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Bondi Beach Massacre Was Never About Gaza
Dear Editor:
This was never about Gaza. This was never about Palestine.
The Bondi Beach Massacre must be a clarifying moment. Not only for Australians, but for the world.
Ask yourself, what does the slaughter of 15 Jews on a sunny Sydney beach have to do with Gaza? The answer is stunningly obvious: absolutely nothing.
The radicals who committed this atrocity, the Imams who taught them, the communities–local and online–who nurtured them, the demonstrators who provided them legitimacy (don’t deny it) and the Petrodollars that funded them all, did not act in solidarity with the Palestinians.
Rather they acted out of a vile, ancient hatred, a demon who again walks our streets with impunity. It’s same hated that brought to the near extinction of the Jewish people 85 years ago and, wherever unchecked, leaves a trail of death and destruction. The same hatred that brought October 7th.
Israel was never the problem. The problem is and always was radical Islam, its comrades and apologists.
In Australia, the UK, France and America, leaders need to decide. Do they want their streets to become killing fields? To progressively lose their rights (pun intended), starting with the right to criticize Mohammed’s wild offspring? To see their women dragged back to the Middle Ages? To ultimately be enslaved by a dark, violent and increasingly popular version of Islam?
To protect Jews is to protect the freedoms that have allowed the world’s most vilified people to flourish. To protect Jews is to protect Australia and the West.
This was never, ever about Gaza.
Sincerely
Darren Rockman
Australia
Expecting a Lynching
Dear Editor:
Israeli security officials told the Walla media agency this week they are increasingly worried about Israeli Jews entering Palestinian Authority-ruled cities and being “lynched or murdered.”
They noted that during the past year, “several lynchings were narrowly averted” when Israeli motorists accidentally took a wrong turn into a PA city, or visited there to go shopping. In one instance, Walla recalled, “Palestinians chased and smashed an Israeli vehicle” that entered Nablus (Shechem).
The report also cited the case of Amnon Mukhtar, a 67 year-old Israeli grandfather who entered PA-governed Kalkilya in June 2024 to buy vegetables. He believed he was safe since the local merchants knew him well. Mukhtar was shot to death. “The next disaster is a matter of time,” one security source told Walla.
How is it that thirty years after the signing of the Oslo accords, the mere sight of a Jew inspires Palestinian Arabs to commit murder?
The PA has had three decades to raise Palestinian children to embrace peace and coexistence, as the Oslo agreements require. Thirty years—meaning that most children born in the PA territories today not only have never known Israeli “occupation,” but their parents haven’t, either.
The answer to the question of “Why do they still yearn to lynch Jews?” may be found in a report earlier this month from Palestinian Media Watch.
It seems that senior PA education officials celebrated the UN’s “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” by holding an event with children in Tulkarm to glorify anti-Israel hatred and violence.
The Facebook page of the PA Directorate of Education for Tulkarm featured photos of children at the event, holding posters declaring their desire to “die like proud lions for Palestine”; describing “the scent of Martyrs” as “sweeter than a jasmine flower”; and maps showing all of Israel labeled “Palestine.”
Thirty years of teaching such ideas in PA schools, summer camps, and mosques…thirty years of PA leaders making speeches with these themes…thirty years of the PA paying salaries to terrorists and the families of dead terrorists—that’s what produces an entire generation eager to lynch Jews.
Sincerely
Prof Rafael Medoff
Mamdani’s Enemies on Wall Street?
Dear Editor:
The Democrats of New York City elected Zohran Mamdani, an openly antisemitic Islamist and socialist to be their mayor. This does not bode well for the city that was attacked on 9-11, nor for the rest of us.
He was endorsed by Barak Obama, the president who welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood into his administration.
The west has been under assault since 1928, when Hassan al-Banna formed the Brotherhood in Egypt. Its aim is to replace Infidel societies with a Caliphate. Its headquarters are in Qatar, whose royal family is closely associated with the Mamdani family.
Israel, the ‘Small Satan’, blocks the way to the ‘Great Satan’, America.
Gazans swarmed and ravished southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. 40,000 dormant web-sites sprung into action. Propaganda, flags, placards and tents appeared on campuses the day after.
The organizations behind these radicals are intact. There are sleeper-cells everywhere, awaiting instructions. Mamdani’s election will embolden those planning our demise.
Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tucker Carlson’s Influence on American Political Discourse
Dear Editor:
Tucker Carlson’s influence on American political discourse is undeniable. That is precisely why his recent trajectory should alarm anyone concerned about the moral health of the conservative movement and the safety of Jewish Americans. Carlson has not merely flirted with dangerous ideas; he has repeatedly legitimized them by granting his platform to individuals and narratives steeped in antisemitism, conspiracy, and historical falsehood.
Antisemitism today rarely announces itself with crude slurs alone. It more often appears as insinuation: suggestions of “dual loyalty,” claims that Jews wield shadowy control over politics or media, or the framing of Jewish support for Israel as uniquely suspect. Carlson has trafficked in these tropes with growing regularity, whether by attacking “Christian Zionists” as diseased, portraying Jewish Americans as drivers of unwanted foreign entanglements, or hosting figures who deny the Holocaust or praise regimes that persecuted Jews. He may not always voice these claims directly, but by normalizing them through sympathetic interviews and unchallenged airtime, he amplifies their reach and legitimacy.
The damage extends beyond the Jewish community. Carlson’s rhetoric has deepened and poisoned divisions on the American right. Conservatism once prided itself on moral clarity against bigotry and totalitarian ideologies. Today, thanks in part to Carlson’s megaphone, the right is embroiled in a corrosive internal war over whether antisemitism should be confronted or excused as mere “foreign policy disagreement.” That is not healthy pluralism; it is moral confusion.
A conservative movement that tolerates antisemitism, even indirectly, betrays its own principles. Tucker Carlson did not create this crisis alone, but he has done more than most to accelerate it. That is why his rhetoric deserves scrutiny, condemnation, and unequivocal rejection.
Sincerely
Steve Prescott
Manitoba, Canada