Zionists have wasted little time blaming anti-genocide activists for the horrendous attack on innocent people in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, in order to obscure Israel’s ongoing crimes in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
Anti-genocide protesters, who marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in August, are among those being blamed for the horrific terrorist attack on Sunday. In the front row, left to right: Mary Kostakidis, Gabriel Shipton and Julian Assange. (Consortium News)
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News
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The 15 innocent victims killed in Sunday’s terrorist attack on a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia are being exploited by extreme Zionists in a bid to distract from Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Their memories are being used by the likes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli as well as Australian officials, sections of the media and members of the public.
Instead of putting the blame on the only known perpetrators police have identified so far — the father and son shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram — Zionist extremists are implicating innocent citizens who have dared protest Israeli atrocities.
Addressing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Netanyahu said: “I called upon you to replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve. Instead, prime minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement.”
He said Albanese “did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia, you did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country.”
Netanyahu said he wrote to Albanese earlier this year because his “call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
In response to Netanyahu, Albanese vowed to “eradicate” hatred of Jews. “We will do whatever is necessary to stamp out antisemitism,” he said on Monday. “It is a scourge and we will eradicate it together.”
But how exactly can a government end a vile belief that some people hold? It cannot be legislated or beaten out of them. And how might the anti-semitism of other Australians be responsible for the anti-semitism or other motive of the shooters, about which police have so far said nothing?
The answer is that Netanyahu doesn’t want Albanese to “end” anti-semitism — which he can’t — but to end the protests against Netanyahu’s genocidal rampage in Gaza, which have been falsely labeled anti-semitic.
Netanyahu was joined by Israeli President Issac Herzog, who said: “Time and again we called on the Australian government to take action and fight against the enormous wave of anti-semitism that is plaguing Australian society.”
Sharren Haskel, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, told Sky News Australia “this is what it means” to permit demonstrators to chant “‘globalize the intifada’ … if you let that continue and run in your streets” you are asking for more terrorism, she said, directly linking the protestors to terrorists. Haskel had earlier called anti-genocide protesters in Australia “useful idiots” for Hamas.
Extreme Australian Reactions
Jillian Segal, Australia’s special envoy to combat anti-semitism, issued an alarming statement, blaming anti-genocide protesters for what happened on the beach. She said:
“This did not come without warning. In Australia, it began on 9 October 2023 at the Sydney Opera House. We then watched a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge waving terrorist flags and glorifying extremist leaders. Now death has reached Bondi Beach. These are Australian icons. Targeting them is deliberate. This is not random. It is an attack on Australia.”
The Opera House protest was the first in Sydney against Israel’s response to Oct. 7. Police rejected the allegation that there were chants of “Gas the Jews” at that protest even though that falsehood is still repeated, including by the Israeli deputy foreign minister in her Sky News interview. (Consortium News‘ Cathy Vogan filmed the opera house protest and her video helped police to determine that the chant of “Gas the Jews” was not heard.)
The Harbour Bridge march was a major protest on Aug. 3 this year against Israel’s genocidal Gaza campaign with as many as 300,000 people taking part. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare public appearance at the march.
Alongside him was Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who is in federal court accused by the Zionist Federation of Australia of antisemitism because of her social media reporting critical of Israel.
Segal is trying to actually make as many as 300,000 Australians, including Assange and Kostakidis, in effect complicit with the massacre of innocents at Bondi.
[After the Palestinian Action Group, which organised the Harbour Bridge march, said it was “appalled” by Segal’s comments and warned her against turning the Bondi massacre “into further racist hate,” Segal backtracked, saying she recognized the right to protest “but it’s the hateful speech that we need to consider.”]
Segal had already put forward a set of 49 proposals to Albanese in a draconian “action plan” to combat anti-semitism that would include increased deportations, cutting off university funding and censoring media. According to The Guardian, they include these measures:
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“Strengthening legislation on antisemitic conduct and ‘intimidating protest activity.’
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Tougher screening of visa applicants for antisemitic views, with a focus on addressing visa refusals or cancellations.
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A ‘report card’ on universities’ handling of antisemitism on campus, suggesting blocking government funding if they fail to act.
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Withholding or terminating funding to universities, academics and arts organisations that promote antisemitic conduct or fail to act against it.
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Increasing education of antisemitism in school curriculums.
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Using ‘trusted voices to publicly refute antisemitic views’ on social media.
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A plan to ‘monitor media organisations … to avoid accepting false or distorted narratives.'”
Albanese has not decided yet whether to accept the proposals or not. Rather than sack Segal for her outrageous remark about the bridge march, Albanese is more likely to be propelled by the Bondi massacre to implement them.
Chris Minns, premier of New South Wales state, where Sydney is located, also raised the specter of more censorship on social media, calling for “strong and clear repudiation of antisemitism in all of its forms … whether it’s destructive, horrible acts of violence or … internet posts.”
Media Complicity
Sections of the mainstream media have also blamed anti-genocide protestors for the massacre. Watch this woman in Bondi pushing back against a TV reporter for Sky New Australia trying to generically blame “antisemitism.”
Wow!
This magnificent woman completely shut down a Zionist “journalist” who tried to exploit the attack on bondi beach to push an agenda.
If you see this, you’re a legend ??pic.twitter.com/thFekwhHEs
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) December 14, 2025
The Murdoch-owned Australian blamed demonstrators and universities in an editorial:
“In Australia, the signs of anti-Semitism have been ominous for a long time. It began in the Sydney Opera House forecourt two nights after the October 7 attack. It should have been nipped in the bud then. The ineptitude of officialdom set a pattern for appalling scenes to come.
For more than two years, the unbridled rise of anti-Semitism ran largely unchecked – on the streets, on university campuses, at the demonstration, complete with Nazi slogans, outside NSW parliament, at Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue that was torched.”
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, in a column headlined, “Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like,” wrote that the Bondi terrorists were in essence getting their instructions from anti-genocide protesters. Stephens said:
“Though we’ll probably learn more in the weeks ahead about the mind-set of Sunday’s killers, it’s reasonable to surmise that what they thought they were doing was ‘globalizing the intifada.’ That is, they were taking to heart slogans like ‘resistance is justified,’ and ‘by any means necessary,’ which have become ubiquitous at anti-Israel rallies the world over.
For many of those who chant those lines, they may seem like abstractions and metaphors, a political attitude in favor of Palestinian freedom rather than a call to kill their presumptive oppressors.
But there are always literalists — and it’s the literalists who usually believe their ideas should have real-world consequences. On Sunday, those consequences were written in Jewish blood. History tells us that it won’t be the last time.”
Then there is this unhinged piece by David Frum in The Atlantic, “The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach.”
Nowhere in any of this so-called journalism is it mentioned that these protests didn’t just spring up out of thin air, propelled by pure, irrational hatred for Jews, but instead grew in direct reaction and proportion to the advancing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
When you leave that completely out of the story, it makes it seem like the protests are fueled by pure anti-semitism. And when an horrific act of pure anti-semitism and terrorism then takes place, the two are linked.
Leaving the genocide out of the story not only excuses and covers it up, but falsely portrays opponents of genocide as willing accomplices of terrorists.
This kind of media leaves average people disinformed, so that they associate legitimate and legal protest to what happened in Bondi.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported:
“Amanda Gordon, a member of Sydney’s Jewish community whose relative was killed and son was wounded in the incident, told Haaretz that the incident ‘had to happen. There has been such a lack of leadership and a sort of giving permission for more and more extreme examples of hatred to be marching the streets week after week … there have been protests against the IDF and against Israel in the guise of support for Gazans,’ she said.”
A Warning Against Exploitation From Israel
It took the Israeli newspaper Haaretz to warn that the Bondi atrocity would be exploited by Israeli leaders:
“‘I feel very sad and scared for my community, and fearful of what’s to come,’ said Jess Bricker, who grew up in Australia and now lives in Tel Aviv, and is active in the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together.
She told Haaretz she was incredibly heartbroken by the horrific attack, but cautioned that the pain, trauma and fear the Jewish community could now be ‘exploited” by politicians ‘to enact policies that discriminate against others, while few actual measures will be taken to make Jews in Australia and elsewhere safe.
The Israeli government, in its response, chose to actualize her worries and exploit the attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bashed Australia’s “weak” leadership, and said the country’s policy of recognizing a Palestinian state and its criticism of Israel’s conduct in its Gaza offensive over the past year are what “pour fuel on the antisemitic fire.”
At the same time, on X, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister, Amichai Chikli, shared a post by far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders about the attack, which included the words: “No more terror. No more killings. No more Islam. Enough is enough.”
Questions About the Police Response
Regardless of the diaspora affairs minister’s Islamophobic tweet, an unarmed Muslim man who tackled and, in the same motion, took the rifle away from one of the shooters, has complicated the anti-Islam message. Netanyahu had to single him out for praise while mentioning he was a Muslim.
The humble tobacconist from Syria who has lived in Australia since 2006, said he did not know what came over him to risk his life like that to save other people. In the video above, you see as Ahmed al-Ahmed does not kill the shooter and then leans the rifle against a tree, raising an arm so that police would not shoot him. Except there were no police there to shoot anyone.
Another video runs for ten continuous minutes showing the attackers on a footbridge firing down at the Hanukkah party. During this time presumably someone called the police and gave the exact location. We hear sirens in the background.
Why didn’t police show up to this location during these ten minutes? At the 0:22 mark, a police cruiser is seen driving right by the shooters, seemingly oblivious to what is going on.
One witness said he saw four police officers watching the shooting without returning fire.
The Iran Connection?
Haaretz also offered this tidbit in its reporting of the shootings:
“An Israeli source told Haaretz that in the last few weeks, Israel has received information indicating plans to carry out attacks against Australia’s Jewish community, and it suspects that Iran is the one responsible for the attack.”
In August this year, the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), the domestic intelligence service, blamed Iran for being behind the firebombing of a Sydney Jewish restaurant and a Melbourne synagogue.
“ASIO has now gathered enough credible intelligence to reach a deeply disturbing conclusion,” Albanese told reporters at the time. “The Iranian government directed at least two of these attacks. Iran has sought to disguise its involvement but ASIO assesses it was behind the attacks.”
Of course none of this evidence was ever shared with the public. Australia expelled the Iranian ambassador and broke off diplomatic relations. We might expect to hear something similar after this attack.
Except ASIO says the younger Akram had ties to a local ISIS cell in 2019. This video, which also shows different citizen wrestling the father to the ground, reveals that shooters hung a black ISIS flag in their vehicle. ISIS and Iran are mortal enemies. So it may be unlikely that Iran had anything to do with this.
The Future of Protests
The deliberate conflation of legitimate protest with terrorism to protect Israel from criticism over genocide raises the question of whether the authorities in Australia will allow future protests to be held. It seems unlikely in the present atmosphere.
One idea that meets the moment would be to organize a march that condemns both the Bondi massacre and the genocide in Gaza. Let’s see the authorities try to put a stop that.
VIDEO: “Because this community has politicized this tragedy.”
“This community has politicised this tragedy.”
A Jewish woman grieving murdered members of the Jewish community in Melbourne was removed from a mourning gathering for the Bondi attacks after wearing a keffiyeh, in footage obtained by Sky News Australia.
Michelle Berkon was… pic.twitter.com/vmNXrGbfQE
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) December 15, 2025
Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette, the London Daily Mail and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times. He is the author of two books, A Political Odyssey, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and How I Lost By Hillary Clinton, foreword by Julian Assange.
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This Zionist playbook is plagiarizing the Matrix-Film
Read what AI says about the similarity. “been there done that” yawn,,,
In the context of the film trilogy, Zion is not evil, but it is a complex part of a larger “system of control.”
While the people of Zion are the heroes and protagonists of the story, the films reveal a darker, more philosophical truth about the city’s existence. Here is a breakdown of why Zion’s role is so complicated:
1. Zion as a “Safety Valve”
In The Matrix Reloaded, the Architect reveals that Zion was actually allowed to exist by the machines. It functions as a “quarantine” or a “safety valve” for the roughly 1% of humans who subconsciously reject the Matrix.
The Goal: By giving these rebels a place to go (Zion), the machines prevent them from staying inside the Matrix and causing the entire simulation to crash.
The Cycle: This had happened five times before Neo. Each time Zion grew too large or the “anomaly” (The One) appeared, the machines would destroy Zion and have the current “One” select a few survivors to rebuild it, starting the cycle over.
2. The Morality of the Humans
From a moral standpoint, the inhabitants of Zion are the “good guys.” They are:
Fighting for Freedom: They want to liberate all of humanity from mental and physical enslavement.
Truly Human: Zion represents raw human emotion, culture, and struggle, contrasted against the cold, sterile, and artificial world of the machines.
Unaware of the Trap: For most of the trilogy, the people of Zion believe they are winning a revolutionary war, unaware that their “rebellion” is a pre-programmed part of the machines’ stability plan.
3. Was Zion a “Second Matrix”?
There is a popular fan theory that Zion is just another level of simulation (a “Matrix within a Matrix”), which is why Neo can use his powers in the “real world” at the end of Reloaded.
Official Stance: The films suggest Zion is the actual physical world, but it is a “prison of the mind” because the machines still control the beginning and end of its history.
The Change: Neo breaks this cycle in The Matrix Revolutions by choosing a different path than his predecessors, leading to a truce rather than the total destruction and “reboot” of Zion.
Bravo.
The sick, sad irony is that it is Israel and the Zionist project that continues to put Jews at risk. The small-minded and bigoted just paint them all with the same broad brush, and respond accordingly. It is wrong, and it is their own damn fault. That they are filled with such hubris and a feeling of invulnerability is how they are able to spew their garbage. In a sane world, these people would be forcibly stripped of all their power, their assets seized and redistributed to their victims, and imprisoned. But alas.
If Albanese presses ahead with the full implementation of the Special Envoy Report to Combat Anti-Semitism then all public criticisms of the actions of the Israeli government will criminalised. But people aren’t fooled. They have seen the murderous genocide in Gaza, of hospitals being bombed, of children being starved as an official Israeli government policy, of IDF snipers picking off unarmed women and children, of Israeli civilians being given weapons by the government to hunt down Palestinians in the West Bank, and of Israeli citizens sitting in arm chairs in the surrounding hills of Gaza cheering on the massive Israeli bombing runs. Come the next elections they will vote with their feet against the Albanese government in its endorsement of this blatant criminality.
Typical of that slimy little runt Albanese!
He’s such a cringing coward who can’t stand up to a genocidal psychopathic cold-blooded bully.
Bully’s are cowards, it’s in their nature, and must be dealt with in the most appropriate manner.
From the river to the sea…..
Do Netanyahu and company wish October 7th never happened? Do they wish September 11th never happened? Of course not. Innocents must die to complete the Zionist’s end game. Mr. Gagnon’s comment is spot on.
Thank you, but I am not a Mr. … Lois, not Louis. A very common mistake with my name. I will never understand why though.
We were at home in Bondi when we heard the shots which we at first confused for fireworks. Then came the text messages telling us to turn on the TV. Gunmen were on a bridge on the north end of the beach shooting high powered rifles into a crowd of people celebrating Hanukkah. In midst of the panic and confusion hundreds of people were fleeing the gunfire. Videos posted on X showed blood-soaked bodies on the ground with medics and lifesavers frantically administering CPR to victims. We would later find out that the sister-in-law of a friend was among the dead.
Like all of Bondi, we were in shock and disbelief, but, as this excellent piece points out, the political opportunists immediately used this tragedy to blame those who have been protesting the genocide in Gaza and to silence criticism of Israel.
Although the attacks were largely directed at Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has already succumbed to Australia’s Zionist lobby by continuing to supply weapons to Israel, the real targets are Australia’s Arab and Palestinian communities and those who exercise their right to protest against Israel’s war crimes. We cannot allow this tragedy to be hijacked by craven politicians and the racist and divisive Zionist lobby.
I agree with Jillian Segal on speeding up deportations. If we deport every Zionist in this country we would not have an anti-Jewish problem. Note I put anti-Jewish and NOT anti-semitic.
Considering that Judaism represents 0.4% of our total population this is really overreach.The way Netanyahu is gaslightiing Australians for judging his Genocidal behaviour and blaming protestors for the Bondi Beach tragedy is a typical psychopathic reaction from a true zionist. He is responsible for all of it.
What is the difference, in your mind, between anti-Jewish and anti-semitic? Most dictionaries define antisemitism as something like hostility toward Jews, which seems – to me – anti-Jewish pure and simple.
Without intending to put words into XFretensis’ mouth on their own reasons for making the distinction that they did, “Semite” has historically been regarded as an ethnolinguistic category encompassing many peoples with indigenous origins in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, including those of both Jewish and Arab extraction who traditionally speak Semitic languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic. Consequently, it can be regarded as reductive to circumscribe the application of “anti-Semitism” exclusively to prejudice-motivated actions, behavior, and notions against Jews, particularly when these anti-Jewish activities are committed by Arabs rather than European descendants or other peoples in separate regions of the world (i.e., the Bondi Beach shooting would probably be more accurately regarded as an intra-Semitic crime likely motivated by anti-Jewish prejudice, especially inasmuch as it was planned to broadly target cultural, ethnic, and/or religious Jews in general, such as conflating all or most Jews with Israelis, and not simply particular categories of Jews, such as those who are open, unequivocal proponents of Zionist ideology in general or certain variations thereof like Kahanism – which still would not justify targeting unarmed civilians with violence, to my mind, even if the views they hold might be reprehensible).
Within the nineteenth and early twentieth century European milieu in which the term “anti-Semitism” etymologically developed, it made more sense to apply it specifically regarding persecution of Jewish populations residing there (since that typically involved non-Semitic actors displaying prejudice against Jewish Semites), but there is a plausible case that it is inaccurate or misleading to do so when referring to Arab-on-Jewish crime and hatred without muddying the original definition of “Semite” in ways congenial to certain political interests (e.g., those of some Zionists who want a monopoly on the definition of “Semite” as soley referring to Jews, thereby erasing the interests and identities of other Semitic peoples).
It meant anti-Jewish since it was first used in English. (The OED has an anti-Semite and an anti-Semitic in this sense from 1882.)
The IHRA has a new definition that includes opposition to zionism and/or Israel.
I don’t see the benefit of yet another definition, even if it makes some sense etymologically.
I concede that your historical account of the English etymology of “anti-Semitism” is correct and explains why the term is often used casually in a catchall way to refer to all types of anti-Jewish prejudice regardless of which individuals are perpetrating it (whether they be non-Semites or Semites who are not Jewish), sometimes including by myself, but it makes sense to impose a more nitpicky definition if the goal is trying to “provincialize Europe,” in the phrase of Dipesh Chakrabarty (i.e., trying to avoid the universalization of concepts, terminologies, and frameworks that were first articulated in a specifically European context to circumstances where they may be inappropriate or not adequately convey certain nuances).
At the same time, I do not think anyone is going to be confused by someone making a conscious decision to use the terminology “anti-Jewish” (or some obvious variation thereof, e.g., “Judeophobic”) rather than “anti-Semitic,” not least when they openly point out that they are making a distinction between the two terms.
Re: your comment starting “I concede …” (which doesn’t have a Reply thingy):
I, for one, was genuinely confused by your “If we deport every Zionist in this country we would not have an anti-Jewish problem. Note I put anti-Jewish and NOT anti-semitic.”
Also, you now say “the term [antisemitism] is often used casually in a catchall way to refer to all types of anti-Jewish prejudice”. I don’t know why you say ‘casually’, as if there is, or ever has been, some more formal use in English. Dictionaries define it thus, and that’s how it’s been used since German proto-Nazi Wilhelm Marr and his Antisemiten-Liga. (The German equivalents were briefly used by a fewto mean hostility to Semites, but that usage never caught on, while Marr’s did.)
I am not in favor of deporting Jews (or even Zionists) from Australia, which was stated by the original commenter (“XFretensis”), not myself (i.e., it is not my own alias, but someone else’s). While it is not my place to determine what Australians internally determine regarding the hypothetical denaturalization or expulsion of anyone who is a citizen, legal resident, or non-legal resident of their country (given my status as a US citizen and my belief in Westphalian sovereignty), I am personally not in favor of anything that would be prohibited by the First Amendment here (as clarified in SCOTUS rulings such as “Yick Wo v. Hopkins” and especially “Bridges v. Wixon”) being applied in a foreign society.
As an addendum to amend aspects of my own first comment response that might have been misleading: suspected shooter Sajid Akram appears to have immigrated to Australia from Pakistan rather than any Arab countries, perhaps better classifying him and his son Naveed Akram (the other suspected shooter) as non-Semitic South Asian Muslims whose actions against Jews at a Chabad-organized Hanukkah ceremony at Bondi Beach were launched in probable solidarity with the struggle of Semitic peoples (i.e., Palestinians and other Arabs) based on Islamist religious affinities, all of this under the momentary assumption that the official narrative should be taken entirely or at least largely at face value, of course (rather than something more along the lines of, e.g., the 1950-51 incidents against Iraqi Jews purportedly instigated by covert Israeli agents, as recounted by historian Avi Shlaim in his memoir “Three Worlds”). The point still stands that it is arguably erroneous to identify those acting in solidarity with the struggle of one Semitic people (i.e., Palestinians) against another (i.e., predominantly Jewish Israelis) as “anti-Semitic” rather than “anti-Jewish.”
‘Arguably erroneous’ if you want to argue about what words ‘should’ mean, rather than what they do mean (and in this case, what they have meant since they were first used in English).
There are plenty of English words that don’t mean what they ‘should’. Sky originally meant cloud. Imagine the confusion if weather news, pilots, and so on started using sky this way. The same goes for antisemitism. No one’ll know what anyone means if people start using it for hostility toward Semitic people generally or any particular Semitic people. (And the waters were originally muddied by German antisemite Wilhelm Marr, whose Antisemiten-Liga wanted Jews out of Germany.)
If I may interject, I would assert that Judeophobia is one main branch of antisemitism, and Islamophobia is the other main branch. Each is characterized by irrational fear and hatred of a semitic group (or semitic-adjacent group, in the case of Ashkenazi Jews), BECAUSE they are semitic.
Antizionism, in contrast, is NOT an instance of antisemitism. Not at all. Antizionism is rational, compassion-based, human-rights-based opposition to a racist, xenophobic, genocidal project.
Since zionism is predicated on Islamophobia, it is inherently antisemitic.
Most people would be thoroughly confused to hear the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings were antisemitic in nature. If communication is the goal, I’d assert that the English word antisemitism should be used as it always has been, to mean Judeophobia.
I sincerely doubt that very many casual listeners would be confused to hear that the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings were “Islamophobic” while the 2025 Bondi Beach shootings on Hanukkah were “Judeophobic,” should one make a personal decision to avoid using the term “anti-Semitism” in casual speech entirely (thereby balancing between the ability to communicate summary descriptions of events effectively AND still personally avoiding making the rote “anti-Semitism exclusively refers to prejudice against Jews” framing a further rhetorical arrow in the quiver of those who want to limit discussion of Semites to Jews, whether intentionally in a “No True Scotsman” manner or even more perniciously in the form of an unconsidered assumption).
Islamophobia is ‘irrational fear and hatred of a semitic group’? A great many of the world’s Muslims aren’t Semitic at all, unless you’re using some perverse new definition of that word too. I expect Indonesian victims of Islamophobia would be greatly surprised to find they’re equally victims of antisemitism, as would many others.
Tragic event but least keep in mind how the Israel government has treated its neighbours with contempt,killing many thousands of innocent people,the root of the problem is Israel not any convient group etc to blame.Albanese needs to tell it as it is not what makes Israel happy
The irony here is none of the governments conflating the pro Palestinian protests with antisemitism could care less about the loss of life all the way around. What they care about is maintaining their colonialist project in the Middle East and globally at any cost. Any event that winds up creating fodder for their propaganda machine will be exploited to the max. It may sound cynical to point this out, but the historical evidence speaks for itself.
We will have to be vigilant in pushing back against this manipulation.
Were anyone in the leadership possessed of a grain objective insight, they’d respond to the Jewish Israeli psychopathic Netanyahu supremacist and his cohorts -when you stop your mass slaughter and erasure of Palestinians and their cultural institutions , we’ll address your moronic propagandistic identification of anti semitism with anti apartheid ,anti Jewish Zionist supremacy genocide. Your intentional misnomer is a ruse to exonerate you from your dastardly anti- Jewish conduct allowing you to deceitfully parade as the “eternally infinite” innocent victim. When you exorcise “the victim” from your self identification, you’d have a chance of seeing the profundity of your evil.
Would for sure not be the first time, zionists(!) deliberately kill jewish people in other countries to make them go to settle in what is still called ‘israel’.
And to nourish the victim narrative, again abusing the jewish religion and its people.
Unfortunately blowback is to be expected when a group of people is perceived to have been indirectly involved in easily the most gruesome and massive genocide the world has witnessed over the past 50 years.
Zionist supremacy puts decent Jews at risk.
Cualquier muerte es una perdida irreparable, denunciable y justiciable. Los gobiernos se eligen para proteger a los ciudadanos. Australia buscará a los responsables, sin interferencias de falsas banderas.