How Iran fuels Jew hatred amongst Western populations

Did Iran first foment anti-Jewish sentiment in Australia or were some of their people already primed to express angry feelings towards Jews, given just the slightest encouragement to do so?

Perhaps both are true. As more information is revealed, it’s been discovered that Iran was behind the fomenting of hate, directed at Australia’s Jewish community, through its strategy of using locals to target Jewish businesses and sites. The devastating result has been the realization that Jews are not even safe Down Under.

Two such recent examples were the burning of a Melbourne synagogue in December 2024, while people were inside, and the arson of a Sydney kosher restaurant, just shortly after the first incident. 

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) was able to actually track funding connected to the synagogue fire. Both of these attacks had been directed by the government of Iran, and that is was the reason their ambassador to Australia was expelled.

But how much of this unrest is the work product of Iran and how much can be attributed to local Australians, who may have their own personal aversion towards the Jews who live among them?

It’s hard to discount the many protests, attended by massive numbers on Australian streets, unless the majority of those attending were paid protestors who were there as part of an intimidating visual effect campaign to frighten local Jews. 

According to a recent op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, it is “alleged that Iran is behind the flames in Melbourne and Sydney. It is no longer just about local bigots or angry mobs feeding off social medial. This is about a hostile state actor deliberately stoking hatred of Jews and Israel thousands of miles from its borders.”

If true, it wouldn’t be the first time they’ve operated in this manner. In 1992, it was uncovered that they were behind the Buenos Aires Israel Embassy bombing. Then, again, in 1994, a Jewish community center was struck, killing 114 people. 

But, on some level, the use of local Western populations, in Iran’s war against Israel, was predictable since they have failed to wreak destruction on the Jewish homeland despite several attempts.  

Now that their nuclear program has been set back, through the retaliatory strikes of both the U.S. and Israel, the next best thing is to foment hatred and unrest throughout Europe, Australia and other Western locales, helping to create the impression that Jews are no longer wanted there.

Although this may be far from the sentiments of most Westerners, the surrounding hatred has an effect, impacting people to be skittish about openly supporting Israel or the Jewish people.

Sadly, most people lack the courage and bravery that is demanded in order to buck societal trends, and that is what a hostile country, such as Iran, counts upon.

Western populations would be wise to recognize that they are easy prey, able to be manipulated even without their knowing. They should also be aware of others, in their midst, who, without much instigation, have the proclivity to openly express their latent hostilities towards Jews.  

For them, jumping on the Iranian bandwagon of antisemitism is not a stretch, but an inbred inclination of what has been quietly contained during a time when their real feelings were best left unsaid.

In this two-pronged enemy, of antisemitic locals and Iranian flamethrowers, Westerners must alert themselves to the manipulative deception which is being employed by Jew hating governments that are not above stooping to the exploitation of pre-existing antisemitic tendencies.

If this has successfully been done in Australia, it will, undoubtedly, spread throughout many other Western countries that remain unsuspecting of what is actually taking place in their homeland. Among the many imports, sent to other nations, hatred is one of the most effective, especially when it masquerades as a home-grown variety.

Psychologically, it gets people thinking about why Jews may be persona non grata. The problem is that this diabolical strategy, of turning local Western populations against the Jews, who live among them, will end up backfiring on the entire country, because no one will be safe. 

“Security forces in Britain and Sweden warned last year that Tehran was using criminal proxies to carry out its violent attacks in those countries,” and that was with British local authorities having thwarted some 20 Iranian-linked plots that had been planned. 

But Sweden and U.K. are not where it stops. Another 12 countries have also come forward to complain about a rise in assassination, kidnapping and other plots planned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Of course, it will come as no surprise to learn that Iran is denying these reports. But when funds can be traced back to them, and mobile phones further prove the links, the evidence is irrefutable. 

While it’s been reported that locals, who carry out the attacks, don’t necessarily know who has initiated them, since they don’t take their orders directly from the Iranian leaders, they are, nonetheless, guilty of cooperating in the carrying out of heinous, ethnically-motivated crimes.

Once the damage is done, the vulnerable Jewish community is left to wonder just how many of their fellow countrymen are against them, and that is part of the psychological impact in this war against local Jews in Western countries.  

The uncertainty accomplishes the fear and insecurity, meant to damage the trust which Jews have had for decades. No longer can they take for granted that they are safe in the country which has been their home and probably the home of previous generations of their families.

Now, they have to begin the frightening process of wondering just how much time they have left in a country which is turning against them. For those with young children, it becomes even more complicated, because the promise of a good future cannot be guaranteed.  It’s the reason that there has been such a significant rise in Aliyah over the past few months.

Ironically, it is the cruel enemy of the Jewish people who will be the impetus for returning them to their homeland, but while that may be a positive, there are also severe consequences for nations who turn against their Jewish population. Sadly, they stand to be the big losers as they reap the curse they allowed to take place in their land against the Jewish people.