This is an article by Allison Pearson, writing in the Telegraph, 17th Dec 2025  

Tougher gun laws, more protection for Jewish schools, threats from “far-Right” extremists, a clampdown on hate speech – blah blah, thoughts and prayers, blah, deflection, blah, evasion. Anything to avoid naming the actual problem that is bringing mass murder to peaceful democracies. In hushed, churchy voices, leaders across the West expressed their horror at the terrorist attack on Jews on Bondi Beach, a pogrom that had been enabled in no small part by their own moral cowardice.

Eighty-seven-year-old Alexander Kleytman died sheltering his wife, Larisa, from the bullets. As children, the couple had escaped the Holocaust and eventually sought refuge in Australia. Imagine Alex’s dying thoughts. The Nazis couldn’t kill him but the New Nazis – an unholy alliance of Islamic jihadists and Left-wing fools – got him in the end, in a beautiful place where he and his family were celebrating Hanukkah. Sixty-two-year-old Reuven Morrison jumped up the minute the shooting started. He picked up bricks and threw them, yelling at one attacker to distract him, giving a mother with a buggy time to get to safety before Reuven was shot dead. His daughter, Sheina, said her father came to Australia from the Soviet Union as a teenager “to live as a Jew without fear”. The Australian government has blood on its hands, Sheina said. “My father was murdered because leaders were weak, because they care more about optics than lives.” Ten-year-old Matilda was gunned down by the diabolical father-and-son duo, who calmly loaded, fired and reloaded their weapons, taking aim from a bridge at the terrified people cowering on the sand. It reminded me of that scene in Schindler’s List where a camp commandant fires his gun through an office window, using the Jews below as target practice for his own amusement. He didn’t see them as human. Jews used to feel safe in a country that their grandparents chose because of its decency According to her aunt, Matilda was “just a happy kid”, inseparable from the little sister who watched as she was murdered. The youngest generation of Jews now have first-hand experience of the nightmares their great-grandparents carried with them all their lives. Well, I’m sick of it, aren’t you? Sick of those hateful marches fouling up our cities since the October 7 massacre in Israel. Sick of the BBC and complicit politicians downplaying Jewish suffering and pretending there’s a moral equivalence between the death cult Hamas and soldiers of the IDF. Sick of police doing next to nothing as vile anti-Semitic chants fill the air, while they accost an innocent man for being “openly Jewish”. Sick of Jews feeling scared in this country – the country they used to love and feel safe in, the “kind country” that their parents and grandparents chose because of its decency – and sick of the authorities responding to that fear by offering to ramp up their security. How about arresting, jailing or deporting the evil men causing the fear? Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese said he was “ready for the fight” to tighten gun laws. No, mate, the fight you need to have is with anti-Semitic mobs in Sydney and Islamist immigrants like Sajid Akram and his son, Naveed, who publicly executed 15 of your Jewish citizens and injured scores more. I’m sick of the appeasement of Islamism in general. Sick of kid gloves treatment for a touchy minority who make people nervous. Sick of them praying in our streets (what other religion does that?), relishing the power they hold over a political class which still clings to the myth of multiculturalism as it unravels. Sick of Christmas markets being cancelled for reasons of “safety” (the source of the mysterious danger is never named). At the recent opening of the famous Christmas market in Brussels, masked protesters set off smoke bombs, waved Palestinian flags and intimidated families. Why does Europe bend over backwards to tolerate what my beloved late Welsh grandmother used to call “godless heathens”? I’m sick of those ugly, hulking “diversity bollards” put up in public spaces to prevent a car or truck being driven at a crowd. (We never needed them before, did we? We all know what changed.) Sick of mass, uncontrolled immigration which has imported so many who despise our way of life. Sick of the abject surrender of our borders which allows hundreds more undocumented young males to come ashore every week (40,000 this year alone), posing a threat to women, children and, yes, Jews. Although it is apparently deemed impolite to mention it, the majority of those illegal migrants are Muslims from backward countries who hate Jews, and they’re horrible to women too. Meanwhile, the Home Office tells caseworkers they can’t deny asylum to illegal migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea, because it’s “not safe” to return them to those countries. Even though Afghans and Eritreans are statistically, per capita, the men most likely to rape women. Jews don’t tend to feature in the rape league table. I’m sick of lights for Ramadan in Regent Street when, under Mayor Khan, Christmas symbolism is gradually erased from our capital. Sick of the constant cultural cringeing by educated liberals who see value in every tradition but our own. Labour ministers were going to release a new definition of “anti-Muslim hatred” earlier this week to ingratiate themselves with their client group, but they held off. What with the extreme hatred on Bondi Beach, maybe the introduction of an anti-Muslim hatred measure felt a bit, well, insensitive? I’m sick of hearing “diversity is our strength” when diversity without integration is threatening to destroy our way of life. How can we fight the growing threat when most Western leaders are too frightened even to name the problem they help create? Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the Bondi Beach massacre was composed of burbling platitudes. “Hanukkah should be a time of celebration and joy,” said our Prime Minister, concluding, “we are actively working with the CST [the Community Security Trust, a charity dedicated to protecting British Jews from anti-Semitism and related threats] on the policing of Hanukkah events.” Instead of the Government acting decisively against the Islamist threat, it is Jews who must take steps to make it harder for Islamists to murder them. Really, Keir?

Thank God there are some people of stature who grasp the nature of what we are up against. Reflecting on the Bondi Beach massacre, Tony Abbott, former prime minister of Australia, told Piers Morgan he was ashamed over “insufficient leadership” in his country. Abbott talked about “a reckoning that must take place… a colossal failure to crush the Jew-hatred that’s festered in Australia over the past two years and to stamp out the radical Islamist ideology that’s allowed it to spread. “We must stop importing these ideologies and the people who live by them. They’re at odds with Australia’s core Anglo-Celtic culture and fundamental Judeo-Christian ethos which has made us one of the most free, fair and safe societies in the world.”

The UK Government must stop playing favourites for electoral advantage and abandon the idea of “anti-Muslim hatred” when we have perfectly good laws against religious and ethnic discrimination already. Police and counter-terrorism units must focus their attention on the appalling jihadist threat that has been hidden from the public.

The UK must stop importing ideologies which are not only hostile to Jews and women, but which will eventually destroy us all. If it can happen at Hanukkah, don’t think Christmas is safe. Reuven Morrison jumped up the minute the shooting started at Bondi Beach. Maybe, like me, you will shed a few tears when you see the video of him doing his best, armed only with a brick, to protect his people, protect the idea of the country that gave him, a Jew, sanctuary. Defiant, ridiculously brave. “If there was one way for him to go on this Earth, it would be fighting a terrorist,” his daughter Sheina said. Some people run away from monsters; if we are lucky, others run towards them. Like the Nazi camp commander shooting Jews for sport, Islamists do not see us as human. We must understand that, and we must be united against them. In short, be more Reuven.