CAMERON MILNER: Donald Trump needs to grill Anthony Albanese on his inaction on anti-Semitism at G7 meeting

Albanese finally meets Trump tomorrow on the sidelines of the G7, it couldn’t come soon enough for Australia.

But it’s not our steel caught in Trump’s tariff war or future of AUKUS that’s under review that should be discussed, but rather the rank rise of anti-semitism in Australia under Albo.

The two leaders share a huge electoral win on paper. Albanese won 94 seats in the May election, Trump 312 electoral college votes, but that’s where the comparison ends.

Love him or hate him, Trump is a doer. Albo is a plodder. Trump makes calls and Albo wrings his hands, mouths a platitude and looks the other way.

While Trump signed multiple executive orders and got on with delivering, Albanese by contrast has used the last six weeks to schedule less time for Parliament, have a cost-of-living busting lunch with Dan Andrews at a flash Melbourne restaurant and recruited political rat Dorinda Cox.

To be fair Albanese has found the time to belittle his talented Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Albo kept saying the Coalition would deal on the super changes, even as Jim ruled it out.

He also ordered his Treasurer to hold a productivity roundtable even as Jim has been talking nothing but productivity challenges for months.

Albanese will be spared the Zelensky chair moment at the White House, but perhaps Alberta can be Albo’s moment of truth anyway.

Trump could pose the uncomfortable truth that anti-semitism is running rife in Australia under Albo’s watch.

It’s not usual for a synagogue to be fire bombed in any country, let alone Australia, even less so that the elected PM would stay to keep playing tennis with a lobbyist mate as it lay smouldering.

There’s the self-serving work of Tony Burke so frightened by the potential of Muslim Votes in his own electorate he virtue signals by defending local hate preachers calling for Jihad while cancelling the visa of US citizen, Hillul Fuld.

Perhaps Trump could ask why every day since October 7 Penny Wong has spoken out of both sides of her mouth on Israel and Hamas. The sheer lunacy of Wong claiming there needs to a be two state solution now that would only reward Hamas needs to be challenged.

In the midst of Israel doing the global community’s work and dismantling Iran’s nuclear capability we had our Foreign Affairs Minister say she wanted to see more “dialogue” and slapped travel bans on democratically elected members of the Knesset.

Albanese presides over a foreign policy framework designed to undermine and delegitimise long term allies of Australia and the US, like Israel all while playing footsies with China and thinking an NRL club for PNG is pushing back against Sino colonialism towards our Pacific neighbours.

Trump could do well to ask Albo these uncomfortable truths about an administration that has lurched to the Left on Israel and turned a blind eye to the attacks on Jewish Australians.

These attacks range from mobs on the streets in Melbourne, to terror plots, cars, restaurants, houses and synagogues set alight to rallies on the Opera House steps celebrating Hamas’s murder, rape, kidnap and burning of children.

The Islamic extremists don’t see Albanese unequivocally condemn these acts and can’t get enough of Tony Burke and Penny Wong saying that Israel, not Hamas solely is responsible for what’s happening in Gaza.

Albo’s meeting with Trump happens as Iran continues to fire missiles at civilian targets in Israel and Israel continues to decapitate Iran’s ability to unleash a nuclear “holy war” justified by that regime’s extreme Islamic teachings.

Thank goodness Israel has moved to root out Hamas from Gaza, blasted Hezbollah into a back seat for now in Lebanon and can largely intercept the Houthi missiles. Each of these terror organisations are Iranian backed. The October 7 massacre of Israeli citizens was schemed and funded by Iran.

So maybe rather than steel or beef or critical minerals perhaps the real conversation that Trump could have with Albo is why under his watch have we seen allies attacked, petty point scoring by our Foreign Affairs Minister and an outpouring of Islamic extremism and anti-Semitism appear in Australia.

These are the harder conversations to be had because it goes to shared values and just how far the Labor party has drifted under Albanese from the path of Hawke, Rudd and Gillard towards our Australian Jewish community and wider Australian values.

Sure, Muslim voters out number Jewish Australians and electorally are more likely to live in Labor electorates, but if Labor can stand up to the race baiting of One Nation surely we can equally condemn Muslim Votes and their political extremism.

When the Greens political party have senators that chant from the River to the Sea, condone graffiti on the Australian War Memorial and the unfurling a Hamas symbol on our Federal Parliament, why was one of Albo’s first acts of the new term to recruit one of their number to the ALP.

There needs to be a deeper conversation between Trump and Albo, and indeed Australia and the US, about shared values and who our nation’s long-term friends really are.

It’s too convenient for people like Penny Wong to attempt to besmirch our allies by calling out Netanyahu or Trump as representative of the whole nation.

In a world that’s getting a lot more uncertain again, Australia more than ever needs to know who our friends are and where the real enemy lies.

The defence of those bonds to our allies needs to start with a homegrown look at what’s been happening on our own soil and just how safe and included Jewish Australians feel now under the Albanese government.

That’s the conversation Trump should have with Albo in Alberta and it’s the one Albanese should have an answer for not only to the US President, but the rest of us in Australia also.