost terms." Or "This is not who we are."

The prime minister of Australia – a country that produced some of the most heroic soldiers of World War I and II and still is a bulwark of the West in the Pacific – goes through a series of linguistic contortions daily to avoid identifying the threat to Jews and how to stop it. He talks as if guns were animate and murdered Jews without the aid of radical Islamic killers.

So nothing much follows in the West, and Jews are becoming the hunted. The attacks will increase because there is no foreseeable force to combat them.

Just a few years ago, it used to be that antisemitism was mostly on the Left and repugnantly identifiable and condemnable by most.

In 2009, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright grew angry against his former favorite parishioner, then newly elected President Barack Obama, and scoffed in anger, "Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me."

Many leftist icons used to........

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