Bondi beach mass shooting

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Just horrendous. There was a big Jewish gathering on the beach. Jewish festival goers targeted by two gunmen. At least ten people dead according to police.

Perhaps you read early reports with scant details, but it turns out that the gunmen targeted Jewish people attending a Jewish festival, Chanukah by the Sea. It was an event for Jewish families.

I agree with this.

Why not? It’s a video showing the brave actions of a man disarming a jihadist terrorist. Do you have an issue with that. What is it about this video you would rather people didn’t see? Jihadist shooting at Jews (yet again)??? People are fed up of being told to look the other way

Why are they racist?? Explain!

The lens being some sort of immigrants are dangerous and create communal mayhem? Only white bigots are allowed to be criticised? Which agenda is worse?

Islam is not a race.

This is so terrible. It was a Hanukkah event, how can anyone pretend that’s not obviously going to be predominantly Jewish people in attendance? You might have a few staff working the food stalls and lifeguards, some Jewish people may have invited non-Jewish friends to join them, but this was clearly targeting Jewish people. I’m not quite sure why anyone would pretend that wasn’t the case and it’s just a coincidence Jews are the ones who’ve died.

The disgusting rhetoric around Israel/Jews/Palestine etc has caused this and it’s only going to get worse. Even here on this thread there’s purposeful ostriches pretending we aren’t sure of the motives. Absolutely shameful cowardice and pretence.

It would test your Hippocratic oath, for sure. For me, I'd be motivated by the fact that saving him would mean he faced justice.

What? An agenda for the truth? Saying Terrorists with names typically associated with Islamic cultures gunning down Jewish families - what motivation do you think there was here????

Why? It was a statement of fact.

I’m Australian and I am just devastated about this attack on our Jewish Australians. Our Prime Minister should hang his head in shame for his weak pathetic response to the growing antisemitism in Australia that started on October 2023 when he refused to condemn the hate march at the Sydney Opera House which celebrated the biggest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. He allowed the weekly Globalise the Intifada marches to continue unabated, even to the point that his electoral office was shuttered for over a year due to protests outside that he would not end, for fear of losing votes in crucial Western Sydney seats.

The great Labor leaders of the past, like Bob Hawke, must be rolling in their graves over our current government’s abandonment of Jewish Australians.

Just adding my sympathies for all the people affected by this.

extremists of any faith are dangerous individuals.

just utterly tragic.

I don't blame you.

i can't go, so it's taken the decision out of my hands, but I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to go if I could.

I'm not at all religious, so won't use the word pray, but I wish I could think of a better word than 'hope' for it taking place without incident.

Fascists are killing Jews on the beach. Not an ideal link, but one seems to cancel the other out I’d say.

Albanese hates Jewish people. I don't know how he dares weigh in on this.

It’s called fear.

Fear that if they dare to speak the truth, they will be the next target.

I'm an Australian Jew living in the UK. Agree with every word. Plus Penny Wong's shameful refusal to visit the site of October 7 and refusing to see the footage Hamas took of themselves murdering people.

He couldn’t even mention them in his press release. Fucking wanker. At least Chris Minns was unequivocal and clear saying it was a targeted attack on the Jewish community.

I think the real motivation was simply evil. Non-evil people are able to listen to people from all cultures and religions without killing the people from one of them. And murder is a sin in the Koran. These acts are pure evil dressed up, because evil monsters have to pretend they have a cause. They tend not to say "I killed all these people because I'm an absolute piece of evil shit." They pretend it's in the name of religion, when all religious texts actually preach that murder is a terrible sin.

The car they covered with the black flag??

if so, I don't know why it's taken so long to find the bomb. I'd have thought they'd have taken a fine tooth comb to it immediately

Well, yes, but we don't seem to have a problem with extremist Quakers or to have to put up bollards around Christmas markets in case some Sikhs get out of hand. You can't resolve the problem unless you recognise the problem.

Exactly! Until we admit what the problem is things will only get worse and worse. Everyone knows who it is.