Drawing a Line in the Sand 

Being bluntly honest about the Bondi Beach blood bath 

As with every instance of Islamic terrorism in a Western nation, we all talk about it. The politicians and leaders around the world offer their ritual expressions of shock and horror. Platitudes are uttered, heads are bowed, candles are lit. 

And, of course, nothing changes. 

Coincidence or connection?

Nothing changes in policy. Nothing changes in the solutions offered. And nothing changes in the rinse-and-repeat pattern of Islamic terrorism followed by brief platitudes followed by more Islamic terrorism. 

Fifteen innocent people are dead this time, including a little girl. People whose only crime was to go to the beach on the wrong day. People whose only crime was being Jewish. All murdered by a father-and-son team of Muslim terrorists. 

Last year the French think-tank Fondapol released the most comprehensive analysis of global Islamic terrorism ever produced. That study discovered that between 1979 and April 2024, Islam was responsible for 66,872 terrorist attacks globally, causing at least 249,941 deaths. The rate of these attacks has been rapidly increasingly: 84.4 per cent come from 2013 onwards. 

Between 1979 and April 2024, Islam was responsible for 66,872 terrorist attacks globally, causing at least 249,941 deaths. 

By pure coincidence, the same period which saw a massive increase of Islamic terrorism in Western nations saw a massive increase in Muslim immigration from war-torn nations including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya, along with EU-applicant Turkey and various other Muslim nations. By another remarkable coincidence, the nations which have welcomed the most Islamic refugees (France, Germany, Sweden, the UK) have seen the most Islamic terror attacks, while the nations which closed their borders to such arrivals (Poland and Hungary, both defying EU orders) have avoided such attacks. 

It’s a mystery where these attacks come from, isn’t it? 

Predictable platitudes

In the case of the Bondi Beach massacre the general extreme Islamic instruction to kill infidels is united to the same kind of Koranic messages regarding what to do with Jews, and by Muhammad’s personal example which is revered and referenced by jihadists worldwide. Muhammad ordered the beheading of Jewish captives. Leftists and Islamic terrorist apologists in the West, always ready to cite the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza or previous Israeli-Palestinian conflicts or Western wars in the Middle East, are curiously silent on the fact that the Koran contains instructions to kill or enslave Jews written long before modern Israel existed and long before the Iraq Wars too. 

All these are background points that no mainstream politician would dare to discuss. 

Following the Bondi Beach massacre, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a typical globalist and liberal leftist who favours mass immigration and avoids discussing its negative consequences, made a perfunctory visit to ‘pay his respects’. Notably, he did not publicly meet grieving vigil holders or family membng reported by Rebel News and the Jewish Australian journalist Avi Yemini. By contrast, his right-wing opponent Pauline Hanson did so, in a meeting reported by Rebel News and the Jewish Australian journalist Avi Yemini. 

The Koran contains instructions to kill or enslave Jews written long before modern Israel existed and long before the Iraq Wars too. 

Elsewhere, globalist Western leaders who have invited in huge numbers of Muslim immigrants delivered the usual condolences, including those who have long engaged in viciously anti-Semitic commentary. Irish President Catherine Connolly for example said this: ‘I wish to offer my deepest sympathy to the Jewish community everywhere at this time, mindful of the beginning of this Hanukkah period.’

The Irish example

She has a long history of anti-Semitic comments. In 2021 she accused Israel of pursuing ‘Jewish supremacy’, and has referred to Israel as ‘a terrorist State’ and ‘an apartheid State’. Like many other leftists and globalists, she sees the Israeli response to Hamas terrorism as a ‘genocide’.

Similarly Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin said: ‘This latest evil act in Sydney is a further manifestation of the murderous hate spawned by anti-Semitism.’

In 2024 Martin accused Israel of ‘the horrific slaughter’ of civilians and pressed for a change of the international law definition of genocide so that his feeling that what Israel was doing (‘it’s definitely genocidal’) became the new standard on what constitutes genocide. 

Former Irish cabinet minister Alan Shatter was scathing in his response to the words of condolence coming from an Irish administration that is itself steeped in anti-Semitic rhetoric. He said: ‘Toxic debates in our parliament, protests on our streets, the conduct of political parties, trade unions, university boards, the IPSC (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign) have normalised anti-Semitic rhetoric and anti-Semitism. Irish sport is increasingly contaminated and Jewish children feel intimidated in our schools. Unprecedented security is required at the location of Irish Jewish institutions.

The Irish case provides perhaps the most glaring example of the fundamental disconnect between the platitudes offered in response to terrorism that targets Jews and the policies and rhetoric employed by the same people when discussing Israel.

‘Recently the Taoiseach criticised what he depicted as a “perception of antisemitism in Ireland”.’ But in doing so, Mr Shatter claimed, he ‘chose to ignore the anti-Semitism in which the campaign is firmly rooted’ and also validated RTE’s withdrawal from Eurovision in protest at Israel’s inclusion.
(From News Letter, Philip Bradfield, December 14, 2025). 

Fundamental disconnect

The Irish case provides perhaps the most glaring example of the fundamental disconnect between the platitudes offered in response to terrorism that targets Jews and the policies and rhetoric employed by the same people when discussing Israel. Let’s be clear on this: you cannot run around falsely accusing Israel of genocide, and constantly and obsessively describing the world’s only Jewish nation as genocidal and brutal maniacs subject to standards of warfare in response to terrorism you don’t apply to anyone else, without building the exact same narratives about Jews that jihadists believe in, that Nazis believed in, and that are contained in minds and actions of Islamic terrorists. 

You cannot spend months or years saying the same things as the jihadists say to justify their murders of Jewish civilians, and then pretend to be shocked, outraged and on the side of decency when Jews are murdered on Bondi beach or anywhere else in the Western world. 

Western leaders have condoned Islamic terrorism every time they condemned Israel’s response to that terrorism. When France, Britain and a few other Western nations decided to recognise Palestine, they rewarded Hamas terrorism, and the move was welcomed and praised by the Hamas leadership. 

That’s the truth that must be avoided at all costs. That’s why these Muslim atrocities are never described as Muslim atrocities.

The platitudes of these leaders, shocking enough when one considers that they and their political forebears welcomed Islamic terrorism into the West through open borders and mass migration, must be particularly sickening to Jews who have also had to listen to constant blood libels from the same mainstream political figures. 

The truth avoided at all costs

And contrast that with how these people respond to Islamic terrorism. What are the honest words you will never hear in those fake condolences and those carefully limited expressions of ‘shock’ and ‘horror’? They are: ‘I blame Islam’. 

That’s the truth that must be avoided at all costs. That’s why these Muslim atrocities are never described as Muslim atrocities. That’s why we are told these attacks ‘won’t divide’ or that we are ‘united against hate’. We get all that vague, platitudinous, saccharine rubbish precisely because the people sharing it are themselves recklessly anti-Semitic in their attitudes to Israel and themselves cravenly submissive in their attitudes to Islam. We get the candle waving and the pious waffle because the policies won’t change and who is guilty can’t be acknowledged. 

The media have of course displayed the same dishonesties and evasions, and now concentrate on the fact that two civilians who intervened to save lives are from non-white backgrounds. But the unusual confluence of the fact that the murder spree of two Muslims also saw the bravery and heroism of two men of non-European descent should not be allowed cynically and grotesquely to matter more than the innocent dead.

Is there ever going to be a line in the sand where dishonest platitudes on this terrorism are no longer accepted, or just more blood on more beaches? 

The truth is that none of the Jews of Sydney commit atrocities. They have been building decent, honest and contributing lives for generations. They have been praying, not killing. They have been working, not plotting murder. They have built families, not murdered them.

An online friend is a Jewish Australian very familiar with Bondi beach and the surrounding area. An area she loves has been drenched in the blood of her people. For what? For more candles and deflections? Do we just rake the sand, move the bodies aside, and do it all again and again and again, with the same anti-Semitic vitriol falling from the same lips, the same invitation to Islamic terrorism in every immigration policy, and the same refusal to face what religion the murderers belong to or what nations they come from? 

Or will we finally start to be honest, after getting the same bloody message and the same useless responses 68,872 times or more? 

Is there ever going to be a line in the sand where dishonest platitudes on this terrorism are no longer accepted, or just more blood on more beaches? 

(Top image Bondi Beach - c/o  wikipedia)

This article was first published in TCW - reproduced here with kind permission