A child of 10 with her face painted for a party was among 16 people who died in the Bondi shooting. In Australia last weekend, other people were unknowingly tasting their last latkes in celebration of Hanukkah when two men riddled them with gunfire on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. When news broke of the brutality on Bondi Beach, politicians, human rights campaigners and commentators will have paused to examine their consciences for anything that might have contributed to the killers’ anti-Semitism. Wrong is wrong. Nothing excuses what those two killers did on Bondi Beach.

Source: The Irish Times December 19, 2025 10:41 UTC