Bondi Beach shooting: Why we need a royal commission into bondi terror attack after years of antisemitism - "Jewish Australians have been warning about the ever-increasing levels of racism they have been experiencing in our community – particularly since October 7, 2023. Earlier this year, we sat together before a NSW parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism to share our own stories and personal observations. The Great Synagogue is the most visible Jewish institution in Sydney, and possibly in Australia. It has been the scene of protests of a nature unlike any we have ever seen. Banners paraded past our synagogue bearing the phrase, “Sanction Israel”, as if our house of worship was in fact the Israeli consulate. Weekly protest activity within 200 metres from the entrance to our synagogue has, on occasion, made our congregants less likely to attend – particularly when participants at these rallies called for a “global intifada”... We have witnessed with complete clarity the shameful inaction of many in authority around Australia to use their platform and their position to fight against antisemitism. It began on October 8, 2023, in parts of our community where there was open celebration at the murder of Jews – well before Israel’s engagement against Hamas in Gaza – and the muted responses from those who might have spoken up against this hate speech. It continued on October 9 out the front of the Opera House, where riotous mobs were led by police from Sydney Town Hall while Jews were excluded from parts of the city. It kept going when the media debate around the scenes at the Opera House focused on the semantics of whether the rioters were chanting “Where’s the Jews” or “Gas the Jews”, despite both phrases being deeply threatening to Jewish safety. At universities, when Jewish students were forced to avoid parts of their campuses out of legitimate fears for their safety while student encampments festered with antisemitic hatred, university administrators contemplated segregating their Jewish students rather than removing the encampments. In schools, groups of teachers brought blood libels against Jews into their classrooms and the response from education department bureaucrats was to pass the buck on as to who was responsible for their discipline. When Jewish artists were doxxed there appeared to be no consequences for the perpetrators, some of whom continued to be contracted by government to provide – in a bitter irony – anti-racism material. Businesses avoided disciplinary actions against those tormenting their Jewish co-workers out of fear that there may be commercial or reputational repercussions against them. Murals were painted across from Jewish businesses depicting Jews as parasites who were controlling the foreign policy of the nations in which they were living; other businesses were tagged with terrorist iconography. Public commentators railed against the “Jewish lobby”, accusing Australian Jews who organised among themselves and advocated in their interests of being a “foreign interference” operation. These same people are still taken seriously and have their words published widely today. Young Jews were told to leave their share houses because they held a belief in Jewish self-determination and a Jewish state. Social media influencers railed against supporters of Israel and demonised Zionists and Zionism, as though only one nation in the world - the Jews - are undeserving of a state. It should be clear – particularly since the motivations of the two murderers apparently were to target “Zionists” – that when people target Zionists, they kill Jews. From the perspective of evildoers, these words are near to synonymous. The cacophony of Jewish hatred marauding around our airwaves and in our social media feeds had the cumulative effect of creating the conceptual preconditions necessary for an extremist to take their hatred to the next level. As the temperature grew, so did the nature of the violence. Jewish restaurants were raided by mobs of protesters assaulting employees and patrons. Synagogues and a Jewish business were set on fire. The summer of hate we experienced last year was a warning sign, but the response from too many was gaslighting and deflection. The accusations that we, as a Jewish community, were “weaponising” antisemitism to shut down debate on foreign policy were untrue, galling and malicious."
Bondi Beach shooting: Blame the attack on elites’ silence on antisemitism and multiculturalism - "NSW Police tolerated the protest on the basis that it was more dangerous to public peace to prevent the pro-Palestinian march. Indeed, the most notable arrest that evening was of an Australian Jewish businessman holding an Israeli flag on the basis that being detained was for his own protection. Those early responses set the foundations. Since 2023, and under the banner of supporting Palestinian justice and statehood, Jewish Australians have suffered significant increases in harassment, intimidation and threats. Synagogues and Jewish shops have been targeted by arsonists and graffitied with insults and hate slogans. University leaders have allowed, and in some cases, supported students and academics camping out on campuses to rally against Jews and Zionism on behalf of the Palestinian cause. There have been almost weekly protests permitted by state governments and their police forces in major cities that involve not just pro-Palestinian chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, which equates to the elimination of Israel, but at times the burning of Australia and Israeli flags, placards with images of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and symbols of Hamas even though it has been listed as a terrorist group by the Australian government since 2003. That political violence becomes ever more likely when hostility towards Jews becomes commonplace, normalised and eventually legitimised is obvious. However, there was a further insidious role played by elites. From Albanese to state and community leaders, Islamophobia was elevated alongside antisemitism as an evil of equal standing and prevalence despite the threats and intimidation being against Jewish rather than Muslim Australians. False equivalence in the moral identification of threats is not only dishonest. It plays down and even de-legitimises instances of blatant antisemitism by downgrading it as a national priority. In response to the widespread targeting of Jews, and at the same time, Albanese announced a Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in September 2024, a Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia was also appointed. This muddied the waters as to who the victims really were in a divided Australia and deepened the false narrative that pro-Jew bias is as much a problem as anti-Jew bias... Even after the Bondi Beach shootings, social sites and media were awash with comments warning against the importing of foreign and ancient rivalries to our shores, ignoring the ample evidence that they have already taken root. The older shooter came to Australia in 1998 and the second, his son, was born and raised locally. When the ethos of multiculturalism was ascendant in the 1990s, it was a rejection of homogeneity or integration as the organising principle for society. But multiculturalism then still meant the pairing of responsibilities and rights for all who lived in this country. That recipe for tolerance is giving way to a ranking of social identities and causes based on notions of separating groups into victims and oppressors. Those championing perceived victims, such as the Palestinians, enjoy maximum rights and minimal responsibilities. This will lead to the end of successful multiculturalism in Australia."
Free speech will have to go to preserve multiculturalism - "It’s not often the Premier of New South Wales says something that changes the political debate in the UK and elsewhere, but so it is this week. Following the awful carnage on Bondi Beach, NSW Premier Chris Minns gave a press conference about new legal restrictions on speech, and said this: “I acknowledge that we don’t have the same free speech rules that they have in the United States and I make no apologies for that, we have got a responsibility to knit together our community, that comes from different races and religions.” Nor was this a one off, he has said exactly this before, several times – perhaps most pithily in March when he phrased it thus: “I’ve fully said from the beginning that we don’t have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community.” This is such a startling admission that I confess, when I first heard it, that I did that meme where the guy blinks twice in bemused surprise. Because, of course, what Premier Minns came right out and said is what many people across the “free-speaking” Western world have suspected for a long time. The powers-that-be in Australia, the UK, and the EU believe you can have multiculturalism, and you can have free speech, but not both. And since multiculturalism must always come first, it is free speech that must yield, wither and ultimately die. Before we come to that startling revelation, however, we need to address Minns’s references to America, because they are quite bizarre. America is, of course, a very multicultural country. Indeed, it is arguably the epitome of the multicultural country. They have a phrase for it, the “American melting pot”... Meanwhile, America is also the land of free speech. It is their First Amendment to their sacred Constitution. And they really mean that as well. So what was Minns broadly hinting at in his news conferences? What is it about the mix of multiculturalism and free speech in America that is so toxic it must not be reproduced elsewhere? Perhaps Minns feels that America is in some ways a failed state. If so, I have news for the Premier of New South Wales. I’ve spent several months in the USA over the last two years, from the poorest states, Mississippi and Kentucky, to the richest, California and Connecticut. And for all its many problems – guns, drugs, political divisions – the USA has a cultural energy and scientific dynamism that makes Australia look like a dismal backwater, and an opulence and wealth that would make any European wince in envy, except perhaps the Swiss. That established, let’s move on to the second, more sinister implication of Minns’s words, which constitute a remarkable if inadvertent admission. Liberal politicians across the West, excluding the USA, believe free speech and multiculturalism cannot coexist. Why? They claim it is to prevent apocalyptic racism as races intermingle, but again America shows this is nonsense. No, what alarms Minns and his kin in London and Brussels is that multiculturalism, the idea that different races, creeds and cultures can live happily and peaceably in the same place, is a sadly failing project. Yes, it was a noble idea, but it is not working as hoped. Years ago politicians as mainstream as David Cameron and Angela Merkel admitted this, in exactly these words, though they probably would not now. What’s more, the failures of multiculturalism seem to be getting worse and spreading, as Bondi grimly illustrates. But this is where the irresistible force of fact – the failings of multiculturalism – meets the immovable object of faith. For many in the West, particularly within the liberal elite, multiculturalism has become a secular religion, a credo for the credulous. You can see it in Minns’s news conferences: he looks like a shiny-eyed preacher trying to steady a congregation at a moment of doubt. And what do religions do when threatened? They invoke heresy. You cannot say words that question the faith. Anyone who does must be punished, denounced, gagged with Online Safety Acts, and maybe given 18 months in jail for am anti immigration post viewed 33 times. That is why free speech is dying in the UK as it is in Australia. When they look at us, our rulers do not see voters, they see millions of potential unbelievers, who must be menaced into silence."
Meme - "Australian police when you didn't wear a mask during Covid vs Australian police when there's an active terrorist shooting
*brutalising woman vs hands up*"
Meme - "While the Australian media was conducting a campaign to portray all normal boys and men as potential "monsters', real monsters who want to murder us were being created in ethnic ghettos. No wonder Australia is now such a laughably soft target."
"HOW WE STOP THIS KID BECOMING A MONSTER *white boy*
*Bondi Beach shooter*"
Time to blame Men for the Bondi Beach massacre
Meme - Feminist News: "So let me get this straight. The Bondi beach shooter was born in Australia, while the Syrian who disarmed the shooter was born and raised in Syria and immigrated to Australia. But immigrants are the problem. Correct?"
Ryan Parsons: "Well, sort of. You left off the part that the dad shooter, who radicalized the son, did come over on ViSA and had radical ties. So meet halfway?"
Meme - "r/SingaporeRaw
The Facebook comments on the pages of Singapore-based news that covers the Bondi shooter really wakes you up to how many time bombs there are among us"
"Fisbfi Okwat Sebeefksbrli: False flag operation
Liza AL: Mossad ?ariah
Faz Bellamy: Lol u can plant whatever flag u want, but we know he served in IDF. lol
Mohamed Fahim: Isis, ya right. Isis Can go all part of the world but not in gaza to help. Funy"
"So many comments denying the attack and willfully painting it as an Israeli/Mossad false flag operation. Some even posted fake Facebook pages of the younger shooter, claiming proof that he is an Israeli agent. Absolutely insane and a scary insight into how such matters are really viewed by a certain demographic. This will only get worse as AI advances and these people with barely a functioning brain buys into propaganda and falsehoods perpetuated through malicious actors. I hope ISA is watching closely"
Meme - memetic sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "The left has draped itself in irony for so long they don't recognize religious conviction as a real thing. They think when Muslims say things like globalize the intifada or kill the infidel that it's just another meaningless political slogan their friends might shout at a college protest. When it actually happens they start trying to figure out why, they reach for anything except the obvious 'they really meant what they say'"
descriptive display name that is way too long... @mrgracemug...: "oh man what terrible luck. what are the chances ?! that sydney's minuscule jewish population would hold a hannukah event at an internationally recognised beach ?! that a bunch of october 7 survivors attended for some reason? that would be attacked by an extremist with an extremely rare and hard to get gun licence? who isn't being watched closely by law enforcement? I mean what are the chances ????!!!! such terrible bad luck."
Readers added context: "The event where the shooting occurred, "Chanukah by the Sea," is an annual celebration hosted by Chabad Bondi at Bondi Beach. Also, while the process to get a gun in NSW requires time and money commitment, it is not particularly difficult."
Are nazis in Chris Minns hate speech sights ... or just Palestinian peace protestors? : r/aussie - "When you ask pro-Pals why they aren't at least as concerned about far more deadly conflicts like those in Yemen or Sudan as they are about Gaza they call it whataboutism and accuse you of obfuscating the issue at hand. When you decide to ban genocidal chants like 'globalize the intifada' after the most significant act of terrorism in Australian history, the pro-Pals start yelling "but what about the Nazis". Says it all really."
Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ on X - "Bosnian Muslim guy working for Queensland Police in Australia faces court after celebrating the ISIS terrorist murder of ten year old Matilda at Bondi He came to this country as a refugee only to spew this genocidal hatred. Depressing"
Naturally, on reddit people claimed he was just criticising Israel
David Hollyoake on X - "Matt Chun is a communist dickhead who wants to abolish Australia. Note how he crosses the word Australia out in his posts, as he does America. He makes an explicit public post about not mourning innocent lives, including a 10-year little girl being slaughtered at the hand of his bedfellows Islamists. What an absolute loser and chump."
AussieGuy ๐ฆ๐บ on X - "And I have noticed he can’t support himself without taxpayer dollars. Fits the communist stereotype to a tee. They never actually contribute anything to society ๐คท♂️"
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
Left wingers claim that anti-Zionism isn't anti-Semitism, but you're not allowed to mourn Jews massacred in Australia because that's "Zionist framing"
We didn’t fight foreign extremism to fail at home - "For more than two decades, brave Australian armed forces have been deployed offshore to confront violent Islamist extremism, including jihadist movements, based on the clear strategic logic that confronting these threats early would prevent them from reaching our streets and our communities. We fought, advised, trained and lost friends on the explicit understanding that early warning, intelligence co-ordination and institutional courage mattered because failure would one day cost lives at home. That failure has now occurred. The question for Australia is no longer whether extremism or anti-Semitism exists but whether our institutions and our leaders are prepared to confront their own shortcomings with the seriousness demanded of those sent to counter it. The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide exposed what happened when institutions avoided uncomfortable truths. It found that fragmented responsibility, defensive cultures and constrained accountability caused deep and lasting moral injury, not only to individuals but also to families, communities and the nation. Critically, it showed that limited and internal reviews repeatedly failed where fully empowered royal commissions were required... Veterans understand something often lost in policy debate. Accountability is not about blame; it is about prevention. In military operations, when systems fail, investigations are exhaustive, independent and unafraid because anything less risks repetition and more lives lost. The government has announced an independent review. The most common defence is that a review is faster. That claim does not withstand scrutiny. Under Australian law, a royal commission can be established immediately, can operate in parallel with criminal and operational processes, and can be directed to deliver interim findings on urgent risks and systemic failure. Reviews are not inherently faster; they are narrower. Speed achieved by limiting scope, evidence and coercive powers is not efficiency, it is omission... That royal commission identified patterns Australians should now recognise: warning signs identified but not acted on; responsibility fragmented across agencies; accountability mechanisms without real consequence; and affected communities left carrying unresolved doubt. These are precisely the conditions under which extremism takes root and public confidence erodes. Issues of national security, intelligence co-ordination, law enforcement preparedness, online radicalisation, social cohesion and the protection of vulnerable communities cannot be examined behind closed doors or within administratively convenient boundaries. They demand a process with the power to compel evidence, test assumptions, examine cross-agency failure and report publicly to the nation. Only a royal commission can do that. For veterans, this is personal. Many of us spent our careers confronting extremist threats in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere to prevent exactly this outcome. When prevention fails and scrutiny is constrained, it inflicts the same moral injury identified by the recent Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide; the injury that occurs when those asked to defend national values see those values eroded by caution, process and institutional timidity... For the sake of victims, for the integrity of our institutions, the future of Australia and to avoid repeating failures already laid bare by the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, I call on the Prime Minister to establish a federal royal commission. I also invite other veterans’ charities, ex-service organisations, community organisations, and first-responder organisations to add their voices. We did not fight this threat overseas so Australia could manage failure at home."
Tony Abbott: Bondi massacre is what happens when assimilation fails - "It’s Australia’s great shame that the worst atrocity to befall Jewish people since the October 7 massacre should have taken place here. Australia now joins all the other Western countries that are obviously plagued by militant Islam... Regrettably, this atrocity was just the latest escalation in the Jew hatred that’s lately afflicted my country, starting with local Islamist preachers “rejoicing” in the October 7 carnage within hours of it taking place; continuing with a mob at the Sydney Opera House screaming “f—k the Jews”; and then 100,000 people marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge yelling “death to the IDF” and “globalize the intifada”. As was predicted, they’ve now got their wish. First, there was Jew-hating graffiti, then vandalism of Jewish property, then the fire-bombing of synagogues, and now the Bondi massacre. If incitement to violence goes unchecked, soon enough, real violence takes place; and, soon enough, not just against Jews but against everyone who’s not for an apocalyptic Islamic caliphate. Yet the response of Australia’s leadership to this escalating Jew hatred has been a case study in hand-wringing impotence: no hate preachers have been prosecuted or deported and no hate marches have been banned (as is possible under existing laws), even though these have gone way beyond any possible exercise of freedom of speech or expression of protest into acts of harassment and intimidation. Even now, the prime minister and the New South Wales premier are claiming that the remedy to Jew hatred is even tougher gun laws (even though Australia’s are already among the toughest in the world), rather than an all-out effort to counter the Islamist extremism that justifies “death to the infidels”. Even now, there’s a reluctance, to avoid giving offence, to have a much needed debate about who are suitable immigrants to a liberal democratic society and the extent to which some versions of Islam might be incompatible with life in a country that expects to remain a pluralist democracy. For instance, it’s hard to see how support for a caliphate, or Muslim theocracy, is compatible with what’s normally-regarded-as-self-evident: namely democratic parliaments coupled with freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and conscience that have hitherto been an inherent part of life in Australia, as in every western country. Since 1993, every new Australian citizen has been required to pledge allegiance “to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey.” Since 1999, as an affirmation of citizenship, it’s been recited at some civic occasions. It’s actually the least that should be expected of everyone who lives in a pluralist democracy. Especially in the wake of the Bondi massacre, it’s more important than ever that citizens, new and old, don’t just mouth the words but that they mean them and live them. As well, since 2007, adults becoming citizens have been required to pass a citizenship test (as in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S.) including five mandatory, tick-a-box questions on Australian values: for instance, “which statement best reflects freedom of religion in Australia”; or what is meant by “everyone is equal under the law.” These should not be difficult for anyone who’s genuinely committed to our democratic beliefs yet some 35 per cent of recent applicants reportedly fail. Like Canada, modern Australia has always been a settler nation yet it was long expected that migrants would integrate almost immediately by mastering the English language and participating in employment, education and sport in the course of eventually assimilating into the Australian mainstream, at least by the second generation. Under the doctrine of multiculturalism, which found its way to Australia from Canada in the 1970s, there’s been a rise in “hyphenated Australians,” vacuous slogans such as “our diversity is our unity,” and “professional ethnics” with a vested interest in discerning discrimination and even racism supposedly pervading every aspect of Australian life. This is what really needs to change in the wake of the Bondi massacre as it feeds a sense of grievance which pernicious ideologies like Islamic State can then exploit. In fact, because all migrants choose to come to Australia, presumably because they like what they see, we do them no favours by diluting Australia’s Anglo-Celtic core culture (the world’s most welcoming) or our Judaeo-Christian ethos (the world’s most universal) in a bid to make them feel more at home. Especially in what’s now a multiethnic society, there needs to be a strong civic patriotism, based on shared values and appreciation of a common history, if countries like ours are to last. Countries that have rightly shunned discrimination on the basis of race or religion, still have to discriminate on the basis of values if we’re not to let misplaced decency lead to undermining from within. Belatedly, we’re now debating deporting non-citizens who are on potential terrorist watch lists and studying the social media feeds of long term visa applicants to see what they really think. The pity is that it’s taken the worst terrorist outrage in our history to make this obvious truth once more sayable, and these obvious precautions once more in contemplation, without being shouted down as racist."
If you're against an Islamic Caliphate, that's Islamophobic
University of Sydney sacks academic just hours after Bondi Beach massacre - months after she branded Jewish students 'parasites' in campus tirade - "The University of Sydney has sacked a staff member months after she was filmed calling Jewish students 'parasites' and 'filthy Zionists'. The university announced on Monday - just a day after the Bondi Beach mass shooting - that it had dismissed 'cultural activist and media academic' Rose Nakad, who was filmed confronting students celebrating a Jewish holiday in October. In footage obtained by Sky News, Nakad approached several students, asked if they were 'Zionists', and continued to harass them as they repeatedly asked her to leave. The students, who were celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, said they were not making a political statement or staging a protest, and simply wanted to be left alone. However, Nakad continued her tirade, leaning closer to one woman and telling her: 'A Zionist is the lowest form of rubbish.' 'Zionists are the most disgusting thing that has ever walked this earth,' she yelled. Nakad described herself as an 'Indigenous Palestinian' before calling the group 'baby killers' and telling one member she was a 'f***ing filthy Zionist'... 'Every time you see a chanting, vicious protest on a university campus, it's telling you that antisemitism's all right.' 'Every time nothing is done about that, it's telling you it's not wrong. 'The fact that universities, of all places, have not stood against it is a major factor in making antisemitism respectful.' Emeritus Professor Craven's comments came after the University of Sydney waited until after the Bondi mass shooting to sack Nakad. Associate professor of mathematics and physics, and Jewish academic at the University of Queensland, Yoni Nazarathy added that antisemitism 'was not handled properly by our education system and university leaders'."
Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed reveals injury update to Kevin Rudd after terror attack - "Mr Al-Ahmed declared his love for US President Donald Trump as he arrived at the dinner hosted by Colel Chabad, the oldest operating charity in Israel... When asked about whether he’d like to meet Donald Trump, he replied: “I wish. He’s a hero of the world, of course. I love him. He’s a strong man.”"
Looks like left wingers are going to start demonising him
Antisemitism royal commission: Steven Lowy says major changes needed after Bondi terror attack - "One of the country’s most prominent Jewish businessmen, Steven Lowy, says Australia must do more to defend its pluralistic values and strongly respond to those who want to import ancient hatreds and violence from other places, hinting at the need for tighter immigration standards."
Time to jail him for racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia
Western Sydney ‘heart of Islamic extremism’, Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie - "Senior opposition senator Bridget McKenzie has declared Western Sydney the “heart of Islamic extremism” while attacking Anthony Albanese’s “political” response to the Bondi terror attack. The Albanese government announced a suite of changes to tighten gun laws following the attack, including a national buyback scheme, countrywide standards for ownership and tougher import restrictions to stop owners buying modifications making their firearms more lethal. Senator McKenzie has joined her Nationals colleagues and bodies representing farmers and recreational shooters in opposing the reforms, arguing they would penalise genuine owners... “This prime minister … refuses to take on Western Sydney, where the heart of Islamic extremism lives.” She went on to say Mr Albanese’s “response to this terrorist attack is purely political”, calling it “his great conflict”. “His refusal to even acknowledge or speak honestly about the reality of how this came to occur is why he’s got his response wrong,” Senator McKenzie said. “This is pure deflection and by lumping it all in together, it makes it clear, if he was really serious, he would take on his own constituency in Western Sydney and deal with the actual problem at its source.”... Under the scheme, federal and state and territory governments would split the bill on a 50:50 basis. Tasmania has warned it would cost the cash-strapped state $20m, while the Northern Territory’s chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, has flatly rejected it would partake. Queensland has also been hesitant to back it. The gun law reforms are one part of a behemoth omnibus Bill that Mr Albanese has recalled parliament early to pass next week. The Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 proposes sweeping changes to security, migration and speech laws. Among its proposals is a framework for the attorney-general to list “prohibited hate groups”, making membership, recruitment and funding criminal offences. It would also create aggravated offences for religious or spiritual leaders who incite hatred and tighten visa regulations, allowing cancellations based on public statements that disseminate racial or ethnic superiority. Free speech advocates have opposed the clampdown, warning the changes are too broad and risk stifling public discourse. Earlier on Wednesday, Senator McKenzie’s upper house colleague Matt Canavan said he “can’t support these laws”. “(It’s) the biggest attack on free speech since Robert Menzies tried to ban the Communist Party in the 1950s,” Senator Canavan told Seven’s Sunrise, adding it was “not the way to deal with the tragic events of Bondi”. “The government’s facing a lot of criticism, rightly in my view, about its migration policies. “And there’s no doubt in my mind that under these laws, legitimate criticism of migration policies, integration (in our) country, maintaining the Australian way of life could easily be construed as somehow a racist attack, and you could be prosecuted.” He put forward the answer was to “enforce the current laws” instead of making new ones. “These hate preachers, for years now under Labor, have been allowed to say the most abominable things, have been allowed to threaten the lives of Jewish Australians, and there has been no enforcement of our existing laws on the books,” he said."
The state is burning — but ‘selfish’ protesters are still planning march (aka "Melbourne Lord Mayor urges pro-Palestine protesters to abandon rally, help fire-ravaged Victorian communities") - "Melbourne’s Lord Mayor has called on protesters at a controversial planned pro-Palestine rally on Sunday to volunteer in fire relief works rather than disrupt the city. Pro-Palestine activists are planning to rally for their first major CBD protest since the Bondi Beach massacre and vowed to continue into 2026. Nick Reece pleaded with the protesters to instead “go and help those communities impacted by the fires” “It’s going to need a big volunteer effort and they could use your help,” Mr Reece said. “At a time when the resources of the State are stretched to breaking point with fires we do not need police and other first responders being diverted to manage CBD protests. “Common sense and respect for other people in need should mean any planned protest does not go ahead. The protests planned for tomorrow will make no difference to global events but divert precious front line personnel from fire ravaged communities. “With Australia’s Jewish community still hurting after the tragedy at Bondi, and Victoria fighting catastrophic fires, to proceed with these protests would be selfish, divisive, and offensive. “Please put the good of your fellow Victorians first, call off these protests.” It comes after business leaders are urged the Allan government to intervene, warning that constant protests were affecting “how the whole city functions” and stalling the CBD economy. It is set to be their 106th protest since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel and the subsequent bombardment of Gaza."
When you hate Jews more than you love your community
Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ on X - "BREAKING: The Australian government plans to make “Islamophobia” punishable by up to 5 years in prison with new hate speech laws rushed in after the Bondi jihadist terrorist attack. This is legitimately stunning. Two jihadists massacred 15 people and their response is to make it illegal to criticise Islamic extremism."
NSW government’s push for hate slogan ban criticised by peak Muslim bodies - "The peak body for Imams in Australia has criticised the Minns government’s proposed ban on hate slogans, saying they are “unnecessary”, “legally problematic” and risk “disproportionate impact on particular communities”... The law and safety committee was asked to consider how the state government could ban phrases such as “globalise the intifada”, and had a short window in which it accepted public submissions... They also said there was “no evidence” slogans such as “globalise the intifada” resulted in violence or threats to safety, and a move to ban the slogan by the government could “discourage civic engagement, deepen marginalisation, and weaken trust between communities and institutions”. The Muslim Legal Network (MLN), the peak body for Muslim lawyers in Australia, also made a submission, arguing that the word “intifada” was not used exclusively regarding Israel, and that banning an Arabic word risks the “politicisation of the Arabic language”. They said such a move could reinforce “racist tropes that suggest that Arabic and Arabs are inherently violent”... The organisers of the pro-Palestine protests in Sydney, Palestine Action Group, said in their submission that the move to ban the slogan was “authoritarian overreach” and would “chill dissent”. They denied that the slogan “globalise the intifada” was a chant used at their rallies, and that it was a historical phrase that is a call for “global civil, non-violent resistance”."
Students push Palestine vote - "The small activist group known as Students’ Against War, who were active during the University of Sydney campus protests... in an article titled “Globalise the Intifada! One Palestinian State!” in the student magazine Honi Soit said “supporting a one-state solution and Palestinians right to armed resistance” was not antisemitic"
Woman wearing ‘globalise the intifada’ jacket among three arrested at Sydney protest against US action in Venezuela
Hundreds defy anti-protest laws at Sydney Town Hall rally for Palestine - "Ahmed Abadla, a Palestinian from Khan Yunis in Gaza and member of the Palestine Justice Movement... detailed how the phrase awakens the public to the fact that “those white skinned and blue eyed Zionists who migrated to the land of Palestine at the end of the 19th century had absolutely no religious claims to their settlement” but only colonised the land."
When you're upset there's a disproportionate impact on you because you can't call for Jews to be killed anymore
‘This was no incident, I was knifed by a terrorist’ - "When I heard of the Bondi attack I was angry. “How could this be happening again?” I thought. In 2014, ASIO had considerable intelligence ahead of the Endeavour Hills attack but this was not assessed or passed on to police. Is it the same with Bondi? The Victorian Coroner, in his 51-page findings on Endeavour Hills, made not a single recommendation. Not one. ASIO had made serious mistakes and there had been significant intelligence failings, but the agency was not held to account. Terrorist attacks need to be called out as terrorist attacks. Terrorists need to be called out for what they represent – Islamic extremism, far-right extremism, far-left extremism – and the groups they represent: Islamic State, Nazis, antifa. The words used by our leaders matter, and to not call out an attack for what it is, is gutless and devalues every victim and survivor. Terrorist attacks should not be occasion for arse-covering or an exercise in blaming others. They are a time to reflect on one’s own actions and decisions, a time when true leaders must show real leadership. It’s not about politicising the attack, it’s not about apportioning blame, it’s not about giving insincere apologies, it’s not about stubbornly sticking to policies that don’t work. It’s about taking action, it’s about admitting you got things wrong, it’s about changing policies, it’s about listening to people – police, academics, the public, the affected communities, victims and survivors. From what we know so far, the Bondi attack was religious, it was ideological, it was an ISIS-inspired radical Islamic attack. Call it that. Don’t mince words. This is not a time for political correctness; it’s a time to make people accountable. The Bondi attack, like every other terrorist attack, created fear in our community. We saw brave people standing up for that community; we saw people from our community killed; we saw people at their best; we saw two people at their worst. We saw politicians who regularly wore the keffiyeh, who derided the Jewish community and seemingly supported a terrorist organisation, shed crocodile tears about the attack. This was weakness and every Australian saw it; what we didn’t see was strong leadership. The approach to a safe and secure Australia must be bipartisan, and federal and state governments need to come together, leave their politics aside and make decisions for the good of Australians, not their political or factional masters."
Extremism should be the real target, not gun laws - "Guns are just one option, potent in the wrong hands, but the Bondi attackers should never have been permitted guns at all... Australia is already a world leader in gun control, thanks to the 1996 National Firearms Agreement after Port Arthur... That finessed approach is why John Howard’s response remains an exemplar in Australian politics, but it was appropriate for its time, not now. Since then, a pre-existing downward trend in firearms crime has steepened to a globally low level. Australia’s gun‑death rate of 0.09 per 100,000 is less than 2 per cent of that of the US and well below Canada, France and New Zealand. Our laws are already stricter than all these countries and our total number of licensed firearms has grown far less than our population... The hard work on gun control in Australia has already been done. Australia does not have a firearms problem, it has an extremism problem. The horrific Bondi massacre exposed shortcomings in existing systems and these urgently must be fixed."
Waiting for Islam’s reformation | The Spectator Australia - "This apparently benign formula, adopted by most commentators, is a dangerous and facile misrepresentation of a crisis engulfing the West. It suggests that if we weed out the extremists who want to come here, all will be well. A glance at Europe tells a different story. The millions of ostensibly ‘law-abiding’ Muslims who have migrated there in recent decades have helped, unwittingly or otherwise, to create the demographic and cultural conditions in which radicalism flourishes and the cultures of host societies are perverted. These migrants have not primarily gone to Europe to forge better lives grounded in Western civic values and freedoms. Too many have been drawn by the material and social largesse of Western states, without embracing the moral and cultural foundations that made such prosperity possible. Since people of Arabic and Middle Eastern descent are as capable of generosity, mercy, and reasoned thought as anyone else, why are so many of their countries of origin among the most violent and dysfunctional on Earth? The answer lies not in race or ethnicity but in Islam itself. Christianity, rightly, has been criticised for its violent past. Yet no serious commentator today says, ‘The Inquisition was merely a perversion of Christianity.’... Judaism and Christianity have moved on from the darker aspects of their past, aided by centuries of internal critique, institutional authority, and theological development... Like Christianity, Islam is not monolithic. It is entirely possible for benign forms of Islam to be practised by many Muslims, and there are countless ‘cultural Muslims’ who identify with the faith without closely observing its demands. Yet extremists often argue with some textual justification that they, not the moderates, are the orthodox interpreters of Islam, and that it is the ‘moderates’ who are perverting the religion. The problem is not merely the existence of this view but its prevalence. Those who hold it are not isolated outliers. They constitute a distinct sectarian current within Islam. While numerically a minority, even a small proportion of a global population of 1.6 billion is enormous. A 2013 Pew Research Centre survey found that up to a quarter of Muslims in Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Tunisia believe suicide bombings and other acts of violence against civilians are sometimes justified. Even if most of these respondents would never participate in such atrocities, their failure to repudiate them is a cause for grave concern that should trouble Muslim leaders as much as it troubles the West. Following the Bondi massacre, the Australian National Imams Council issued a sermon titled ‘Unity, Harmony, and Standing Together as One Nation’... nowhere in this sermon, or over the past two years have Australia’s imams publicly repudiated the violent antisemitic passages of the Koran that extremists routinely cite. Instead, these texts are ignored, as though they do not exist. The prevalence of radical Islam is not evidence that it represents a perversion of the faith; it is evidence that Islam has not undergone an effective reformation. Theology, however, is not the sole problem. The more immediate issue is the culture that Islam has spawned in many Muslim-majority societies, one that has given rise to practices such as forced child marriage, female genital mutilation, honour killings, compulsory veiling, and the treatment of non-Muslims as ritually unclean, as illustrated by the case of Asia Bibi. Most of these barbarities are rightly proscribed in Australia. But the fact that they are justified by appeals to religious authority and would be practised by some in the absence of legal restraint demonstrates a profound incompatibility with liberal democratic norms. This culture can be deeply misogynistic, homophobic, and antisemitic, as evidenced by the Pakistani grooming-gang scandals in Britain, where authorities failed to act for years out of fear of confronting religiously inflected cultural practices. Migrants also bring with them the trauma of life in dysfunctional and violent societies. Even moderate Muslim families are not immune to the radicalisation of their children, particularly where communities become segregated into enclaves with minimal contact with broader society. Europe, the UK and Birmingham, in particular, show where this can lead. It may be that the antisemitism of many Islamic radicals is shaped as much by geopolitics and inherited grievance as by theology. But the result is no less deadly. The same is often true, to varying degrees, among otherwise ‘moderate’ Muslims. Whether antisemitism is rooted in religion or culture is beside the point. If we are serious about stamping out antisemitism, we must not import antisemitic migrants to this country. But what are the odds that a royal commission into antisemitism will confront that uncomfortable reality? Australia’s immigration program should unapologetically serve the national interest and be planned separately from refugee intake, which should be selective and, in most cases, time-limited. I don’t doubt most Muslims in Australia were as appalled by the massacre at Bondi, as those at Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo. Just not appalled enough to take a long, hard look at their religion and wonder why virtually all the religiously-motivated mayhem in the 21st century has been committed by their co-religionists."
The Neo-Nazis are gone. The Islamic terrorists remain safe | The Spectator Australia - " Very few will shed a tear for the tiny collection of ideologically confused Neo-Nazis who typically conducted their ‘protests’ in the dead of night and were confined mostly to Melbourne. (Not the kind of ‘diversity’ the Premier was envisioning, no doubt. But then again, there’s a lot wrong with Victoria right now.) These groups, at least one of which intended to contest the next election, were very clearly the target of the government’s new hate-speech laws. Neo-Nazis have been a convenient pivot for many years, allowing lazy politicians to move conversations about Islamic terrorism to general ‘hate-speech’ discussions every time they are put on the spot by a reporter. Go back and watch the press conferences from government ministers about the Bondi attack. Almost every time, the topic starts with Islamic terrorism and finishes with ‘the Neo-Nazis’. With the Neo-Nazis gone, the Labor government will no longer have a convenient scapegoat to explain the distinct failures of Australian political leadership over the previous three decades which has led directly to the establishment of extensive and varied radical Islamic groups inside our capital cities. Our ministers have gone so far as to campaign for, and assist in, the return of individuals known to have belonged to ISIS, engaged in the Islamic State. Someone needs to hand the government a mirror. To that point, while the Neo-Nazis are going into immediate hiding, precisely zero radical Islamic groups have notified the public of their intent to disband. The government has not mentioned radical Islam as the purpose of the new laws despite Islamic terror attacks, not hate speech, being the cause of innocent people being murdered not only at Bondi Beach but during previous terror attacks at home and abroad. In other words, we suffered an Islamic terror attack and decided to ban the Neo-Nazis. It is a decision that doesn’t protect Australians from Islamic terrorism, which is meant to be the point. Or have we all forgotten? This legislation makes the government feel good, gives them some headlines, and allows them to avoid wading into the extremely dangerous network of radical Islamic groups and individuals known to exist in the shadows of our society. Is the government afraid of arresting Islamic terrorists? I think they might be. I think they’re personally terrified of ending up like Salman Rushdie or Charlie Hebdo. It was revealed today, as the draft legislation circulates, that Islamic hate preachers may even have a convenient ‘out’ which protects even the most hateful, vile, antisemitic speech that might incite violence. If the offending speech forms part of a recognised religious text, that speech will be protected... In other words, the very individuals considered to be the most dangerous in our community and who are known to be responsible for radicalising others to violence could find their speech protected. It took less than a month to go from the public calling for dramatic steps to weed out specifically and explicitly Islamic terror to a new set of powerful laws that don’t even have the courage to name the problem. Australians know Islamic terrorism is the source of antisemitism and needs to be taken off our streets and presents a risk, not only to the Jews, but to everyone. This video is from over ten years ago when ISIS supporters chanted, ‘Behead the infidels!’ Most of these people in the video are still here, living amongst us. Despite belonging to or associating with proscribed terror groups, carrying terrorist flags, and shouting slogans that called for immediate violence against Australian citizens, nothing has been done about them... Why, Mr Prime Minister, does your legislation fail to target Islamic terror? Why does it avoid naming Islamic terror? Why are members of the government, including Independent MPs, already trying to expand this hate-speech law to cover the LGBTQ+ community, the disabled, and concepts of Islamophobia? What has any of that got to do with the scourge of radical Islamic terror? As it stands, I have no faith that any Islamic hate preachers, those on the ASIO watchlist, or anyone who was previously associated with an Islamic terror group will be charged and/or deported. In allowing the focus to be on antisemitism instead of Islamic terror, this government has betrayed the people of Australia and made a mockery of the deaths at Bondi Beach. More people will be killed. More terrorists will act. And Australians will be too afraid to speak against the government whose policies led directly to where we are today."
The government recognising certain religions but not others is not a problem when it pushes the left wing agenda
