The Bondi Beach Attack Is Worse Than You Think

More on the massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach by two Muslims, and the anti-Israel atmosphere created by the Albanese government that makes such things possible, can be found here: “Australia’s ‘Hanukkah Massacre’ Is Worse Than You Think,” by Daniel Pomerantz, Algemeiner, December 16, 2025:

Chabad’s “Hanukkah by the Sea” event near Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, turned into a bloody massacre on Sunday: 15 murdered and dozens more injured, as of the latest update.

Far from being an isolated incident, this nightmarish display of terror is only the latest symptom of a dangerous and systematic attack by the Australian government against its own Jewish population.

According to news sources, the terrorists were Sajid and Naveed Akram: a father and son of Pakistani origin who had pledged allegiance to ISIS shortly before carrying out their antisemitic bloodbath.

In one rare bright spot, Ahmed Al Ahmed, an immigrant from Syria, heroically risked his life to disarm one of the terrorists, likely saving many innocent lives in the process. Al Ahmed survived several gunshots and is recovering in hospital.

Before Ahmed Al Ahmed went into action, an elderly Australian Jewish couple, Boris and Sofia Gurman, managed at the very outset of the attack to wrest a gun from one of the gunmen, only to be shot dead when he grabbed another gun to kill them. Their heroism has, for obvious reasons — “Muslim saves Jewish lives” — not received nearly the same attention as Ahmed Al Ahmed.

In the aftermath of this modern day pogrom, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issued a statement in which he made no mention whatsoever of Jews, antisemitism, Hanukkah, Islamic extremism,terrorism, or ISIS.

Albanese referred to the massacre merely as “shocking” and “distressing,” and said that his thoughts were with “every person affected.”

Within hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu utterly excoriated Albanese, accusing him of “pouring fuel on this antisemitic fire,” and noting that he had sent Albanese a letter last August, warning of the very conditions that had brought about this attack, a warning that had gone unheeded.

In tandem with the Israeli Prime Minister’s vigorous public scolding, Albanese held a press conference, in which he finally condemned the Bondi attack as antisemitic.

However, Albanese continued to avoid any mention of Islamic extremism, despite Australian law enforcement having already publicly confirmed that the terrorists had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror organization (ISIS), and that they were carrying an ISIS flag in their vehicle.

According to reports, the Mossad had been warning Australia regularly for months about terror plots against the local Jewish community. Local police deny there were specific warnings about this particular attack, but Israeli leaders from all sides of the political spectrum countered that Australia had ignored “countless warning signs.”

Australia’s national failures are reminiscent of the Dutch pogrom of November 2024, in which local Muslim attackers violently hunted Israeli soccer fans through the streets of Amsterdam — after Dutch police ignored urgent warnings from Israeli intelligence.

The conditions for a similar massacre are currently shaping up in New York City, where the incoming mayor responded to a highly threatening antisemitic protest by accusing the local Jewish community of “violations of international law.” (I previously addressed both topics in depth at The Algemeiner).

The antisemitic protest which the soon-to-be mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, defended as upholding international law, was held just outside the Park East Synagogue. Inside the synagogue, an Israeli group was holding an informational session for those interested in making aliyah to Israel. Just outside, and blocking the entryways to the synagogue, stood a group of people screaming their homicidal hatred of Israelis and their desire to see it disappear, to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. They shouted, inter alia, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “globalize the Intifada” — a call to kill Jews everywhere — and “death, death, death to the IDF.”

For the past two years since the October 7 massacre, not only has Australia seen a massive rise in violent antisemitic attacks, but local Jewish leaders have consistently objected to the government’s permissive atmosphere toward attacking Jews, such as failing to apply appropriate penalties and needed protections….

People engaged in antisemitic scrawls on synagogue walls, or screaming their hatred of the Jewish state, or beating up individual Jews, do not come out of nowhere. Their hatred of Israel is in sync with the palpable dislike of the Jewish state that Prime Minister Albanese and his Foreign Minister Penny Wong exhibit.

The Albanese government’s failure to properly assign blame for the Bondi Beach massacre to the ideology of Islam, so that the public is lead astray into thinking such attacks are merely the handiwork of a handful of “extremists” who fail to understand their own peaceful religion, needs to be corrected. However, given this government’s failure to heed warnings coming from Mossad about numerous planned attacks on Jews, and given Albanese’s inability, in the statement he released just after the Bondi Beach attack, to mention even once the words “Jews, antisemitism, Hanukkah, Islamic extremism, terrorism, or ISIS,” it should be clear that Anthony Albanese is not the man to do it.

This astonishing lapsus by Albanese unfortunately demonstrates that he can’t allow himself to see Islam as it really is; he prefers to believe that the religion is a peaceful one, and only “extremists” have carried out these many terror attacks. He needs to be reminded that almost 50,000 of these terror attacks by Muslims have been carried out around the world since September 11, 2001, and that is not because the perpetrators misunderstood the faith of Islam, but rather, because they understood it all too well, and were ready and willing to carry out attacks so that, as Muhammad said in a hadith, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” That is a command that every leader in the Western world, including the hapless Anthony Albanese, should commit to memory.

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