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Melanie Phillips 12-14-25
"We all knew this would happen again. They all knew it would happen again. They did nothing to stop it.
"In a horrific terrorist attack on Jews celebrating the first night of Chanukah in Australia on Sydney’s Bondi beach, at least 12 people have been murdered, including children and a rabbi, and at least 30 others wounded.
"Details of the attack are still emerging. One of the two terrorists, pictured here randomly shooting at Jewish celebrants from a bridge, was a 24 year-old man named as Naveed Akram who was shot and is now in custody. The second gunman was shot dead. A man who was videoed disarming one of the shooters with his bare hands and was shot by the second terrorist was named Ahmed al Ahmad.
"Later, it was reported that a number of suspicious items had been found near the bridge where the gunmen opened fire, including an improvised explosive device.
"This atrocity is unspeakable. Once again Jews have been left full of grief, full of anguish, full of rage after yet another atrocity taking innocent Jewish lives simply because they were Jews.
"Bondi beach has been the most open symbol of Australia’s most open society — an icon of its great outdoors, of sunshine and health, of happiness and innocence; a place where you take children to enjoy themselves, as so many were taken to the Chanukah menorah lighting on the beach.
"Now Bondi beach joins the grim litany of places that have become synonyms for depraved attacks on Jews — Manchester’s Heaton Park synagogue where two Jews were killed on Yom Kippur, Park East synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side which was targeted by a violent mob held back by police, and the October 7 2023 massacres in Israel, whose scenes of gunmen roaming around looking for Jews to pick off was chillingly replicated on Bondi beach.
"Since the October 7 pogrom, there’s. been a global onslaught against Jews. Jewish artists have been cancelled, Jewish students intimidated on campus, Jewish patients in Britain treated by nurses sporting a “Palestine” lapel pin — the latter-day equivalent of the swastika.
"In restaurants in London, New York, Athens and elsewhere, Jewish diners have been harassed. In July 2025, an Israeli-owned restaurant in Melbourne was stormed by anti-Israel protesters. Today, hours after the Bondi beach massacre, marchers in the British Midlands city of Birmingham marched behind a banner demanding“intifada revolution” and chanting “globalise the intifada”. The Bondi beach massacre is exactly what these slogans mean.
"Since October 7 2023, antisemitism has been roaring out of control in Australia. Synagogues have been firebombed and vandalised, vehicles set on fire, Jewish businesses boycotted and hateful graffiti sprayed on Jewish homes and schools.
"Israeli officials have given the Australian government countless warnings about rampant Jew-hatred in Australia and where this would almost certainly lead. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, merely responded by pouring petrol on the flames.
"Astonishingly, in his original statement after the after the Bondi beach atrocity he called the attack “shocking and distressing” but failed to mention antisemitism or that that the target was a Jewish event. He said that “antisemitism led to terrorism” and “targeted the innocent” only after protests by Australia’s Jewish community.
"At a press conference, a reporter asked him whether he had taken the threat of antisemitism seriously, since his record included recognising a “State of Palestine,” his senior ministers had refused to visit the October 7 massacre sites in Israel, and he had created an anti “Islamophobia” envoy alongside one for antisemitism.
"To which Albanese unblushingly declared that he had taken antisemitism very seriously. It’s doubtful whether he even understands what that means.
"After Australia recognised “Palestine,” Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a rabbi and emissary with the Chabad Jewish religious outreach organisation, sent a letter to Albanese calling on him to reverse the decision and urging him not to betray the Jewish people.
"Rabbi Schlanger was murdered on Bondi beach.
"Along with numerous notorious antisemites on social media, other political leaders have been busily laundering themselves all day by shedding crocodile tears over the Bondi beach atrocity.
"Britain’s prime minister Keir Starmer eventually mentioned the a-word when he posted on X :
"The news that the Bondi beach attack was an antisemitic terrorist attack against Jewish families at a Chanukah event is sickening
"and then posted further:
"Antisemitism has no place in our society. We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, today and every day.
"But it does, and he doesn’t. Faced with the eye-watering and demonstrably ludicrous lies being promulgated about Israel — that it caused starvation and famine in Gaza, that most of those it was wantonly killing in the war were Gazan civilians and children, that it was committing genocide and ethnic cleansing — any civilised political leader would have stated that these were indeed all lies and should not be believed, and were being put out by the enemies of civilisation itself.
"Instead, along with Albanese, Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney and French president Emmanuel Macron, Starmer recycled exactly the same lies that were inciting Jew-hatred by casting the Israelis — and by extension, all Jews — as the most evil people in the world. When Starmer also recognised “Palestine”, Hamas actually thanked him and gloated that this proved the October 7 attack on Israel had worked.
"If Starmer, Albanese et al really wanted to protect their Jewish communities — along with everyone else — against Islamist attack, they would ban the Muslim Brotherhood. Which they steadfastly refuse to do, inciting against Israel instead.
"These leaders are beyond despicable. They vilify and act against Israel for daring to defend itself while consistently siding with the truly genocidal Palestinian Arabs, funding, sanitising and inciting their murderous attacks. They have been fanning the flames of rampant Jew-hatred within their own domestic Muslim communities, inciting hatred of Israel and Jews among the rest of their own societies, and allowing hate marches to chant on their streets for the murder of Jews on the grounds of freedom of speech.
"The UN has also contributed to this incitement. In May, Tom Fletcher, a UN humanitarian coordinator, told BBC Radio 4:
"There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them."
They "didn’t. It was a foul lie. It inspired baseless hatred of Israel and all who support it. And the mainstream media, which amplified this and countless other such lies and distortions defaming and delegitimising Israel and never correcting them when they were also shown be false, have acted as the propaganda arm of Hamas and so have this Jewish blood on their hands, too.
"Antisemitism is always with us. The most that Jews can hope is that a civilised society will excommunicate it from the public space. Instead, all the guardrails against against Jew hatred have been dismantled. As a result, antisemitism has been normalised.
"On social media, the defamation of Israel and Jews has been fuelled by Iranian, Russian, and Chinese state-linked bots, which have exploited Gaza as a means of destabilising western societies. These regimes have all understood how easily such lies could colonise the minds of so many in the west because they’ve been primed by an entire culture to believe them.
"This will be the undoing of the west itself, the real target of the Islamists and others in this axis of evil.
"In Britain, America and elsewhere, there will be many public ceremonies tonight to light the first candle of the eight-day Chanukah festival. Jews everywhere should go to these ceremonies. As Chabad said in a defiant statement after the murder of its emissary on Bondi beach:
"The response to terror is not retreat, but resolve."
"Chanukah celebrates the Jewish rebellion in 167 BCE, led by the Maccabees against the oppression of the Greek Seleucid empire, that re-established the Jewish kingdom of Judea.
"Every civilisation that’s tried to destroy the Jews has disappeared. The Jewish people has survived them all. Despite the centuries of exile, vilification, persecution, extermination and genocide, we are still here. The Jews are the eternal people. The Bondi beach atrocity was a shock, but not a surprise. In every generation they rise up against us. They will never defeat us."
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