Concert for Hope & Unity Cancelled in Australia Because Greek Chorus Won't Sing With Jewish Choir

"A Concert for Hope and Unity" which was to take place next month in Sydney, Australia to benefit the victims of the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre has been cancelled.

Would you like to know why the concert was cancelled?

Because the Australian Hellenic Choir refused to share the same stage with the Sydney Jewish Choral Society. They, ahem, "politically objected."

The proverbial Greek chorus cannot bring itself to help the innocent victims of an act of terrorism because they are Jews and will not share a stage with their fellow choir singers because they are Jews.

The Australian Hellenic Choir does not see members of the Sydney Jewish Choral Society as human beings. So long as this attitude prevails, there can be no hope and no unity.

I wish I were surprised. After all, the greatest surge of anti-Semitism since the end of WWII took place after Jews were massacred on October 7th, including in Australia. So, why would Australia care about the murder of Jews on their own soil any more than they would about the murder of Jews in Israel?

This is yet another example of Jews being expelled from polite society for being Jews. Of course, this is hardly confined to Australia. We are seeing it in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. including the stabbing attack today in the Golders Green section of London.

It is difficult to have much in the way of optimism because things will get worse for Jews the world over and it will likely take years, perhaps decades and maybe even centuries before it gets better.