A liberal Western country with strict gun laws and a penchant for giving Islamists exactly what they want ended up clearing up bodies:
One of the survivors of the terror attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration said four police officers just “froze” during the 20-minute rampage on Sunday that killed 11.
Eyewitness Shmulik Scuri said he was with his family when the two suspects began firing at the crowd of worshippers from a nearby bridge.
“For 20 minutes. They shoot, shoot. Change magazines. And just shoot,” the witness told reporters.
“Twenty minutes, there was four policemen there. Nobody give fire back. Nothing. Like they froze,” he said of the slow response. “I don’t understand why.”
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Jews in Canada were already living in a climate of fear, now Hanukkah celebrations will be overshadowed by terror.
Robert Gregory, the CEO of the Australian Jewish Association, put it plainly in a statement: “What happened tonight is a tragedy but entirely foreseeable.”
How was it foreseeable? Because Australia — just like Canada — has seen an explosion of antisemitism. In both countries, Jewish schools, businesses, and synagogues have been attacked. Pro-Hamas/anti-Israel protests are commonplace.
The leaders of both countries were warned that recognizing a Palestinian state would escalate Jew hatred.
“By effectively demonizing Israel, (Mark Carney) opened the floodgates for more antisemitic acts in Canada,” warned Jack Mintz in the National Post.
But Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Mark Carney went ahead anyway, recklessly, without adequate thought for the Jewish people, and with absolutely no regard for their safety.
Their sanctimonious posturing merely added to the festering hate that is staining both countries.
It was less than two weeks ago that Jewish leaders from the world’s seven largest diaspora communities — including Canada — convened a task force in Sydney because of the rising tide of global antisemitism.
The group warned that “the sharp spike in antisemitism seen in Australia, including foreign state-linked attacks, is part of a dangerous global pattern threatening Jewish communities and democracies worldwide.”
In a statement, Marina Rosenberg, the senior vice-president for international affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, said, “What is happening in Australia is not an exception; it should be a wake-up call to communities worldwide.
“Across North America, Europe and Latin America, Jewish communities are reporting the same pattern of unprecedented harassment, threats and incitement. When synagogues can be firebombed in Melbourne and Jews threatened and attacked in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Toronto, this is a threat not only to Jewish safety but to democratic stability itself.”
That warning was given only 12 days ago, but Jews in Australia — just like Canada — have been alerting governments about the dangers of rising antisemitism for over two years and nothing has been done.
In the ADL statement, Richard Marceau, general counsel for Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said, “Here in Canada, extremists have escalated their hatred and violence: openly glorifying Hamas ‘martyrs’ on our streets, attacking Jewish and pro-Israel students at events, harassing Jewish families outside their homes, and targeting synagogues and other Jewish institutions.
“For these extremists, this was never only about Israel’s actions in Gaza; it is about instilling fear and sowing division within our society. Canada must stand with its international partners in confronting this threat — not only to counter antisemitism, but to safeguard the future of our democratic way of life for all people.”
Since the massacre of October 7, 2023, both countries have been swamped by Jew hatred.
A new report from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) reveals antisemitic incidents are at record highs.
“Arson attacks against synagogues, preschools and other Jewish institutions, are higher than in any previous year on record,” says the ECAJ.
Here in Canada, B’nai Brith reported earlier this year: “Antisemitism in Canada has reached perilous, record-setting heights.”
How many wake-up calls do political leaders, at all levels in Canada, need before they act? Must Canada experience its own version of Bondi Beach before Carney decides that enough is enough?
In a statement on X, Carney made the usual points about being horrified and not bowing to terrorism.
“Horrified by the antisemitic terror attack that has stolen the lives of 11 people at a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach today in Australia,” he said. “Canada stands with the people of Australia and Jewish people everywhere in sorrow, and determination never to bow to terrorism, violence, hatred and intimidation.”
He added, “May we all support and strengthen that resilience to protect our Jewish communities and to ensure more fundamentally that all people can thrive in every aspect of our society.”
If Carney truly wants to protect our Jewish communities he first needs to recognize the grip antisemitism has on this country and its scope. He must then resolve to use all means at his disposal to tackle it. Taking leadership on the issue will empower other political leaders, as well as police, to take appropriate action.
Tackling the evil of antisemitism first requires that political leaders don’t just ignore it — as they have been doing.
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Less than 48 hours after the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel, crowds in Sydney reportedly gathered chanting “Where are the Jews?” with some allegedly yelling “Gas the Jews.” That this could occur in Australia — a country with no historical grievance against Jews and no Middle East conflict on its soil — should have set off blaring alarm bells.
It did not.
Australia is not an outlier. The same pattern has repeated itself across the West, including here in Canada: masked demonstrations openly celebrating terror, Jewish institutions requiring police protection, and even violent attacks. Antisemitism is no longer whispered at the margins. It is shouted, normalized, and increasingly indulged.
History tells us otherwise that words can lead to violence.
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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.
The rise of Jew-hatred in Australia in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks in Israel should have been a wake-up call for its authorities. In Sydney, pro-Palestinian marchers chanted “F*ck the Jews” just a couple of days after the attacks. A synagogue was firebombed in Melbourne. The home of a Jewish community leader was vandalized and burned. Two nurses were filmed threatening to kill their Israeli patients. Australia even repatriated its own ISIS brides and welcomed pro-Hamas activists, while banning supporters of Israel, including a sitting Israeli parliamentarian.
When Australian intelligence revealed that Tehran was recruiting criminals and organizing antisemitic attacks in the country, the Albanese government was initially reluctant to confront the Iranian regime. It was only after coming under immense pressure that Canberra expelled the Iranian ambassador and officially labelled the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.
However, Albanese’s hostility toward Jews and Israel persisted. In a stark departure from its historically pro-Israel stance, Canberra recognized Palestinian statehood in September 2025. Albanese claimed the move would help end the “cycle of violence.” But events at Bondi Beach make clear that the “cycle of violence” had already arrived on Australian shores, and the notion that symbolic recognition would placate pro-Hamas elements hostile to Jews and the West was always delusional.
Across the West, governments that tolerated anti-Jewish rhetoric and extremist narratives have seen their social cohesion and public safety severely deteriorate. Once joyous gatherings — Hanukkah celebrations, Christmas markets, and New Year’s Eve events — have become vulnerable targets for jihadists.
With jihadi terror investigations in France reaching a record high, Paris was forced to cancel its iconic New Year’s Eve celebration on the Champs-Élysées this year, citing security fears, after decades of safe celebrations. In Germany, five Islamist suspects were arrested last week for allegedly plotting to ram a vehicle into a crowded Bavarian Christmas market, intending mass carnage. Over the weekend, the FBI disrupted a potential terror attack after arresting four members of a radical pro-Palestinian group who were planning coordinated New Year’s Eve bombings in Los Angeles.
The situation in Canada is no different. Synagogues and Jewish schools have been repeatedly victimized as antisemitic incidents surged over 670 per cent. The RCMP reported an incredible 488 per cent increase in terrorism-related charges between April 2023 and March 2024, driven largely by ISIS-inspired youth radicalization. Even CSIS warned it was “increasingly concerned” about ISIS-linked attacks.
Yet, CSIS director Dan Rogers elected to issue an ill-advised apology last week to placate the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) for failing to mention the need to address “violent Islamophobia” in his annual remarks. In a taxpayer-funded federal report on Islamophobia released earlier this year, Canada’s controversial Islamophobia czar Amira Elghawaby claimed that “jihad” was a personal inner “struggle,” while dismissing legitimate concerns about Islamist violence as right-wing conspiracy theories.
(Sidebar: and that's not all.)
Like Australia, Canada’s recognition of a “State of Palestine” was widely criticized by Jewish communities and experts who warned it would embolden extremists, not satiate them. Nonetheless, Ottawa pressed ahead, embracing symbolism over substance, electoral expediency over security, virtue signalling over responsible policy.
The Bondi Beach tragedy should erase any lingering doubt: no amount of appeasement — be it recognition of statehood, revision of Islamist terms, or affirmations of “Islamophobia” — will mollify the jihadist impulse. Islamists are driven by an uncompromising, all-conquering ideology that calls for the annihilation of Israel and the subjugation of the West under an Islamic caliphate.
I am stunned, but actually not all.
This is because there is a predictable pattern of suicidal empathy - embracing the least civilised among us for egoistical or political reasons that still defy logic - propagandising to the public, limiting or outright banning of any form of self-defense and body count.
How many attacks have there been in France and Britain?
How many times have people spewed out empty platitudes that would never stand up to scrutiny just to mollify the public and wait for future attacks.
God forbid we should ever tackle the true ideological and criminal culprits.
Also - look how serious Canada is being at countering Islamist terror:
A group of five Liberal MPs and a lone NDP parliamentarian are planning to spend three days in Israel and the occupied West Bank, at a time of heightened tensions between Ottawa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
“I think being present helps; it does calm the situation because when you have internationals present, local actors will be on their best behaviour, or better behaviour,” said Liberal Sameer Zuberi, the MP for the Montreal-area riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard, speaking to CBC News before he traveled.
The MPs intend to meet with civil society groups, Palestinian refugees and internally displaced people, as well as officials from the Canadian government and the Palestinian Authority (PA). They will also talk to parliamentarians in Jordan on Monday before crossing into Israel the next morning.
The trip comes almost three months after the Canadian government formally recognized a Palestinian state, just ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, a symbolic gesture that nevertheless angered Israel.
“Israel will not allow you to shove a terror state down our throats,” Netanyahu told the UNGA a week after Canada’s announcement, also criticizing other Western countries that had opted for recognition, such as France and the United Kingdom.
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