Sky News Australia host Sharri Markson slams Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his “glaring lack of leadership on antisemitism,” after masked assailants set fire to a Melbourne synagogue early this morning.
“Australia is meant to be the epitome of a successful multicultural society but we have watched that erode before our very eyes as racism against Jews has been tolerated,” Markson says in an editorial.
“The Jewish community has warned repeatedly that antisemitic incidents are exploding. We have begged political leaders and police to take this more seriously.”
Markson gets emotional as she calls Albanese out for saying “Antisemitism is something that has been around for a long period of time.”
“That is abdicating his leadership on this issue,” she says. “[Antisemitism] has been around for thousands of years, but not in Australia it hasn’t. Not in my lifetime.”
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