Global Anti-Semitism, Radicalization, and the Failure to Act
During the News Roundup hour, Sean Hannity examines the global rise of anti-Semitism and radical Islamist violence, drawing parallels between Israel’s security challenges and unchecked immigration policies across the West. Sean is joined by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who provides firsthand insight into Australia’s radicalization crisis following a deadly attack and years of ignored warnings. The conversation focuses on government inaction, media bias, and how ideological blind spots have allowed hatred to fester. Together, they argue that these tragedies were foreseeable—and preventable—if leaders had acted sooner.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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If you want to be a part of the program, I could never for the life of me understand, you know, why on college campuses, Israel has been under fire for decades.
Now, imagine the United States was taking in tens and tens of thousands of rockets every single year from outside countries and forces.
What would you want the U.S. government to do?
Would you want them to selectively fight back or start fighting back and then give in to pleas to stop the genocide when meanwhile the genocide was perpetrated against us?
Nobody's willing to take on extreme, radicalized immigration policies, wide open borders, especially under Biden-Harris Mayorkas.
The same thing has happened for decades now in Western Europe, and they deal with their radical Islamic problem there.
You have Sharia courts in Great Britain, no-go zones, in spite of people saying, oh, that's not true.
Well, we actually sent reporters there in the past.
It is true.
You notice that, oh, Germany has a problem.
Poland has a problem.
In Paris, France, they're shutting down their largest Christmas New Year's festival because of the rise of radical Islamist violence in Paris, and it's getting worse all around the country.
Now, two days after October 7th, let's go to Australia where this horrible incident took place.
15 people murdered and slaughtered.
And what were they saying?
There was a large crowd in Australia.
And here were the protesters chanting, gas the Jews, F the Jews.
Listen, I mean, it doesn't really get any sicker than that now.
Victoria Teblitzki is the daughter of a wounded shooting victim in Australia, you know, says what B.B. Netanyahu warned the prime minister, Albanese, about and said that anti-Semitism has been allowed to fester and the government there did nothing.
And then they gave that ridiculous press conference the other night and they're talking about gun control.
Remember, terrorists, they don't follow gun laws.
Anyway, here's what the daughter of this wounded victim says.
This was not a surprise to the Jewish community.
We warned the government of this many, many times over.
We've had synagogues that have been graffitied, graffiti everywhere, and we've had synagogues that have been bombed.
This is not a surprise to us.
It's not the fact that those two people had a gun.
It's the fact that those two people have been taught to hate.
And it's the fact that hatred has been allowed to fester against the Jewish minority in Australia.
All right, joining us now, our friend Miranda Devine, one of the best columnists in the country for the New York Post.
She has her podcast, Pod Force One is what it's called.
Miranda, welcome back.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
I think you know a thing or two about Australia.
And, you know, what can you tell us?
If I remember right, it was, wasn't it Prime Minister Howard that said, if you're going to go to Australia, you're going to assimilate and become an Australian.
And it was considered controversial at the time.
And since that time, you know, Australia has gotten very lax with their immigration laws.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
And they have allowed people to come into their country, even with radicalized views, and they have tolerated, you know, this virulent anti-Semitism that has been obvious and on the rise for some time.
But tell me if I'm wrong.
No, you're absolutely right, Sean.
And Merry Christmas to you and Happy New Year to you and all your listeners.
Yes, Australia has been, you know, it's an immigrant country like America, but it's just prided itself on tolerance and so on, which worked fine until you had these radical Islamists pouring in during the Syrian crisis.
And we're now, you know, 10 years on and ISIS, there were a whole lot of ISIS aficionados who went off to Syria to fight young men from the Muslim community, which is concentrated in some suburbs in southwest Sydney where these gunmen came from and jihadi brides and the rest of it.
And there's just been a blind eye for the past two years.
Actually, the past 10 years has been a blind eye to this really radical rhetoric about wanting Sharia law around the country, about wanting, you know, saying that women who uncover themselves don't wear the hijab are basically asking to be raped and so on.
And there were a bunch of gang rapes back 20 years ago, but they were nipped in the bud by strong prosecutor, strong judge at the time.
But since then, the will has gone out of Australia because there were so many attacks on those of us who wrote about it.
Those brave prosecutors and judges were pilloried, called Islamophobic, racist, and so on.
And that's been used to silence people and cow them into submission.
And then since October 7, 2023, there's just been unchecked anti-Semitism.
And really, anti-Semitism is just Jew hatred.
And it's been driven by this cohort of now, you know, first generation, sometimes second generation radicalized Muslims.
For many years, Muslims lived in Australia quite, you know, happily, cheek by jowl.
But now, since the radicalization, the rise of ISIS, 9-11, etc., there's a new sort of mode that's crept in that is really disturbing and very, very sort of in your face.
In fact, one of these gunmen, one of these terrorists from this Bondi massacre, has now been found in a video waving the ISIS flag during that march across the harbour bridge where tens of thousands of people sort of, you know, protested against Israel pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, really.
And this guy was waving an ISIS flag.
He was on the radar of Australia's equivalent of the CIA, which is called ASIO, for his ISIS affiliations.
And there were ISIS flags in the car that he and his father drove to Bondi, an hour from those southwest suburbs that are a hotbed of radical imams, radical mosques.
And honestly, for as long as I was working in Sydney, those imams have been pumping out a steady stream of poison.
And, you know, it falls on fertile ground.
It might only be, you know, a handful of people that actually take action, but the attitude towards the Australian way of life is really rancid.
And, you know, Australia, for instance, has topless bathing on beaches like Bondi.
And periodically, there are sort of young Muslim men that come in from the southwest and harass those women and basically treat them as if they're prostitutes.
And so there's really been a clash there underground.
And now on that terrible night in Bondi Beach, it just all came to a head.
It's so sad.
It's so preventable.
It's so tragic.
I've been quoting you all week in the piece that you wrote in the New York Post about this.
I was curious, I know how well known you are in this country because you've been on TV quite a bit.
And you have your own podcast now, and you're obviously one of the best writers in the country, columnists in the country.
You're well known in Australia also, aren't you?
Yes, yes.
Okay, so what is the reaction to you calling out this government for being so tone deaf about what was happening?
Oh, well, you know, I'm called a Jew, Jew lover, Zionist, et cetera.
You know, I mean, it's just the usual.
So we're all called the same thing.
I love that because you believe, you stand up against radical Islamists that believe in convert or die and believe that people should have the right to freedom and self-determination.
And that's their intellectual response pretty lame.
Yeah, it is.
But it's just so typical.
I mean, Australia is even more difficult to put forward the conservative case for anything, or I call it the common sense case for anything, because there's a real left-wing bias in the media and a lot of the loudest voices, particularly at the Australian sort of publicly funded broadcaster, which is a real bearmuth.
It just overtakes every other media.
It's bigger than any other media organisation, a billion dollars a year funded by the government.
It would be like NPR and PBS on steroids being the biggest media outlet in the country.
Can you imagine that?
So that's what happens in Australia.
And unfortunately, that just sets the tone for just, you know, a lot of it is just soft liberal.
There's a lot of pieces that have been written, you know, saying, oh, we're all Australians and, you know, it's really bigoted to call out Islam.
This is about guns.
And unfortunately, very left-wing government federally and also in the state, they've gone straight to gun control.
The Prime Minister has talked about some, you know, ridiculously like right-wing extremists are just as bad.
It was the same situation when after two years of unrelenting Jew hatred, you know, sabotage, torching of Israeli Jewish businesses and synagogues, et cetera, graffiti, horrible graffiti, globalized the intifada signs everywhere.
And finally, the Prime Minister was sort of shamed into appointing an envoy for anti-Semitism.
But at the same time, he appointed an envoy for Islamophobia, which wasn't the problem.
It's completely not there.
It's a made-up phenomenon.
The real phenomenon was Jew hatred.
And it's only today that I'm seeing on X there are now images of globalized the Intifada signs that were ubiquitous around Sydney, particularly around Bondi Beach.
And they've been painted over today, like a little late, as if they didn't know what globalize the intifada means.
We saw exactly what it meant on the website.
Well, I mean, look at where you're talking about.
You're describing what New York is about to become, and I know that's your home base, and that's not good.
It is really chilling when, you know, there's a line in a song Michael W. Smith wrote, when evil calls itself a martyr.
When people, you know, say they want to wipe Israel off the map, or it's in their charter, like Hamas has it in their charter, people don't ever want to report that, but it's in there.
And the Palestinian people voted for that, and October 7th happened.
Or when Iran chants death to Israel, death to America, and Donald Trump says, no, you're not allowed to have nuclear weapons.
And there are people that even say they're MAGA that didn't want Donald Trump to take out those nuclear sites.
Could you imagine if he didn't?
We have about 30 seconds.
Oh, God.
I mean, that's such a great line.
When evil becomes a victim, is that the line?
When evil calls itself a martyr.
Calls itself a martyr.
Wow, that's so good.
Yeah.
Look, Mamdani has just attacked a controversial lawyer who defended al-Qaeda, an al-Qaeda terrorist.
I saw that.
And a radical anti-Israel campus leader to be at City Hall.
I mean, he is surrounding himself with the absolute worst of the worst Islamists.
And you cannot tell me that that is an answer to the same rancid anti-Semitism that has shown its ugly head in New York since October 7.
And it all started on October 7.
It didn't start after the war in Gaza.
In Sydney, outside the Sydney Opera House, when people gathered for a vigil and day after October 7 happened in Israel, that massacre, the candlelit vigil, the mourners there were invaded by a group of Jew haters calling out, as you just showed us, gas the Jews, kill the Jews, you know, F the Jews and globalize the intifada.
Unbelievable.
You know, I appreciate the fact that you call this out.
There's far too few of us, unfortunately, that have the moral clarity to understand evil for what it is.
And the level of ignorance of some people is breathtaking.
It really, and even people that claim to be on our side, usually they're, you know, they're convenient Trump supporters, convenient MAGA people.
You know, they're in and out.
They vacillate.
They're up and down.
And they just, I don't know, there's some bizarre thinking going on out there.
But we need people like you that have the moral clarity and understanding of the era and the time that we live in.
Miranda, appreciate you.
Thank you.
Thanks, Sean.
Happy.
Merry Christmas.
Have a great holiday.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
There's been a lot of discussion.
We've seen a lot of the videos, narco-terrorists coming out of Venezuela and Maduro's regime.
I am arguing they're on their last legs.
There's no way Maduro is going to survive, especially after what Donald Trump did yesterday, and that is order a total blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela.
Now, what they've been doing is they have these unmarked vehicles.
In other words, they're not labeled as tankers, and they're sending oil to Cuba, oil to China, oil to Iran, and all these other countries.
Believe it or not, Iran needs to import oil, which is insane.
And it's not the best oil anyway.
I mean, it needs more refining than most other oil.
But putting that aside, but now the president has taken it a step further, and he has declared the Venezuelan regime a foreign terrorist organization and ordered this oil tanker blockade.
So I would imagine we're probably at some point he's not going to be able to make it or survive.
And Maria Corina Machado is, remember, she got the Nobel Peace Prize.
And when she got the Nobel Priest Prize, impressively she said, well, I really don't deserve it.
Donald Trump deserves it.
I mean, there are like eight regions around the globe where he brought peace to.
Anyway, she is the leader of Venezuela's Democratic opposition, the strongest voice against the Maduro dictatorship.
Sadly, I mean, her life is in jeopardy every single solitary day.
She is a woman of great courage and conviction, a former National Assembly member, founder of the Vente Venezuelan movement.
She believes in free markets and the rule of law and capitalism.
Anyway, Maria, welcome to the program.
Thank you for being with us.
Well, thank you, Sean.
This is such a great pleasure.
I'm very grateful to have the chance to share with you what's happening in Venezuela, our gratitude to President Trump and to the American people.
And my absolute confidence that Venezuela will turn from the criminal hub of the narco-terrorist networks of the world in the heart of the Americas into the energy hub of our hemisphere and the strongest ally the U.S. will have in the region.
And that's going to happen soon.
We have a cohesive, united society.
Venezuela is, you know, it's good people, freedom-loving, hardworking, family-loving people that we have been oppressed by this socialist criminal regime for 27 years.
And finally, we are at the threshold of freedom.
Well, I've got to tell you, God bless you and what you're doing.
I don't think people really understand the risk and the harm's way you put yourself in for this.
You're a woman of great courage.
Here's the saddest part to me.
Maria, Venezuela has so much in terms of wealth and natural resource potential.
And I'll never forget Jorge Ramos, who I don't always agree with, but he did a very good piece.
I think he was with Univision at the time.
And he was in Venezuela, and he actually showed people in what should be one of the wealthiest countries in the world eating out of like garbage cans and off a garbage truck.
And I'm thinking, this is such a shame because the people are put in poverty because of corrupt government.
We see the same thing in Cuba, the same thing in many other countries in Latin America and around the world.
And it's just sad because I feel sorry for the people, the rank and file everyday Venezuelans that are suffering needlessly.
And you can't convince me that Maduro had an honest election the last time.
There's no way he didn't steal that.
But well, everybody knows that we won by a landslide and he was humiliated.
But you know what the saddest part of all, Sean, is?
It's intentional.
They need to have a society in living in misery so that they can stay in power by force.
And that's precisely what they did.
Can you imagine what the pensions are right now in Venezuela?
It's less than $1 a month.
A teacher, teacher earns $1 a day.
So children can only go twice a week to public schools because teachers need to get money from other activities.
So this is a tragedy.
And that's why they have forced migration to a third of our population.
Imagine what the tragedy.
Every single family in our country has been divided because parents have had to leave and leave their children behind just to send some food back home.
So you see children alone in their very humble houses and their grandparents taking care of them, grandparents that are absolutely sick because there are no hospitals and no medicine.
And as you said, this was the richest, wealthiest country in the region.
I mean, we have the largest oil reserves in the world.
But that has one name.
This is socialism.
When you put these criminals in power, they won't live, they won't live, forget about elections.
We won't buy a landslide, but they want to stay.
Why?
Because they need to destabilize the region, and they have turned Venezuela into the state heaven of all the enemies of the Western democracies, especially the United States.
We have the Iranians freely operating in our country that turned Venezuela into satellite of Tehran, only three hours away from Florida.
You have the Russians, you have Hezbollah, you have the drug cartels, the Colombia guerrilla, all aligned in partnership with the regime.
The head of this criminal structure, narco-terrorist structure, is Nicolas Maduro.
And, you know, they formed the Trendiaragua.
They created Cartel de los Soles to destabilize the region and the United States.
They declared a war on the Venezuelan people and they have declared a war on the Western democracies.
Now, President Trump is finally ending this war.
It is about saving lives.
And that's why we and the whole Venezuel population totally support.
And we are very grateful for his vision, his courage, and his strength.
Do you think Maduro can survive long?
Now, I've had sources, and there's a lot of rumors out there that he may go to places like Iran or Russia.
Have you heard similar rumors?
And how long do you think his regime will survive?
Well, Sean, if this were a conventional dictatorship, this would have fallen a long time ago.
You know, the Venezuelan people, we have done everything.
We've protested, we've voted.
You know, we organize underground.
We've done everything.
But it is a criminal structure.
And certainly these regimes that you've mentioned, Iran, Russia, Cuba, they are supporting Maduro because it's an annoyance to the United States.
It's a way they have, as I said, a front beach in the middle, in the middle of the hemisphere.
But certainly, Maduro is now weaker than ever.
And finally, they are understanding that this is serious, that they are counted.
So I do believe that if Maduro understands that he has no way out, his best option is to accept one of these offers to go somewhere else.
But at the end, when you have 90% of a population that already mandated, and I want to insist on this, Sean, because I've heard some people talking about regime change.
This is not regime change.
It is not an elected, legitimate president that is being changed.
No, the people of Venezuela elected Edmundo Gonzales Urukia with 70% of the votes.
And they are staying by force, you know, with repression.
We have almost 1,000 political prisoners, including teenagers, that are being tortured, sexually assaulted.
Women, you know, relatives, parents, grandparents, grandchildren are being detained and disappeared if they don't find the relatives they're looking for.
This is, as I said, state terrorism, only three hours away from the United States.
So I do believe this is a unique moment.
And once Maduro goes, imagine what this will mean, of course, for the Venezuelan people, of course, for my country, because we will see millions of migrants coming back as soon as Maduro goes.
But also for all the countries in the Americas, we will turn this criminal hub, this threat to the national security of the United States into a security shift.
Well, let me ask you, because you had to flee your country because you would have been assassinated.
You would have been killed.
Anybody with a brain understands that.
And if Maduro goes, you would obviously be the most logical and first choice, I believe, of the Venezuelan people.
But I worry for you because there are always going to be these Maduro holdovers that would want to fill his shoes.
I mean, you know that when that moment comes, you're going to have to be very careful and we'll all be praying for you.
And God bless you for having the courage that you have.
Look, Sean, I trust my people.
That's why where we are right now.
People told us it was impossible to carry out a primary and I won with over 90% of the votes.
Then they banned me from running for president.
And we found an alternate candidate and we managed to win again.
And then they said it was impossible to prove the results.
And the whole world saw the actual original tally sheets that demonstrated our victory.
Once again, they say it's going to be very complicated.
You know, that, you know, violence might come and groups will oppose each other.
Look, Sean, believe me, Venezuelan people have fought so hard to finally live in freedom with dignity, to have our children back home.
The Venezuelan people are going to take care that this transition is orderly and peaceful.
And yes.
Listen, I do believe that God created every human being to be free.
And I do support your quest for freedom.
And I wish that for the Venezuelan people and people in tyranny all over the world.
Again, as I point out, you have such enormous courage.
Let me ask you this question.
You got the great honor of getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
And when you accepted it, you said it really should go to Donald Trump.
I don't think I've ever heard, or I can't recall ever hearing anyone accept an award like that and say, really, I'm not the right person.
You picked the wrong person.
Why did you do that?
Because it's fair, because it's the truth.
What we've done is fight for truth, even if it's hard sometimes and painful.
But this is the truth.
And we, the Venezuelan people, are very grateful for what President Trump is doing for years.
Maria Carino Machado, you are a very, very courageous and brave woman.
I wish you God's blessings this holiday season and at all times.
And may you guide the people of Venezuela back into the civilized world and out of poverty and tyranny.
It's really an honor to have you on the program.
We do appreciate your time.
And Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you, and God bless us all.
Thank you.
God bless you.
Yes, ma'am.
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