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Sunday, December 14, 2025

Bondi Beach





The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach

By David Frum

It’s long past time to stop saying “Anti-Semitic violence has no place in our society.” Outrage upon outrage confirms that anti-Semitic violence has a large and expanding place in Western societies—that it is supported by many, that it is tolerated by many more, and that it is often appeased or even enabled by governments fearful of confronting large and militant factions within their populations.

For months before today’s mass killing on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australia has been afflicted by repeated incidents of anti-Jewish harassment and intimidation. The outrages began just two days after the October 7 Hamas terror attacks in Israel, with a demonstration at the Sydney Opera House that included a chant of “Fuck the Jews.” Dozens more such demonstrations followed across the country. Curses soon escalated into crimes ...


This is why Mamdani refusing to reject "globalize the intifada" has been seen as so problematic.

It's time that we Democrats stop pretending that spreading hate and disinformation about Israel doesn't feed antisemitism, and it's time we were honest with ourselves about the influence Middle Eastern immigrant populations have, both here and in Europe, on our politics.

If you don't think that latter point is true, think back to when Arab American voters in Michigan decided to vote for Trump in the last election because they were mad at Biden for helping Israel after Oct 7 ...



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