Opposition leader Peter Dutton joined Zionist and far-right groups ramping up attacks pro-Palestinian protests and Muslim communities in the wake of unrelated stabbing incidents in Westfield Bondi Junction on April 13 and an Assyrian church in Wakeley on April 15.

Six people died and 12 were injured in the first attack, allegedly carried out by a white Australian with mental health problems. It was not declared a terrorist act.

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Within hours of the second attack — allegedly carried out by a 16-year-old boy from a Muslim community who is being assessed for mental health problems — NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb officially declared it a “terrorist incident”. No one was seriously injured or killed.

The conservative Zionist Australian Jewish Association (AJA) on April 15 accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of being “asleep at the wheel”.

“How many warnings have they had about rising Islamic extremism in Australia? Months of radical incitement has gone unchecked … All the........

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