This is not a time to mince words. Moral clarity is our sole duty on this dark day. What happened in Bondi in Sydney was an act of fascist barbarism. It was a pogrom on a beach. It was a massacre of Jews that brought to mind the horrors of the mid-20th century. If this pitiless atrocity doesn’t prise open the eyes of the West, nothing will.

It is undeniable now that the unhinged hatred for the world’s only Jewish state has reanimated a medieval-like loathing for the Jewish people

The details are beyond grim. At least eleven people mercilessly slain in an attack targeted at Sydney’s Jewish community. More than a thousand Jews had gathered near a playground at Bondi to mark the first day of Hanukkah. Then two men opened fire. They marked the innocents for death. It was an act of savage racial hatred.

Australian officials have confirmed that rancid Jewphobia was the fuel of this crime against humanity. This ‘evil attack’ was ‘designed to target Sydney’s Jewish community’, says New South Wales premier Chris Minns. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it ‘an act of evil anti-Semitism’. It is almost beyond belief that a Nazi-style slaughter of Jews could occur at this famously chilled beach. Is nowhere safe from the pox of Jew........

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