“The usual suspects will seek to extract as much political capital from this (Bondi shooting) catastrophe as possible.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, of course, been quick to accuse Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of fuelling “the antisemitic fire” by recognising a Palestinian state, as if Israel’s campaign of mass murder in Gaza had had no bearing on the global tidal wave of support for the Palestinians.
The Murdoch press predictably attacked the Labor government immediately for its weakness in the face of antisemitism, as if the virus of antisemitism hasn’t been a light sleeper in the dreamscape of nations for centuries. The Liberal Party under Sussan Ley inevitably accused the Albanese government of ignoring Jewish Australians for two years; so, too, on cue, Pauline Hanson.
And Jillian Segal, Australia’s special antisemitism envoy, unsurprisingly called on the government to fully endorse her controversial strategy for combating antisemitism, a strategy that, in this Jewish man’s opinion, holds terrifying implications for how justifiable criticism of Israel will be further conflated with antisemitism.”