Jewish Blood Spilled in Bondi as Antisemitic Hate Boils Over in Australia

What happened at Sydney’s Bondi Beach this weekend wasn’t just a terror attack it was the tragic confirmation of what Australia’s Jewish community has been warning about for years: they are no longer safe, even in the so-called free West.

On Sunday, at least 12 people were murdered and dozens more wounded during a Hanukkah celebration an unmistakable, deliberate targeting of Jews. For those paying attention, it wasn’t shocking. It was inevitable.

“This is the worst fears of the Jewish community,” said Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. “It’s been bubbling under the surface for a long time, and now it’s actually happened.”

And he’s right.

The Bondi massacre came after 16 months of escalating antisemitism across Australia since Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis in 2023, igniting the war in Gaza. What followed in Australia wasn’t just protest. It was a tidal wave of anti-Jewish hate:

• Graffiti, firebombings, and arson targeting Jewish homes, schools, and businesses

• Jewish bakeries marked with inverted red triangles the same symbol used by terrorists to mark targets

• A childcare center firebombed in Sydney’s eastern suburbs

• Public hospital workers boasting online about denying care to Israeli patients

• 1,600 antisemitic incidents logged in the past year three times the average before 2023

Even the head of Australia’s main intelligence agency recently admitted that antisemitism is now his top national security concern not white supremacy, not climate protesters, not disinformation, but raw, unfiltered Jew-hatred erupting in the streets.

And yet, no one in authority acted until it was too late.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the attack a “devastating terrorist attack targeting Jewish people” and promised resources and protection. But for families mourning the dead in Bondi, that’s too little, too late. The government has already failed them.

Jewish schools have been forced to hire private security, Jewish parents are afraid to drop off their toddlers at daycare, and some are quietly discussing emigration to Israel because Australia, the free and fair democracy, no longer feels safe.

“Maybe we need to move to Israel one day,” said one local Jewish man. “The irony is that that’s looking like the only real safe place in the world we can be as Jews.”

How disgraceful is that? In 2025, Jews feel safer in a war zone than in a Western liberal democracy.

This is what happens when leaders politicians, media, universities refuse to name evil for what it is. Instead of denouncing the open hatred boiling in their streets, they coddled it. They ignored the signs, shrugged at the slogans, and lectured the Jewish community on “nuance” while the windows of their synagogues were being smashed in.

“The inevitable has happened now,” said Rabbi Levi Wolff. “You’re always looking behind you.”

This wasn’t just a breakdown in security. It was the culmination of years of moral cowardice.

Australia, like much of the West, is learning the hard way that tolerance for evil only empowers it. The Jewish community begged for protection. They were told they were exaggerating. Now there are twelve families burying loved ones.

Let this be a wake-up call. Not just for Australia, but for every Western nation flirting with antisemitic rhetoric, excusing radicalism, and pretending that attacks on Jews are somehow separate from the broader collapse of civil society.

Because the next Bondi could happen anywhere and evil always knocks twice.

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