I am someone that lives their life in a horse obsessed bubble. I can tell you anything you want to know about racing and thoroughbreds, but as to what happens in the wider world, I’m happy to leave others to commentate on that, but not in this case.
As the Hong Kong international day racing was unfolding last night, I was happily working away in the horse bubble, right up until my son Jack said, “Mum there’s a shooting at Bondi Beach.”
Your first thought is always, crazy person loses their shit, or angry bloke vents his rage on his partner and or children, but no it was neither of those things.
This was a terrorist attack on the Australian Jewish community at Bondi Beach.
I spent a good chunk of my adult life living in the Eastern Suburbs and it is a beautiful and magical place where you can raise a family safely and happily and yet evil was unleashed on Sunday and to say nobody saw it coming would be a complete lie.
I keep my political thoughts to myself as a rule, barring my inner circle, but the rise of the Free Palestine movement is something I have found deeply disturbing over the last few years.
Apparently normal Australians getting on the bandwagon of a movement that is essentially Anti-Israel, either they do not understand what they are supporting or they do understand and that’s even more scary.
What is even more scary again is the government giving traction to this thinking and making it socially acceptable to be Anti-Israel.
Frogs don’t jump in boiling water, it starts off slow.
You get lulled into thinking something is vaguely OK and then it gets a little more and a little worse and nothing happens, so it gets a little more and a little worse.
Watch Sky News and you will know the Jewish community have been dealing with this for quite some time now and if you have ever seen former Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg interviewed you will know exactly what I mean.
People like me are the quiet majority, we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we love our families and live our lives trusting that the government will keep the ship on the right course.
But when 16 people get murdered on Bondi Beach because Anti-Israel sentiment is on the rise and it’s real, it’s time for people like me to say something.
