Could it be that the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre will be the tipping point? Could it be that the world will finally wake up to the murderous nature of antisemitic rhetoric? Could it be that, at last, there will be a massive pushback against the radical ideologies that fuel this bloody fire and against the social media feeding frenzies that help stoke these sentiments?

Look for a moment at these dates, all from the last five years. What do they have in common?

October 27, 2018. April 27, 2019. October 9, 2019. December 28, 2019. May 9, 2023. October 7, 2023. October 12, 2024. October 2, 2025. December 14, 2025.

On all these dates, Jews were killed (or attacked) on a Sabbath or Jewish holy day simply because they were Jews.

From the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, PA, on October 27, 2018, during a weekly Sabbath service, to the Poway, California, synagogue shooting on Passover, April 27, 2019.

From the Yom Kippur attack on a Jewish girls' school in Toronto (thankfully, without fatality or injury) on October 12, 2024, to the fatal Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, on October 2, 2025.

From the attempted arson of a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, this past July during a Sabbath dinner to the Bondi Beach, Australia, massacre on the first day of Hanukkah this very week.

The pattern is the same, with the unimaginably gruesome massacre of October 7, 2023, standing as a massive exclamation point in the midst of the carnage.

From Israel to Australia, from America to Canada, and from England to Tunisia, the pattern is the same: Jewish children, women, and men were butchered while they worshiped in synagogues.

Or while they participated in Jewish religious ceremonies.

Or while they went about their business on a Jewish holy day.

In three of the instances listed above, the motivation was far-right, White Supremacist, Jew hatred. In all other instances, save one, the motivation was radical Islamist Jew hatred. In all cases, the results were the same: a river of Jewish blood. (And should I also mention the murder of two Israeli embassy staff members on May 21, 2025, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington,........

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