Australias government failed its Jews in the long runup to Bondi Beach attack

In the wake of Sunday’s Bondi Beach terror attack on a gathering to celebrate the start of Hanukkah, Australia’s leaders should be facing some very tough questions about their failure to fight antisemitism.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese failed to heed multiple warnings about the rising tide of hate — including from human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky (himself wounded Sunday), who spoke out Dec.1 after graffiti reading “F–k Zionist Israel,” and “Israel has blood on their hands,” appeared on Bondi Beach overnight.And Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu wrote Albanese months ago, thundering that his call to recognize a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire” and “emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”That hate has been growing ever-worse since Hamas’ Oct.

7, 2022, atrocities.Just two days after those terror attacks, well before Israel’s counterattack began, a mob of roughly 1,000 rallied at the Sydney Opera House in support of Hamas.The event was rife with antisemitism, reportedly even with a chant of “Gas the Jews”: one speaker denounced Israel as a “colonialist” state that “will only be overcome by greater violence.”And various Aussies have been delivering such violence ever since.Last December saw an arson attack on an Orthodox synagogue in Melbourne; January brought a Sydney synagogue defaced with swastikas and three firebombings in a single week.That same month, police found a trailer packed with explosives and a list of Jewish targets just northwest of Sydney.Antisemitic graffiti has grown common, as well as attacks on Jewish-owned shops; a group of nurses made global headlines for cutting a video where they announced they wouldn’t treat Jews.In the year leading up to Sept.30, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry counted 2,062 antisemitic incidents across the country.But somehow the Aussie elite think Jews are the problem; early this year, femi...