THE POLITICISATION OF A MASSACRE

 

The Bondi Beach massacre has been politicised to shield Israel from accountability for its crimes in Gaza.                                                 

THE BONDI Beach massacre should be a moment of grief and solidarity. Two gunmen opened fire on a crowded beach, killing and wounding innocents. But instead of mourning, Zionist organisations and the Israeli government have rushed to spin the bloodshed into 'proof' of rising anti-semitism.  

This isn’t accidental. It’s a tactic. Criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza is being deliberately blurred with hatred of Jews — a sleight of hand designed to silence dissent and shield a state accused of genocide.  

Since October 10, Israel’s so-called ceasefire has killed at least 383 Palestinians and injured more than 1,000. Yet the Western media has barely noticed. Palestinian deaths are background noise. Meanwhile, Bondi will dominate the headlines for days. The contrast is grotesque: hundreds of lives erased in Gaza, ignored; one attack in Sydney, turned into a global spectacle.  This hierarchy of outrage is not simply the product of journalistic inertia; it reflects the ideological filters of empire, where Palestinian suffering is normalised and Western tragedies are amplified.

Israel’s government have wasted no time declaring Bondi proof of 'anti-semitism.' But let’s be clear: calling out the killing of children, the destruction of homes, and the choking of aid is not anti-semitism. It’s moral clarity. Zionist groups in Australia and New Zealand stay silent on Gaza’s atrocities, yet leap to politicise a local tragedy to reinforce Israel’s victimhood narrative. Their silence on Palestinian suffering is complicity. They mourn when it suits their agenda, and they remain silent when mourning would implicate Israel.

Apparently recognising Palestine as a state, as Australia has done, is 'anti-semitic.' In New Zealand, Zionists have even demanded Green MPs be banned from wearing keffiyehs in Parliament. That too, we’re told, is 'anti-semitic.'  And, once again, Green co-leader Chloe Swarbrick is the target for a stream of derogatory and abusive comments from Zionists.

Bondi’s victims are being used as props to obscure Gaza’s dead. Those who call out genocide are branded bigots. Those who excuse it are hailed as defenders of human rights. Western media amplifies the narrative of 'rising anti-semitism' while ignoring the daily slaughter of Palestinians.  

Zionist organisations in Australia have the platforms to condemn mass killing. They choose silence. They mobilise only when it suits Israel’s narrative. Their empathy is conditional, their politics opportunistic. Mourning when convenient, silence when inconvenient.  

The politicisation of Bondi Beach is a cynical ploy to shield Israel from accountability. It thrives on Western bias, on a hierarchy of outrage that values Western lives over Palestinian ones, and on the conflation of criticism with hate.  

To honour Bondi’s victims is to refuse their politicisation. To honour Gaza’s victims is to refuse their erasure. Justice must be universal — whether on a beach in Sydney or under the rubble in Gaza.