Jewish organisations, Muslim groups and other community organisations have strongly condemned the December 14 antisemitic shootings in Bondi, Sydney, which killed 15 people.

Some of these groups are making strong calls for unity, warning against governments exploiting the killings and a climate of fear, to enact new anti-protest laws and racist anti-migration laws.

Meanwhile, Zionist groups and figures are exploiting the tragedy to blame the Palestinian solidarity movement for the deaths. Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal explicitly linked the peaceful 300,000-strong anti-genocide march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the killings in Bondi.

Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) executive officer Max Kaiser told Deepcut News that Segal’s recent comments are “highly irresponsible”, and that “this should immediately disqualify her from being taken at all seriously on the issue of antisemitism”.

Segal, since being appointed in July last year, has attacked peaceful anti-genocide protests as “antisemitic”, with no evidence. Meanwhile, she has remained conspicuously silent on rising neo-Nazi activity, such as the National Socialist Network’s police-approved stunt outside NSW parliament last month.

The wave of abuse, doxxing and death threats directed at anti-Zionist Jews, such as Judith Trainor and Michelle Berkon, following the Bondi shooting shows how little Zionists care about protecting all Jews.

Jewish journalist Dave Zirin, writing for the Nation, said that Zionists are “exploiting our dead” by “tying this tragedy to their own nationalist project for personal gain”.

“They are relentless in their message that standing for Palestinian existence in the face of annihilation makes you party to this atrocity, which is an obscene........

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