This article originally appeared in the National Post. Below is an excerpt from the article.
By Joe Adam George, December 15, 2025
As Jewish families across Australia gathered for the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach, two ISIS-linked Islamist terrorists turned celebration into carnage, killing 15 innocent people and injuring dozens. Authorities identified the suspects in the deadly shooting as a 50-year-old man and his adult son. Several high-profile accounts on X claimed that the duo were of Pakistani-origin.
Coming on the heels of the Oct. 2 synagogue attack in Manchester, U.K., where two worshippers were murdered, the premeditated Bondi Beach terrorist attack confirms a sobering reality: chants like “Globalize the Intifada” are not mere college campus slogans but battle cries thirsting for Jewish blood.
In the immediate aftermath, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese initially issued a tepid statement that failed to acknowledge that Jews were the apparent targets. Only later did he explicitly condemn the violence as “an act of evil, antisemitism, (and) terrorism.” But for too long, the Albanese government has signalled its ambivalence toward threats to Jewish communities. Like Britain’s Labour Party and Canada’s Liberal government, Albanese’s Labor Party turned a blind eye to the legitimate concerns of Israel and their local Jewish communities, choosing instead to acquiesce to their enemies.
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