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Community leaders argue Islamist immigration and antisemitism — not firearms regulations — drove the deadly Chanukah attack at Bondi Beach.
During the conference, scheduled for Dec. 21–24, participants will receive policy briefings, engage in public diplomacy and take part in workshops.
“Sadly, this attack does not come as a surprise to the Jewish community of Sydney,” the bipartisan lawmakers wrote.
Sharren Haskel, who lived in Australia for six years, said she wouldn’t have believed something like this could happen in one of the safest places in the world for Jews.
Gal Gadot, Ashton Kutcher, Dave Portnoy and Mandy Moore expressed their sorrow in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.
“As a rabbi in Sydney, I implore you not to betray the Jewish people and not God Himself,” wrote Rabbi Schlanger following Australia’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state.
“As in the days of the Maccabees, though we are few against many, we are a state of about 10 million facing many, facing enemies who only recently fought us, numbering some 200 million,” said the Israeli premier.
Anti-Israel demonstrators briefly blocked entrances to the Royal Concert Hall as pro-Israel supporters gathered in solidarity with an Israeli cantor.
“I call upon you to replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve,” said the Israeli prime minister, addressing is Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese.
Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson claimed that Jewish people “own everything” and are “the most powerful community in the world.”
As survivors recall an ultimate horror at the deadly Chanukah attack on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a shocked community struggles to fathom how it happened.
“When called upon to help others around the world, our volunteers have always responded,” said United Hatzalah President Eli Beer.
