Andrew Bolt: Australians are waking up to the suicidal damage being done to our country and rallying to Australia Day

This war talk may jar, but the saccharine tributes from our leaders to Australia Day that I read in this paper made me gag.

Here’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: “On Australia Day, we come together to celebrate everything that unites us.”

Here’s his hand-picked Governor-General, Sam Mostyn: “Our social cohesion and resilience … is alive and in fact, it has been reinvigorated.”

Dear God.

In fact, we’ve never in our lifetime been so tribal and divided, or so under attack from internal enemies of this democracy.

For years now, Australia Day has been marked not by marches of people coming together to “celebrate everything that unites us”, but by people declaring this is “invasion day” and Australia is vile.

“This is war!” screamed race-baiting Senator Lidia Thorpe at an “invasion day” rally three years ago.

“F–k Australia, hope it f–king burns to the ground,” yelled Tarneen Onus-Williams of the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance.

Just last week, an Iranian PhD student working for the CSIRO was arrested for allegedly plotting to throw molotov cocktails at an Australia Day rally on the Gold Coast, telling police he wanted to overthrow this “tyranny”.

This hatred of Australia has now been supercharged by the explosion of hatred for Jews – a symbol of Western civilisation.

For several years already, Australia Day was preceded by attacks on statues of Captain Cook and former explorers and British royals by leftists attacking this “colony”, but this year a sinister edge was added.

Vandals last week smashed a monument in Melbourne’s Flagstaff Gardens to early colonial settlers, painting “land back” and “death to Australia” on the rubble – but this time adding the inverted red triangle, notoriously used by Jew-hating Hamas terrorists to denote a target.

An anti-Israel anarchist group, @forautonomydestroyaustralia, which has vandalised property of companies linked to Israel, then posted a video of the vandalism, adding: “kill all colonisers”, “kill the ‘Australian’ in your head”, “death to the white race” and “glory to all indigenous peoples fighting for self-determination and their land’s return”. This merging of causes is no coincidence.

Nasser Mashni, head of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network behind most of Melbourne’s anti-Israel protests, often wears a lapel badge featuring both the Palestinian and Aboriginal flags, and has claimed “Israel and Australia share … being a shithole, racist, settler colony”. Two years ago Lidia Thorpe yelled “f–k the colony” at King Charles, and threatened last year to “burn down Parliament House” for the Palestinian cause. (She later claimed this was “obviously not a literal threat”.)

The hate-Australia causes are uniting – the Marxists, anarchists, radical Aboriginal separatists, radical Islamists, purveyors of identity politics, worshippers of the primitive and, speaking frankly, losers who cannot build but can destroy.

Many will dismiss them as a fringe, like they dismissed Islamist extremists as a fringe before two such extremists allegedly shot dead 15 people at a Jewish religious ceremony at Bondi last month.

But this hatred nestles on a cushion of ideology, including the identity politics, neo-racism, white guilt, Marxism, noble savage cult and anti-West revulsion preached by the cultural left elite and reinforced by the political left.

Victoria’s socialist left government even permanently scrapped the annual Australia Day parade.

Or take the ABC, which marked this Australia Day with a vicious, obscene and dishonest attack.

Its “Always Was Tonight” special, hosted by former footballer Tony Armstrong, falsely accused white settlers of deliberately infecting Aborigines with smallpox, said anyone celebrating Australia Day was a “dog”, and abused mining billionaire Gina Rinehart for backing the day by jeering she was the “owner of Australia’s biggest hole”.

Yet there’s hope.

Many Australians – “dogs”, according to the ABC – are waking up to this suicidal damage being done to our country and rallying to Australia Day.

A Resolve poll shows support for holding the day on January 26 climbing from 47 per cent three years ago to 68 per cent now.

Support is also rocketing for One Nation, the only party selling Australian flags on its merchandise page while demanding a huge cut in immigration, an end to official multiculturalism and a return to flying just one flag – the national one – rather than two race flags as well.

Oh, you don’t like One Nation?

Then ask why your preferred party hasn’t done the same, because Australia needs saving, and there’s no better day to start than Australia Day.