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<\/a>Sydney\u2019s wake-up call: When antisemitism turns deadly<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nDanny Danon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach has brought a long-simmering fear into brutal reality. Jews gathering to mark the \u201cFestival of Lights\u201d were targeted simply for who they are. This was not random violence. It was a cruel act of antisemitic hatred\u2014an attack on human dignity, and on the values of peace and coexistence that Australia, like all democracies, claims to cherish.<\/span><\/p>\n My heart is with the victims, the injured and their families, and with Jewish communities in Australia and around the world who are grieving and feeling profoundly vulnerable. What happened in Sydney should shock the conscience of the nation and demand more than just words of sympathy.<\/span><\/p>\n This violence did not emerge from a vacuum.<\/span><\/p>\n In the days immediately following the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were murdered and 251 others were kidnapped in plain sight and dragged into Gaza, a Jewish bakery in Sydney was defaced with an inverted red triangle, a symbol increasingly used to glorify attacks on Israelis and Jews. It was an early warning sign. What followed over the next 16 months, as the war against the terrorist organization in Gaza ensued, was an avalanche: arson attacks on kosher restaurants and the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, graffiti, threats and open hate speech directed at Jewish institutions and individuals across Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n The scale has been so severe that the head of Australia\u2019s primary intelligence agency publicly stated that Jew-hatred had become his top concern in terms of threat to life. That is an extraordinary and damning assessment for a country that prides itself on tolerance and social cohesion, and that is home to one of the largest numbers of Holocaust survivors left in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s attack at Bondi confirmed what many Australian Jews have been saying quietly, and sometimes loudly, for more than a year\u2014that they no longer feel safe in the country they believed would protect them.<\/span><\/p>\n Australia\u2019s Jewish population is small, with around 150,000 people in a nation of 27 million, but it is deeply woven into the fabric of Australian life. Roughly a third live in Sydney\u2019s eastern suburbs, including Bondi, the very area that has become a focal point for both Jewish life and antisemitic attacks. Parents now hesitate before taking their children to daycare. Jewish schools operate behind heightened security. Community events take place under the shadow of fear.<\/span><\/p>\n The government has not been entirely blind to this reality. Last year, Australia appointed its first-ever special envoy to combat antisemitism. But appointments alone cannot reverse a toxic, radical trend in which incitement has been allowed to flourish. Chanting \u201cGlobalize the intifada\u201d and \u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201d are not harmless slogans or legitimate political critiques. They are calls that normalize violence, erase Jewish self-determination and dehumanize Jews. They are not expressions of free speech in any moral sense, and they can lead to bloodshed.<\/span><\/p>\n The numbers tell the story starkly. In the year up until Sept. 30, there were roughly 1,600 antisemitic incidents recorded\u2014about three times higher than in any year prior to Oct. 7. These were not just offensive words. They included a childcare center in Sydney that was firebombed and smeared with antisemitic graffiti, and the shocking case of two public hospital nurses dismissed after being filmed boasting that they would refuse treatment to Israeli patients.<\/span><\/p>\n Israel, for its part, expects its democratic partners to do more than express outrage after tragedy strikes. The expectation of the Australian government is clear: to act decisively against antisemitic incitement, to enforce the law without fear or favor and to restore a public culture in which Jews are not demonized or targeted.<\/span><\/p>\n We live in dark days, but as the message of Chanukah shows, light, hope and humanity will prevail. That message must now be matched by concrete action in Australia itself.<\/span><\/p>\n Because protecting Jewish life is not a favor to one community. It is a test of the moral strength of the nation as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Sydney\u2019s wake-up call: When antisemitism turns deadly Danny Danon What happened on Bondi Beach the first night of Chanukah should shock the conscience of the nation and demand more than just words of sympathy. 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\nWhat happened on Bondi Beach the first night of Chanukah should shock the conscience of the nation and demand more than just words of sympathy.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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People attend a ceremony, held at the World Zionist Organization (WZO) building in downtown Jerusalem, in memory of victims of a mass shooting on Dec. 14 during a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach in Australia, Dec. 15, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg\/Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span>Ambassador Danny Danon<\/strong> is Israel\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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