@HenMazzig Last time she was disinvited from a writers festival, weeks after Bondi, every single writer at the festival dropped out in solidarity with her.
This investigation paints a deeply troubling picture and should serve as a wake-up call.
We call upon The Australian government to confront antisemitism forcefully.
Every reluctance, every excuse, and every failure to act sends extremists the same message: they can keep pushing the boundaries.
No Jew should ever feel compelled to hide their identity to receive medical care in an Australian hospital.
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I am a bit of a student of those who hate me and my fellow Jews. My masters is in Holocaust and Genocide History. So, I know a little something about Jew Hate, and, it has long been clear to me that Sally Rooney and Ta-Nehisi Coates, like Roald Dahl before them, are blood libeling Jew-haters who - when they are not lying - are deluding themselves with imagined conspiracies of evil Jewish plots - like the pathetic loser Nazis, Soviets, and the Pogroms staging medieval peasants of yore. I hold them both in contempt. Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Imagine you have a daughter. Your only child #CarolinBohl. Your little girl is attacked and murdered by terrorists #october7thmassacre
Destroyed. Your life is destroyed. Your little girl is dead. Francesca Albanese then writes to you, woman to woman: „Change medication“. #Albanese was never concerned with #humanrights.
Antisemitism is often understood as visceral hatred of Jews. But that is only part of the story.
Antisemitism is also a politics and a zeitgeist; a conspiracy theory that fuels mass hysteria about Jewish power; an underlying culture that teaches people that Jews are different, they don't belong, they aren't on our side—and ultimately, that they are our misfortune. It draws an invisible line between Jews and the broader society, gradually normalising their marginalisation and exclusion.
What emerges from Australian Jews’ testimonies for the Bondi Beach massacre inquiry is precisely this: an unmistakable cultural shift in which Jews are increasingly left outside the circle of social solidarity.
In many of these stories, it’s not ideological antisemites who exclude or distance themselves from Jews, but people who sense the cultural shift and adapt to it.
‘It’s nothing personal—it’s strictly business. These are the times. And what if there is something to that "Zio" label? Better stay away.’
This isn’t just happening in Australia. Jews across the free world are reliving a deeply familiar historical pattern. The fact that the broader societies around them remain largely oblivious to it is troubling—and is itself part of that pattern.
My latest for @Quillette
There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently.
When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies.
Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France.
The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it.
Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined.
And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country.
Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews.
Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.
Jewish people in our country are under constant attack.
This is no longer a growing pattern. There is an epidemic of violence against Jewish people.
It is now a national emergency and needs to be treated as such by the Government and public authorities.
I just took the floor at the United Nations to deliver a speech that never in my life I could have imagined necessary:
Madam Chair,
History teaches that the health of a society may be assessed by a simple test: Is it safe for Jews?
Sadly, today we need to pose this question to the West’s proudest democracies.
Australia: Synagogues firebombed in Melbourne.
“Gas the Jews” shouted in your streets.
A terrorist massacre of Jews at Bondi.
You rejected visas for Israeli lawmakers, while rewarding Hamas by recognizing a non-existent state.
Australia, you have more than 100,000 Jews.
How many now think of leaving?
Britain: Mass marches chanting for intifada and destruction of the Jewish state.
Jewish ambulances torched in Golders Green.
You impose an arms embargo on Israel—yet refuse to proscribe the IRGC.
Britain, you have 300,000 Jews.
How many now think of leaving?
Canada: Synagogues riddled with bullets.
Jewish schools under siege.
Your minister promotes an Internet hoax that Israel bombed a hospital.
Canada, you have 400,000 Jews.
How many now think of leaving?
France: Rabbis attacked in Paris. A Holocaust memorial defaced with graffitti.
State-sponsored media whitewash the UN’s Hamas apologist.
France, you have half a million Jews.
How many now think of leaving?
History teaches: Nations that welcomed Jews grew stronger; those that drove them out diminished themselves.
Prime Ministers Albanese, Starmer, Carney, President Macron: You failed to confront the hate. Worse, by applying a constant double standard to the Jewish state, you sent signals to the mob.
A society may be judged by a simple test.
We ask Leaders of the West: Are your countries safe for Jews?
@JetstarAirways Our flights from Tel Aviv were cancelled due to war, making our Phuket connection impossible. The tickets are non-refundable. Could you please advise if a travel credit or voucher is possible in these exceptional circumstances? #TravelHelp#Jetstar
@jetstar Our flights from Tel Aviv were cancelled due to war, making our Phuket connection impossible. The tickets were non-refundable. Is there any way we can get a travel credit or voucher under these exceptional circumstances?
On a summer afternoon at Australia's most famous beach, 15 people were murdered in the deadliest terror attack on Australian soil.
57 victims, witnesses and first responders tell their stories.
Never-before-seen footage.
A minute-by-minute reconstruction that the world cannot ignore.
Bondi: A Timeline of Terror — the definitive documentary.
It's now on YouTube. Watch now:
https://t.co/3KNN9H9IeT
🇮🇱 A BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE FROM AN ISRAELI PILOT TO THE CHILDREN
An Israeli Air Force pilot recorded a message for children who may be sitting in protected rooms tonight.
“You’re not alone.
When I fly high above your homes, my entire mission is to protect you.
Maybe you’re in a shelter right now. Maybe it’s a little scary.
But there are thousands of us doing everything we can to keep you safe.
When I’m in the cockpit, I think about your smiles, your games, the hugs you give your parents.
Every time you go into the safe room on time, you’re part of our team. Our team of heroes.
If your heart is beating fast, take a deep breath. Hold your brother or sister’s hand. Listen to a song you love.
And think of me flying above you, guarding the sky like an invisible shield surrounding you.”
He ends with:
“You are not alone. You are loved. You are protected. And I am here for you, even when you can’t see me.”