Marxists and Islamists do not accept Israel’s right to exist, nor Australia’s. By Rebecca Weisser in The Spectator.

This week, the Greens’ Nick McKim [made] the extraordinary claim that ‘Jewish Australians won’t be safe from the scourge of antisemitism… until we reckon with the brutality and the underlying violence of the colonisation of this continent based on the lie of terra nullius.’

The link between Isis terrorists and terra nullius may seem like a bit of a stretch to most Australians, but not to the radical left. They inhabit a parallel universe where the greatest crime is to be a settler colony or a settler colonialist. That is the logic of the Invasion Day protesters, who will paint our town monuments red while most Australians are celebrating Australia Day.

It is the absurd, ineradicable original sin of colonisation of which Israel stands accused by both Marxists and Islamists, albeit using starkly different mind maps. The Islamists accept the Old Testament as the word of God, which clearly demonstrates the ancestral claim of the Israelites to the land of Zion. However, the prior existence of the Jewish state is nullified by the Jews’ refusal to follow Islam.

For the Marxists, religion is irrelevant, since it is merely the opiate of the masses. Their post-modern analysis casts Israelis as the oppressors by virtue of their economic success.

What is certain, however, is that if Marxists and Islamists do not accept Israel’s right to exist, they do not accept Australia’s either, so at some point, all the horrors that Islamists have rained down on Israelis could just as easily be visited on Australians. …

The Greens, like the rest of the pro-Palestinian left, seem to be incapable of accepting that Jews can be victims in need of protection, instead resorting to the claim that ‘powerful forces’ were using the massacre for political ends, by which they meant forcing the parliament to combat antisemitism