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AN IDF intelligence officer attacked Anthony Albanese for not mentioning the word Jewish at his press conference in the wake of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday.
The IDF officer, Miri Eisin, told Fox News in the US it “really disturbed” her that “the Prime Minister of Australia did not say the word Jewish, he did not say the word terrorist, it was all about equality – this was an attack against Jews on the first night of Hannukah and it needs to be said.”
Albanese in fact condemned the attack as “an evil act of anti-semitism” and he did mention “Australia’s Jewish community” as being the target. Sixteen people are now reported to have been killed by the two gunmen.
Yesterday the Israeli President Isaac Hertzog condemned the attack and urged Australia to “seek action and fight against the enormous wave of antisemitism that is plaguing Australian society”.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also joined in the condemnation of the Albanese government, accusing them of pouring “fuel on the antisemitism fire” by recognising a Palestinian state.
“I call upon you to replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve. Instead, prime minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement,” he said.
Pro-Israel defence and security analyst Babak Taghvaee continued the attack on Albanese in a post on X, noting that the shooter Khaled al-Nablusi, the father of the other alleged shooter Naveed Akram, was a Lebanese national of Palestinian descent.
“There are hundreds of Lebanese Muslim extremists living freely in Sydney. This attack did not occur in a vacuum. Following the October7 terrorist massacre by Hamas, extremist demonstrations of Lebanese and other Muslim extremists took place in Sydney, where participants openly celebrated Hamas and chanted calls for violence against Jews,” he said.
“Australian authorities failed to intervene or enforce the law, sending a clear signal of tolerance toward incitement. Instead of dismantling extremist networks, the government allowed Islamic centers linked to radical ideology—including the Al-Murad Institute—to continue operating.
“These institutions have played a role in radicalizing youth and even children, creating the conditions that produced terrorists like Naveed Akram from Pakistan. Counterterrorism fails when governments ignore ideological incubators. Silence and inaction enable terrorism.”
But there’s not just one side to this story. We would not be surprised if the perpetrators of this attack were driven by some sort of desire for revenge and retribution against Israel in the bitter and long-running war between Palestinians, Lebanese and Israelis.
