Sunday’s attack in Sydney, in which gunmen opened fire on a public Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach—killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more—is the latest in a string of anti-Jewish attacks since October 7. These include the May murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, D.C., the terror attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, and numerous other assaults and threats, all of which have accompanied a wider anti-Jewish hysteria now normalized across many sectors of society.
Though no manifesto has yet been released, the attack on Bondi Beach follows a clear and escalating pattern: Jews being targeted as a result of the intensifying anti-Jewish environment since October 7.
This latest assault only reaffirms the ongoing reality of anti-Zionism as an essentially violent ideology—one that drives out Jewish communities wherever it takes hold, through exclusion, discrimination, and even murder.
