Wests Honor Killings Blind Spot, Australia Imported Violent Antisemitism and other commentary

Crime desk: West’s Honor Killings Blind SpotIn the West, “an institutional reluctance to name the motive” in honor killings yields disaster, warns Kevin Cohen at The Wall Street Journal. In the Netherlands, a Syrian refugee father and two brothers are“accused of murdering” a girl, 18: They saw “an intolerable breach of family honor” in her “ordinary assimilation into Dutch norms.” Fact is, “Asylum and refugee pathways increasingly admit families” withoutchecking if their social codes match the “host society.” Plus, Western “police departments routinely categorize honor-based incidents under generic domestic-violence headings — often reporting them without reference to ideological motives.” Argh! “We need clear legal definitions, specialized policing, mandatory integration frameworks and a willingness to confront cultural practices that conflict with individual rights.”Hate beat: Australia Imported Violent AntisemitismJews have a “deep history” in Australia of “proud service to thenation,” with no real “historic anti-Semitism,” observes Misha Saul at City Journal.“Murderous Jew hatred is an imported scourge.” After theOct.

7 Hamas attacks in Israel, police in New South Wales “asked Jews to leave the Sydney central business district” because they couldn’t protect them.“Hundreds of men” marched to the famed Opera House “to light flares, threaten and chant against the Jews.” While Australia “has been incredibly successful” at assimilating immigrants, the country ought to “be more selective” to avoid “importing ethnic or religious hatreds.” The solution is “not better barricades”; it is “to prevent the enemies of civilization from entering the gates.” Conservative: Albanese Failed To Curb Jew-hatred“Australians have not come to expect much from Anthony Albanese when it comes to moral leadership,” grumbles Spiked’s Hugo Timms.

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