Aussies must ‘refuse to walk backwards’ in fight against anti-Semitism

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The only way we can defend Australian civilisation from the evils facing it is by channeling the spirit of the kangaroo and emu on our coat of arms and refusing to walk backwards, writes Kel Richards.

Since the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, pro-Palestine protests have swept across the world.

London has been home to many of these protests, with the historic streets marred by chaotic scenes.

Protesters have shown a lack of respect for historic monuments throughout London, using them as canvases for their political statements.

The city is at a crossroads regarding how to deal with these protests, which continue to cause chaos.

Sky News Digital Originals explores how London is handling these latest protests, and if the city can regain order.

The 1,500 delegates were warned that Australia, Britain the United States and all of the western world is facing a “civilisational moment” —a tipping point in which we could lose the civilised values that have guided us for well over than a thousand years, and which have given us the freedoms we enjoy.

The word “civilisation” means “human cultural, social, and intellectual development” (Oxford English Dictionary).

Behind that word is the idea of “civility”, namely “the minimum degree of courtesy required in a social situation.”

These things have created our modern liberal democracies.

Vision has been released of 21 year old Mia Schem running towards her mother, after she was released from Hamas.
Ms Schem was abducted from the Supernova music festival in early October and appeared in a video released by Hamas 10 days later, pleading for her release.
Mia was released and reunited with her family on Thursday, November 30.
Israel says six more hostages have been released by Hamas and are being transferred back to Israel by the Red Cross.
In exchange for the hostages, 30 Palestinian prisoners will be freed.

This new expression “civilisation moment” was launched well before the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the slaughter of 1,200 Israeli civilians (many of them young) and the kidnapping of more than 200 others—from the elderly to little babies.

But that attack brings this phrase “civilisational moment” into sharper contrast.

It was Donald Trump who said that the current battle in the Middle East is a battle between “civilisation and savagery”.

Regardless of your opinion of Trump, the observation is a good one.

And the battle is not just being fought in the Middle East—it is being fought here, on our streets and in our suburbs.

There are noisy demonstrations here in Australia celebrating savagery and hoping that civilisation is defeated.

These frightening demonstrations began the day after the barbaric attack on October 7.

Long before Israel launched any counter action these crowds were chanting “gas the Jews” in front of the Sydney Opera House.

A “Rally For A Free Palestine” protest on the forecourt of The Sydney Opera House in Sydney following the recent outbreak of war between Israel and Palestine. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Jeremy Piper

The warning sign of our “civilisational moment” is the epidemic of anti-Semitism sweeping the western world—what we thought was the civilised world.

The Jews are the “canary in the coalmine”—the warning signal that something is going seriously wrong.

Those who come for the Jews today, will come for us tomorrow.

When the balance tips from civilisation to savagery it happens in a moment.

The pressure builds (as it has been doing for many decades now) until it finally tips over.

For well over a thousand years Western civilisation has been based on the Judeo-Christian worldview.

This is now being turned on its head by the raging savagery that is seeking to replace it.

Everything that was good is being called bad, and what was bad is now called good.

A “sign of a healthy culture” in a country is where Jews prosper and are safe, Sky News host Peta Credlin says.

Ms Credlin said in places where this doesn’t happen, a country’s culture is “in decline”.

“It’s the cultural canary in the coal mine.

“Last night, about 20 anti-Israel protestors invaded a Melbourne hotel.

“Designed to intimidate five family members of Israeli victims and hostages of Hamas who were staying there.”

So, what is this Judeo-Christian worldview that we are now losing?

Is it based on two key principles.

Those two principles were spelled out by Jesus when he said: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” and “Love your neighbour as yourself”.

The first of those key principles tells us that we live in a two-storey universe, that above and beyond the material world we can see around us is the spiritual realm which is the source of life, and of the moral compass that should guide us, and to which we are answerable.

This is classic basis of Alcoholics Anonymous—that we can’t do this on our own, we need a Higher Power.

But this principle has been replaced by a raging, arrogant egotism that says, “No one tells me what do to.”

The result is that there is now no truth, only “my truth”—and no good or bad, just whatever I feel strongly about.

The second key principle says that that life is about others, not just about us.

Kel Richards is a veteran Australian broadcaster and author whose distinguished media career includes hosting the ABC current affairs show AM and his own talkback commercial radio shows. He is also a frequent on-air contributor for Sky News Australia.