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Short answer
Australia did not wake up to antisemitism overnight. It was cultivated in public, normalized in the streets, and excused for months before the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. Masked men were filmed in Melbourne waving Hezbollah flags and chanting loyalty to the group’s slain leader, while crowds at mass pro Palestinian protests shouted genocidal and antisemitic slogans such as “Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews” and “fuck the Jews.” Protesters openly glorified Hamas leaders, and mobs in Sydney chanted for the slaughter of Jews, only for major media outlets to misreport the scenes and later remove the footage without correction.
Jewish students describe university campuses as hostile and unsafe. Intelligence agencies later confirmed foreign direction behind the escalation, with assessments linking Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to orchestrated antisemitic attacks on Jewish cafes and synagogues. When terror reached Bondi Beach, it was the predictable result of months of tolerated incitement against Jews finally turning into violence.
Long answer
Australia did not wake up to antisemitism overnight. It was cultivated in public, normalized in the streets, and excused for months. Long before the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre, warning signs were impossible to miss.
Masked men were filmed in Melbourne waving Hezbollah flags and chanting “Labbaika ya Nasrallah,” pledging loyalty to the slain leader of a terrorist organization that openly calls for the destruction of Israel and the death of Jews. At the same rallies, crowds chanted “Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return,” a genocidal call celebrating the massacre of Jews, and shouted “fuck the Jews.” These were not fringe mutterings but mass pro-Palestinian demonstrations in major Australian cities.
Protesters openly held images glorifying dead Hamas leaders, treating mass-murdering terrorists as heroes. In Melbourne, a synagogue was firebombed while activists stormed an Israeli restaurant nearby. In Sydney, mobs chanted for the slaughter of Jews, only for Australia’s largest news outlet to falsely report it as celebrating Assad’s downfall, later quietly removing the footage without correction.
Jewish students across Australian universities have described campuses as openly hostile and unsafe. Pro-Palestinian protesters have declared that “just like Israel, Australia does not have the right to exist,” openly embracing revolutionary extremism. Investigations have documented Islamist extremist groups infiltrating Australia’s pro-Palestine movement.
Australian intelligence later confirmed foreign direction of this violence, with assessments linking Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to orchestrated antisemitic attacks on Jewish cafes and synagogues, renewing calls for its designation as a terrorist organization. Jewish businesses such as Avner’s Bakery in Sydney have closed after sustained harassment and antisemitic threats. Jewish Australians increasingly report feeling unsafe in their own neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship. A timeline of antisemitic attacks since the Gaza war shows a clear and relentless escalation. “Globalize the Intifada” was never a metaphor, and the Bondi Beach massacre proved it.
When terror reached Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration, it did not come out of nowhere. It followed months of normalized incitement, denial, euphemisms, and excuses. The attacks and incitement targeted Jews, not Israel, and antisemitic rhetoric was tolerated until it became violence. Australia is now facing the consequences of allowing calls for Jewish blood to masquerade as political protest.
