Aviva Klompas
It was inevitable. The warning signs were unmistakable. The Jewish families who gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney to celebrate Hanukkah were targeted for doing exactly what the holiday represents: showing up openly as Jews.
To be clear, they were not caught in a geopolitical dispute. This was not the result of a policy disagreement or a misunderstanding about Israel. It was the endpoint of a worldview that denies Jewish legitimacy, strips Jews of moral standing and treats Jewish presence itself as provocation.
Members of the public lay flowers at a memorial at Bondi Pavilion in the wake of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach, on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Austr...Read More
The attack was also not sudden or inexplicable. It was the foreseeable result of a sustained failure to take antisemitism seriously before it turned lethal.
For years, Jewish communities in Australia and across the West warned that antisemitism was no longer confined to the fringes. They pointed to rhetoric calling for “intifada” and “resistance,” to protests outside synagogues, to vandalism and arson, to harassment of Jewish students on campus and to marches through Jewish neighborhoods. These were not isolated incidents, but a pattern of escalation.
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