The incidence of violent antisemitism in Australia has been increasing over the last two decades. This explains the reliance on security guards at synagogues and kindergartens, something previously unnecessary.

The crisis began with the failure of successive governments to ensure no immigrant would ever import some unwanted ancient hatred.

In 1975, following the Lebanese civil war, the Fraser government created a ‘Lebanese concession’ to allow Lebanese Christians to escape from the Christian-Muslim conflict and come to Australia.

But most of those who came were Muslims from deprived areas.

Then, in 2012, Labor prime minister Julia Gillard was rolled on her wish to maintain Australia’s bipartisan policy of not supporting the representation of a non-existent Palestinian state in the UN General Assembly.

According to Daniel Flitton in the Sydney Morning Herald, despite a tradition of ‘staunch support’ for Israel, Labor’s ‘already precarious prospects’ in certain western Sydney electorates with a ‘high concentration of people with Middle Eastern backgrounds’, was ‘a key factor’.

It was in fact the dominant factor determining Labor policy.

As mentioned here, the test now for any relevant policy, foreign or domestic, is whether it ‘can be defended on the steps of the Lakemba Mosque’.

In other words, any relevant government policy under Labor, state or federal, will be based on an estimation of its effect on a hypothetical Muslim vote.

That policy should be determined so improperly is bad enough, but under the Albanese and Minns governments, a new and devastating intensification of antisemitism has occurred.

Its introduction was eased by the so-far successful method of reviving the influence of communism proposed by the German student activist Rudi Dutschke and formalised by the German-American professor, Herbert Marcuse.

In the early years of its implementation, it was hardly noticed.

Now, while its widespread existence is often denied, it is, in fact, entrenched.

This is the long march through the institutions, which began, exactly as Marcuse planned, in the universities.

The function of the long march by so-called ‘cultural Marxists’, today’s communists, is to advance dogmas which will undermine and destroy Western civilisation and its institutions.

Hence the so-called gender dysphoria policy in relation to children.

Its latest authorised dogma, designed to undermine and destroy Western civilisation, is clearly extreme antisemitism.

This has already infected the universities and the Greens and is in the process of infecting Labor.

The mainstream media should inform electors of this, while fulfilling their duty to hold all governments accountable and not just conservative ones.

The adoption of extreme antisemitism has been manifested by both the Albanese and Minns governments’ shocking failure to act against open incitement of violence and even the murder of Jews.

It is often disguised by pretending to condemn, equally, antisemitism and virtually non-existent ‘Islamophobia’ or by some pretence that the law cannot be applied.

The great leaders of the Labor party would be outraged by this.

The phenomenon of tolerating antisemitism sadly follows a similar development in the US through the Democratic party, which is a mere shadow of its former self.

Such ideas spread throughout the West, usually beginning with the linguistically and culturally susceptible Anglosphere.

And it is not always Orwellian Newspeak that achieves this.

Labor’s toleration of antisemitism demonstrates this.

This column has previously suggested we abandon the left-right spectrum which functions  as a guardrail to our speech and thought and misrepresents the facts. It allows the Marxists, the new communists, to abuse true democrats as ‘far-right’.

It compels conservative politicians and others to engage in verbal contortions such as defining themselves as ‘centre-right’, a term having little appeal or even understanding amongst the rank and file.

Worse, it suggests, untruthfully, that communism has nothing to do with Nazism and fascism and that antisemitism is restricted to Nazism. As demonstrated below, this is untrue.

One of the features of modern life is the existence of guardrails limiting the way we speak and even think.

Physical guardrails can, of course, be important. Had there been guardrails to block a direct collision with the centre columns of Paris’s Pont de l’Alma tunnel in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, might have survived.

But when it comes to speech, guardrails have become a principal tool of the enemies of free speech.

This is illustrated constantly in modern life. How often are we remonstrated with the phrase, ‘You can’t possibly say that.’?

Whether this is an admonition or a secret encouragement depends, of course, on the circumstances.

To return to the left-right spectrum, these are no more than irrelevant descriptions of the seating arrangements which prevailed in the National Assembly during the French Revolution.

That National Assembly only emerged from the King’s convening the Estates General in a desperate attempts to raise taxes to pay for the massive debts he incurred by supporting the American revolutionaries, not out of principle, but only to damage the old enemy, Britain.

Those supporting the traditional monarchy (the ancien régime) sat on the chairman’s right, those demanding revolutionary changes on his left.

Newspapers began to refer to the ‘left’ and ‘right’.

This usage has led to the fiction of democrats being seen as halfway between the extremes of communism and Nazism, and today, traditional democrats being painted as ‘far right’ or ‘hard right’ and thus close to Nazis.

A more truthful depiction would be a circle. At the top would be the democracies, and at the bottom, the dictatorships: Nazi, fascist, communist, Islamist, etc.

The far worse consequence of the left-right spectrum is the assumption that antisemitism does not exist among the communists and the so-called far left, the faction to which the PM belongs.

Stalin was undoubtedly antisemitic, restricting Jewish cultural and religious life, purging Jewish intellectuals and leaders, and using antisemitic rhetoric in the media.

And while the wartime Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was extremely supportive of the Russian war effort, once the war was over, its leaders were arrested, tortured and executed. A major purge of Jews was being prepared when Stalin died in 1953.

Communist, Nazi, fascist and Islamist criminally barbaric dictatorships are all the opposite of democracy.