The media reaction to the attack on Jewish individuals at Bondi Beach has revealed far more about entrenched bias and selective outrage than about the incident itself. Within hours, large sections of the press and broadcast media shifted their focus away from the facts and towards exploiting the attack to mount a broader assault on pro-Palestine demonstrations around the world, branding them as dangerous, extremist, and complicit in violence.

This response was neither measured nor responsible. Instead, it followed a familiar and deeply troubling pattern: an isolated criminal act was rapidly weaponised to smear a global protest movement that has consistently mobilised against mass killing, genocide, and state violence — particularly Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza.

Across programmes and headlines, references were made to “globalising the intifada”, with pro-Palestine demonstrations implicitly, and at times explicitly, placed in the dock. This framing deliberately obscured a basic truth. Our demonstrations have always been against killing, mass slaughter, and genocide. They are protests against the destruction of civilian life, not against Jewish people or any other community. To suggest otherwise is to engage in distortion, not analysis.

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What makes this media offensive especially hollow is the identity........

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