Blood On Their Hands |
Bondi Beach is not Israel.
It is not Gaza.
It is not a checkpoint, a settlement, or a war zone.
It is a public beach in Australia. And Jews were attacked there because they were Jews.
In fairness, much of the initial reporting was clear and unambiguous. Political leaders and law enforcement described the attack for what it was: antisemitic violence. Condemnations were swift. The language, at least at first, was direct. No one seriously disputed that Jews had been targeted as Jews.
But even in these early hours, a familiar reflex began to surface—not always loudly, not always maliciously, but predictably. The conversation widened almost immediately. The focus drifted from antisemitism itself to broader themes: social cohesion, geopolitical grievance, the danger of “division,” the need to understand anger and context. Some coverage folded the attack into a generalized climate of hate or unrest. Some responses pivoted quickly to foreign policy, to Gaza, to Israel—before the blood on the sand had even dried.
This is not yet the grotesque justification that often follows such attacks. It is something subtler and more dangerous: the impulse to explain before absorbing, to contextualize before condemning, to soften moral clarity with atmosphere. That instinct did not begin at Bondi Beach. It arrived there fully formed.
This violence did not come out of nowhere. It was not the result of “heightened tensions” or an unfortunate spillover of a distant war. It followed months—years, really—of rhetorical conditioning in which violence against Jews was normalized, rationalized, and laundered into legitimacy by institutions that now insist they bear no responsibility.
They do. They all have Jewish blood on their hands.
Long before the slogans reached the streets, the moral groundwork had already been laid. The philosophical inversion that now defines so much Western discourse on Israel and Jews did not originate with campus radicals alone. It was incubated by influential thinkers who reframed moral agency itself—casting........