The terror attack on Bondi Beach was not a tragic, one-off incident. It was an antisemitic act of terrorism, carried out against Jews because they were Jews — exactly as the Islamist movements that have inspired the perpetrator’s ideology have done time and again. Bondi Beach is not a break with a pattern; it is a confirmation of a pattern that accelerated dramatically after 7 October and is now unfolding across the West with brutal predictability.
Since Hamas’ massacres on 7 October, we have witnessed an explosion of antisemitic violence and intimidation across Europe. In London, synagogues and kosher businesses were vandalised. In Paris, Jewish homes were marked with Stars of David. In Berlin, people wearing kippahs were assaulted, and a Jewish nursery was firebombed. In Vienna, Jewish cemeteries were desecrated. In Copenhagen, police advised Jews against wearing visible symbols in public.
All of this is part of the same phenomenon: a globalised antisemitism driven by political Islam and its Western fellow-travellers.
A straight line: from the streets of Paris, London and Copenhagen to Bondi Beach
Anyone who has witnessed the countless demonstrations that have filled Europe’s major cities since 7 October knows this is not about peace, but about an ideological struggle against Jews and against the West. Slogans such as “From the river to the sea” and “Global intifada now” have echoed through European streets — not as abstract political chants, but as direct calls to continue the violence initiated by Hamas.
When people chant “global intifada”, they cannot feign surprise when the intifada becomes global.
When a message calling for the eradication of Jewish self-determination is normalised, it cannot be dismissed as harmless rhetoric.
This is where the connection lies: Bondi Beach is the concrete manifestation of the narrative that has been marching freely through Europe’s streets, flanked by the useful idiots of the left and by state-funded media outlets that have covered these demonstrations with near-tender understanding and a striking absence of criticism.
Western leaders refuse to acknowledge it. But there is a direct line from the Hamas sympathies on Europe’s streets to the terror attack on Bondi Beach.
The terror reaction playbook – which we refuse to abandon
The most frustrating aspect of Bondi Beach is not that it happened — but that we knew exactly how the reactions would unfold. They follow a playbook we have seen countless times before:
1. The ideology behind the attack is described as “peaceful”.
Islam is discussed carefully and deferentially, as if any criticism in itself were extremism, and as if political Islamism and Islam were inseparable and therefore beyond analysis.
2. Aggressive antisemitic rhetoric is excused or rationalised.
The slogans used at demonstrations — the threats, the fantasies of annihilation — are treated as “activism”, as ordinary political expression, as something a democracy must tolerate.
3. Warnings are dismissed as “Islamophobia”.
Those who warn of consequences are shamed, marginalised or labelled alarmists. The first people to speak the truth are treated as the problem.
4. When terror strikes, everyone is shocked.
As if no one could have foreseen it. As if ideology does not matter. As if slogans mean nothing.
5. Centre-left politicians organise vigils and wring their hands.
Speeches are made about unity, love and community. Candles are lit, tears are shed, and “Imagine” and Kringsatt av fiender are sung. Very little is said about why the attack happened.
6. Then: nothing.
No action. No change of course. No reckoning. We wait for the next attack — and repeat the ritual.
This pattern has repeated itself for two decades. Bondi Beach follows it with almost surgical precision.
The West’s blind spot: ideological infiltration
What Western societies refuse to acknowledge is that these are not isolated incidents, but part of a systematic anti-Western and antisemitic infiltration, rooted in the same ideological network: the Muslim Brotherhood and its global offshoots.
Hamas is not an aberration, but a consequence.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are not peace marches, but ideological assertions.
And the left — as in Iran in 1979 — once again becomes a historically illiterate accomplice to a movement that seeks to destroy everything the left claims to defend: democracy, equality, freedom of expression.
It is tragicomic. And it is dangerous.
A West without a breaking point
The most disturbing aspect of Bondi Beach is not the attack itself, but our response. We have no breaking point. No moment at which we say: “Enough is enough.”
Instead, we insist on treating each terror attack as an isolated event — never as a thread in the web woven by the Brotherhood and its ideological relatives. We continue to stretch the boundaries of what is considered normal until those boundaries can no longer sustain us.
Bondi Beach shows us once again that the West is willing to let normality erode until we have lost everything: our countries, our culture, our values — and ultimately our self-respect and stamina.
