The Massacre of Jews in Sydney, Australia Should Be Condemned Without Reservation by all Supporters of the Palestinians

The Responsibility for their Deaths Belongs to those Governments and Zionist Groups Which Deliberately Associate Jews with the Genocide in Gaza

Times of India Report on Shooting Attack on Jewish Community on Bondi Beach

The attack on a Chanukah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach should be condemned by all supporters of the Palestinians and anti-Zionists. It was an anti-Semitic attack without any justification.

The fact that Zionist organisations in Britain and Australia deliberately set out to associate Jews with Israel’s genocide in Gaza is no excuse for attacks on Jews as Jews.

Israel attacks children playing football in a Gaza school killing 39 'terrorists' – this is what Zionist groups in the diaspora support

This association is not limited to Zionist organisations. The British government under war criminal Starmer also does its best to draw the link between Jews and Israel’s atrocities. They deliberately use Jews in this country, as does the Australian government, as the moral alibi for Israel’s atrocities.

The Metropolitan Police, whose origins lie in colonial policing in Ireland, are to the fore in associating Jews with Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. Their pretext for preventing a Palestine solidarity demonstration near the BBC in January was the presence of a Jewish synagogue nearby. In doing this they deliberately associated Jews with Israel’s murder of children and Palestinian civilians.

The Met is so stupid that their officers even formed a ‘protective cordon’ around the Jewish Bloc on the Palestine march in December 2023 to ‘protect them’ from other marchers on the assumption that being Muslim or a Palestinian supporter made one anti-Semitic.

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Thus was born the lie that led to two individuals in Australia taking the lives of 16 Jewish people. It is ironic that the death toll may have been more but for the heroic actions of Ahmed al Ahmed, a local fruit shop owner, in taking a rifle from one of the attackers. Ahmed was himself shot twice in the process.

The Muslim Hero of Bondi Beach - Ahmed al Ahmed

Ahmed is a Muslim from Idlib in Syria, thus giving the lie to the accusation that there is a connection between being a Muslim and anti-Semitism. It is noticeable that mainstream news coverage fails to mention this fact though they are normally eager to mention the religion of killers (as long as they are not Christian).

Even the Jerusalem Post was forced to describe Ahmed as belonging to the ‘righteous among the nations’, that group of non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews during the holocaust, though they too failed to mention his religion.

Ahmed would not however have been awarded the title of ‘righteous among the nations’ by Yad Vashem, Israel’s holocaust propaganda museum. Yad Vashem has supported the genocide in Gaza by denying that it is a genocide, like good holocaust deniers. Khaled Abdul Wahab, the ‘Arab Schindler’, who rescued many Tunisian Jews, was denied the award because he was an Arab.

In 2009 on the BBC’s Big Questions I said that

Of course there’s no justification for antisemitism, but there’s also no justification for the Board of Deputies calling rallies in support of the invasion of Lebanon and Gaza in the name of the British Jewish community. That causes antisemitism. It associates every Jewish person with the terror in Lebanon and Gaza.

That is exactly what happened with the massacre in Sydney. The New South Wales Board of Deputies is vocal in its support of Israel’s genocide. It is highly likely that those who committed this atrocity did so because they associated Australian Jews with the horrors of Gaza.  The hypocrisy of Netanyahu in attributing the massacre to anti-Semitism when he and his bastard state have been the prime agents in causing that anti-Semitism is nauseating hypocrisy.

The reality is that Zionism and the Israeli state have no problem with anti-Semitism in other countries because it stimulates Jewish immigration to Israel. In my book, Zionism During the Holocaust I quoted Abraham Shpadrong who wrote in Davar in July 1952 that:

… if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men… and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as 'Bloody Jew,' 'Jews go to Palestine,' and similar 'intimacies.' I can vouch that the results, in terms of considerable immigration to Israel from these countries, would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been, for decades, preaching to deaf ears.

Nor was this an isolated example. In Israel people such as the notorious racist rapper Yoav Eliasi (The Shadow) justified the murder of 11 Jewish people in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Yotam Kipnis wrote about how ‘Eliasi blamed American Jews for the Pittsburgh murders and European Jews for the Holocaust’.

Eliasi wrote on Facebook that the Pittsburgh murderer Bowers “was a man fed up with subversive progressive Jewish leftists injecting their sick agendas” into the US.  He added that HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society,

brings in infiltrators that destroy every country. The murderer was fed up with people like you. Jews like you brought the Holocaust and now you’re causing anti-semitism. Stop bringing in hate money from Soros.

Eliasi is known for his far-right views and is a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party. He is also a Jewish anti-Semite but one Netanyahu likes.

It is ironic that whereas the ‘anti-Semitic’ Hamas condemned the Pittsburgh massacre, the Israeli government and Netanyahu in particular were hesitant to do so. These were the wrong sort of Jews. Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Blau, refused even to recognise that those killed were Jewish, because they were Reform Jews.

Another aspect of Zionist ideology is the belief that the Jews of Europe were responsible for the Holocaust. By choosing to live amongst non-Jews they brought the disaster on themselves. Zionism holds that all non-Jews are inherently anti-Semitic.

These are the sick fantasies that Zionists harbour amongst themselves but seek to hide from the glare of publicity. There will be many in Israel who will welcome what happened in Australia.

That is why any supporter of the Palestinians who welcomes the massacre of Jews in Sydney, notwithstanding that many of them will have supported the genocide in Gaza, needs their head examining. The massacre can only strengthen the genocidaires, not weaken them.

Supporting the massacre in Sydney, apart from being an immoral and racist, terrorist attack on civilians, would be the height of stupidity and irresponsibility. It strengthens not weakens Zionism.

It is irrelevant if London-born rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed, was a genocide supporter. Pictures of Schlanger celebrating with members of the murderous IDF do not justify what happened. That Schlanger was a despicable racist who was pictured with an Israeli rifle makes no difference. He died in Australia not in Israel.

We should leave it to Israel to take pride in the massacre of children and civilians and we should also note the hypocrisy of our own British politicians and members of the judiciary like Stephen Males and Karen Steyn who ruled that the government can export parts for the F35 and other weapons despite the fact that they would be used to commit war crimes. The crimes of British judges are many.

Tony Greenstein