Bondi Beach Atrocity

A floral tribute outside the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham)

"It's Australia's great shame that the worst atrocity to befall Jewish people since the October 7 massacre should have taken place here. Australia now joins all the other western countries that are obviously plagued by militant Islam, notwithstanding the heroics of a Muslim bystander, who wrestled a gun off one of the attackers."

"Regrettably this atrocity was just the latest escalation in the Jew hatred that's lately afflicted my country, starting with local Islamist preachers 'rejoicing' in the October 7 carnage within hours of it taking place; continuing with a mob at the Sydney Opera House screaming 'f--k the Jews', and then 100,000 people marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge yelling 'death to the IDF; and 'globalize the intifada'." 

"As was predicted they've now got their wish. First, there was Jew-hating graffiti, then vandalism of Jewish property, then the fire-bombing of synagogues, and now the Bondi massacre If incitement to violence goes unchecked, soon enough real violence takes place; and soon enough, not just against Jews but against everyone who's not for an apocalyptic Islamic caliphate."

"Yet the response of Australia's leadership to this escalating Jew hatred has been a case study in hand-wringing impotence: no hate preachers have been prosecuted or deported and no hate marches have been banned [as is possible under existing laws], even though these have gone way beyond any possible exercise of freedom of speech or expression of protest into acts of harassment and intimidation. Even now, the prime minister and the New South Wales premier are claiming that the remedy to Jew hatred is even tougher gun laws [even though Australia's are already among the toughest in the world], rather than an all-out effort to counter the Islamist extremism that justifies 'death to the infidels."

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott 

Floral tributes outside Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham)

 

In the wake of the Australian pogrom of December 14, and the world's attention focused Down Under, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made a number of verbose, sanctimonious speeches of standing with Australian Jews, of virulent antisemitism not being tolerated, of the need to tighten Australia's gun laws since the Islamist terrorists bought their four rifles and the ammunition to go with them legally, as they then proceeded on their Bondi Beach atrocity to kill 15 innocent people, from children to the elderly -- because they were Jewish. 

 

Of course this all hearks back to October 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas slithered in their thousands out of Gaza to embark on a savage killing spree complete with rape and torture, triumphantly videoing the carnage they indulged in to be shared by the world at large as a documentation  of their freedom-loving credentials. The mutilation of helpless victims, burning alive entire families sheltering in their homes, taking children and the elderly hostages, all demonstrations of the courage of 'oppressed' people.

 

When news of a Muslim man on the scene of the Bondi Beach attack spontaneously risking his life to save Jews from death and sustaining serious injuries in the process reached the attention of Palestinians and other Muslims, a deluge of hateful messages flowed toward Ahmed al Ahmed -- recuperating from surgery in hospital -- damning him for his heroism. Virulent Islamist antisemitism was brought to Australia as it was throughout the Western world with the immigration, refugee intake and illegal migration of Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East.

 

Family carry the coffin following a service for Bondi Beach mass shooting victim 10-year-old Matilda, whose last name is being withheld at the request of her family, in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham)

 

Their rabid Jew-hate which has led to years of escalating intimidation, threats and slander against Australian Jews fell on a receptive audience of native Australians for whom their own brand of traditional antisemitism has often been on display. One can assume that Australia's most famous export, actor and producer Mel Gibson's brand of Jew hate (and that of his father) represents the norm among a proportion of the population reflecting the average Australian. However, the level of outright raging violent threats culminating in the Bondi Beach massacre was pure Islamofascism.

 

Not one word approximating Islamism, Islamic terrorism, jihad or Muslim violence issued from the mouths of any current Australian government figures at any level. It simply isn't done. Too embarrassingly racist -- does everyone agree that Islamism represents a race? The horror of being singled out as Islamophobic; to be avoided at all cost. And if that cost is the moral underpinnings of a civilized society, the principle of equality and justice, well so be it.

 

Australia is grieving the loss of 15 of its citizens of a wide range of ages, from a ten-year-old child to two rabbis, athletic young men, husbands and wives, Holocaust survivors. Another forty people in attendance at the celebration of the first day of the Festival of Lights -- the ancient Hanukkah holiday memorializing Jewish resistance of forced 2nd Century Hellenization by Seleucid Greek conquerors -- were wounded, among them some seriously injured by the relentless gunfire targeting Australian Jews.

 

Do Jews still have a place of residence and security in Australia? Not that Australia is much different than Canada, for example, much less Belgium, France, Britain, Ireland, Germany in being captured by a large and growing infiltration of Muslims within their populations. 'Political' Islam has swept the globe. It may not reflect the greater mass of faithful in Islam, but it has demanded the world's attention, as the viciously violent minority methodically goes about its task of conquest, fundamentally in obedience to Islam's edict setting out the primary obligation of its faithful.

 

The world's oldest and most prevailing hatred of a people -- antisemitism -- marks Jews as the initial target by the Islamist horde of predators searching out their victims, including other Muslims, throughout the world. Yet it is not only Jews that are marked for eradication as representing Islam's disfavour, but all those whose other forms of  religious devotion are viewed by Islamists as insulting to Islam -- the sole religion that matters in the world. 

 

Christians the world over, Hindus and Buddhists, are all in line for the very same treatment now being meted out to Jews. Yet the world fails to act. 

 

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