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Leaders of Australia’s Jewish community blamed years of unchecked anti-Semitism for the terrorist attack that killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, drawing a direct line between hateful rhetoric and the massacre.
“For two years, people have paraded in our streets and universities calling for the Intifada to be globalised,” Alex Ryvchin, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, told reporters at the scene. “Last night, the Intifada was globalised and came to Bondi.”
Among the dead was Rabbi Eli Schlanger, described by community leaders as a beloved figure who had welcomed a newborn baby just four weeks before the attack. The gunmen reportedly had links to Islamic State and had been examined by ASIO six years ago. Ryvchin rejected the oft-repeated phrase that anti-Semitism has no place in Australia, saying the massacre proved it had “well and truly found a place” in the country.
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