"Just hours after the shooting that killed 15 people and hospitalized 38, Netanyahu boasted that he had been warning Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for months that his policies are accelerating antisemitism. "Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists," he said. He then likened the policy to a "cancer" and said that it was a sign of "weakness.""
""You let the disease [of antisemitism] spread, and the result was the attack on Jews we saw today," Netanyahu said at a press conference. He went on to say that attackers like the ones responsible for the Bondi Beach shooting "attack us because they attack the West," and linked the shooting, without evidence, to the killing of U.S. service members in Syria this weekend."
Fifteen people were killed and 38 hospitalized in a shooting at a Hanukkah event in Bondi Beach. Benjamin Netanyahu publicly blamed Australia's calls for a Palestinian state for accelerating antisemitism and linked that to the attack, calling such policies a "cancer" and "weakness." He said attackers target Jews because they "attack the West" and tied the shooting, without evidence, to recent U.S. service member deaths in Syria. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese rejected that framing, emphasized unity and support for the Jewish community, and reaffirmed commitment to a two-state solution. Australia recognized a Palestinian state in September with conditions.
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