One eye and four blindfolds
Australia’s sudden realism concerning a malign Iran cannot repair the harm it is doing to Israel and the West.
JNS
Aug 28, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his virulently anti-Israel foreign minister, Penny Wong
The reluctance of Western governments to
respond robustly to Iranian aggression ever since the Islamic
revolutionary regime in Tehran came to power in 1979 has hugely
increased the danger that this malign actor poses to the free world.
Not only has Iran committed countless acts
of terrorism against Western interests and Jewish targets. The Islamic
Republic has also created a network of jihadi sleeper cells in Western
countries. It’s been involved in coordinating the pro-Hamas hate marches
in Western cities ever since the Hamas-led atrocities in southern
Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
And it’s tried to murder Iranian
dissidents and political figures in Britain and America, including plots
to assassinate on American soil the former U.S. National Security
Adviser John Bolton and the former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
This week, the Australian government,
headed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, suddenly announced that Iran
had been behind two terrorist attacks against Jewish targets last year,
the firebombing of the Adass Synagogue in Melbourne and the kosher Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney.
According to the Australian Security
Intelligence Organization (ASIO), it’s likely that the Iranian regime
was also involved in other attacks.
As a result, the Australian government has
thrown out the Iranian ambassador—the first time it has expelled an
ambassador since World War II—and has pulled its own diplomats out of
the Islamic Republic. It also intends to proscribe Tehran’s terrorist
shock troops, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
This is, to put it mildly, a startling
development. The Albanese government has taken an eye-wateringly hostile
attitude to Israel in its war against Iran. Albanese and his virulently
anti-Israel foreign minister, Penny Wong, have never shown any sign
that they’ve understood the threat posed by Iran to both Israel and the
West.
Instead, they’ve consistently sucked up to
the fanatics of Tehran. At the beginning of August, Iran’s ambassador
to Australia, Ahmad Sadeghi, called for the “wiping out” of the “Zionist
plague” by 2027.
This was but the latest in a string of
deeply concerning remarks by Sadeghi that had received no adequate
ministerial pushback. Last year, he extolled the now-deceased Hezbollah
chief Hassan Nasrallah as a “remarkable leader” and a “prominent
standard-bearer,” while defaming Israel as “the most notorious killing
machine in current world history.”
Calling his “Zionist plague” remarks
“abhorrent,” “hateful” and “antisemitic,” Albanese implied that Sadeghi
had been summoned for a dressing-down. In fact, he was reportedly called
in for talks with foreign ministry officials merely about how to
“de-escalate” the war in Gaza in order to have “a sustained ceasefire.”
Yet since the start of the Gaza war,
Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, has been summoned for a
dressing-down by the Albanese administration on at least three occasions
because it doesn’t like the way that Israel has been conducting its
military operations.
The government has presided over an
explosive frenzy of Jew-hatred in Australia. Not only has it failed to
douse this, it has actually fueled it by recycling the Hamas lies that
have painted the Israelis as evil people who deliberately kill civilians
and starve children to death.
It has arguably displayed more malice
towards Israelis than has been shown by any other country. Earlier this
month, it canceled a visit by Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset’s
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, shortly before he was due to
begin a solidarity tour with Australia’s Jewish community.
Among its reasons, the government said
Rothman’s statements, including “the elimination of Hamas and the
expansion and sovereignty of the Israeli state, and denial of any
wrongdoing by Israel against Palestinians and Gaza during the current
conflict,” were viewed by members of the Australian community as
“inflammatory and concerning.”
In fact, the Albanese government has a
shocking track record of canceling the visas of Israeli Jewish visitors,
including the former government minister Ayelet Shaked and the
high-tech influencer Hillel Fuld, whose brother, Ari Fuld, was murdered
at the Gush Etzion Junction by terrorists in 2018.
Yet it’s happily issued visas to terrorist
sympathizers, including the London-based Tunisian media entrepreneur
Sammi Hamdi, who encouraged people to “celebrate” Oct. 7, and preacher
Mohammed Ghuloom, who had also praised Nasrallah.
So remarks made by Albanese and Wong, when announcing their action against Tehran, struck a note of quite sickening hypocrisy.
Iran, said Wong, had tried to “undermine
social cohesion”; Albanese said it had tried to “sow hatred and division
in our community.” But it’s Albanese and Wong themselves who have been
sowing hatred and division against the Jews of Australia by
regurgitating Hamas lies and maliciously discriminating against Israelis
in order to appease their country’s Muslims.
Moreover, government sources have
reportedly disclosed that the Albanese government has been aware for
several months of possible Iranian links to the attacks on Jews in
Australia.
So why has Albanese suddenly decided to
act against the Islamic regime? The reason is almost certainly that he
has begun to feel some heat over his government’s appalling behavior.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
pushed diplomatic niceties to one side by chewing him out in public over
the Rothman ban, while Israel has stripped some Australian diplomats of
their visas. This may have concentrated Albanese’s mind on the fact
that intelligence-sharing with Israel remains crucial to Australia’s
national security.
In 2017, Israel alerted ASIO that there was a plot to blow up an Etihad Airways flight leaving Sydney. And this week, Sky News
revealed that a tip-off from Israeli intelligence had assisted ASIO
during its investigation, which unraveled the Iran connection to the
terror attacks.
More significant still, U.S. President
Donald Trump appears to be taking a very dim view indeed of Australia’s
anti-Israel antics. He has yet to meet Albanese.
And Australia’s defense minister, Richard
Marles, was humiliated this week by American defense officials’
ambiguity over whether exchanges with his U.S. counterpart, Pete
Hegseth, in Washington, D.C., were an actual “meeting” or a
“happenstance encounter.”
Any idea that Albanese has now seen the light over Israel is vanishingly unlikely.
On Sky News Australia,
Sharri Markson revealed that in 1998, a “starry-eyed” Albanese met
Yasser Arafat, head of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization,
which had sponsored and funded his trip to Ramallah.
Two years later, she said, during the
Second Intifada, when Palestinian Arabs were blowing Israelis to bits on
buses and in pizza parlors, Albanese joined protests against Israel,
during which American and Israeli flags were burnt.
In a speech to the Australian parliament
while Israel was struggling to stop the slaughter of more than 1,300 of
its citizens, Albanese condemned Israeli roadblocks and other
restrictions on Palestinians as abuses of their civil rights.
Albanese has now admitted that he has been
an advocate for the Palestinian cause his whole life and says he is
angry at the anti-Israel protesters—only because their extremism is
undermining that cause. In other words, in the great battle now underway
between civilization and barbarism, Albanese has put Australia on the
wrong side.
This matters not just to Israel but to the
West. Australia is a member of the Five Eyes security alliance. The
other four members are the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and
New Zealand.
In its hostility to Israel—the West’s
indispensable front line of defense in the Middle East—Australia has
been puncturing that alliance, a breach that its belated burst of
realism over Iran cannot repair.
Unfortunately, though, it’s not alone in
this. The United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand have also turned into
foes of the Jewish state, demonizing it with lies aimed at its
delegitimization and preparing to recognize the illusory “state of
Palestine” which is being willed into existence purely as a means to
Israel’s destruction.
Only America is holding fast to Israel’s
security and defense. So the Five Eyes alliance has now turned into One
Eye and Four Blindfolds.
Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand
can no longer be trusted with the defense of the West. It’s now America
and Israel fighting for a free world that no longer understands what
that means.
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