Vultures Over Bondi-Anti Semites Dressed as Friends
In the wake of the horrific terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach, where two gunmen cruelly claimed the lives of fifteen innocent Australians, many of them members of the Jewish community, a meticulously orchestrated procession of ‘dignitaries’, politicians and fame seekers, has converged upon the makeshift memorials.
Like vulture birds circling overhead, these figures perform ritualistic displays of condolence before assembled media throngs, seeking to temper the mounting public indignation over a conflict that the nation neither sought nor invited. A conflict that began in Palestine (now Israel ) in 1948.
From the Governor-General, proxy for the Crown, to the Prime Minister, to former prime minister John Winston Howard,- a man many credit for having unleashed Muslim anger worldwide along with Tony Blair and George Bush Jnr. (“Weapons of Mass Destruction” lie) – provincial potentates, and even AFL gladiators, they parade in a grotesque pageant of self-aggrandizement and performative piety.
Yet these very arbiters of propriety, this mute chorus of the establishment, remained conspicuously reticent when their confrères in governance and jurisprudence crucified Marcus Einfeld, a venerated Jewish jurist, Federal Court Justice, and tireless champion of human rights, over a mere traffic infraction turned into a charge of perjury, consigning him to ignominious imprisonment.
The Subtle Sledgehammer of Australian Xenophobia
In stark contrast, the Australian government of New South Wales, its judiciary, academic and its legal fraternity lionized the late NSW judge Jeff Shaw, a fellow bench warmer who brazenly pilfered his own blood sample from a court vault to conceal evidence of inebriation; he escaped with a perfunctory rebuke, retained his aura of eminence among his WASP brethren at bar and bench, and was ultimately honored with a state funeral upon his demise.
Shaw’s leniency was no aberration. Several judges since have skated by on similar indulgences, their transgressions airbrushed by collegial complicity. Marcus Einfeld’s failings were less grievous and egregous than the sins of non Jewish judges including Guy Andrew, Salvatore Vasta, Dyson Heydon, Murray Gleeson and Michael McHugh to name a few.
How could we forget Helen Demidenko and her “Hand that signed the paper” celebrated by Australia’s Miles Franklin committee and the ALS Gold award they bestowed on her pack of anti Jewish lies?
Mea Culpa Mea Culpa- Absolution and Remission for all our Xenophobic Sins
An oversight? Hardly. This disparity exposes the unexpunged venom of Jew-( and other forms of ethnic) baiting that festers within the WASP ethos of Australia’s elite, a latent malice, meticulously preserved yet seldom paraded at galas or garden parties.
The Chanukah atrocity, perpetrated by alien emissaries of enmity, affords them a convenient ablution: a chance to launder their sins through vicarious atonement, cloaked in the hypocritical vestments of solidarity.
This outpouring of ‘national grief’ underscores Australia’s collective mourning, yet it unfolds against a backdrop of deep-seated contradictions that expose the hypocrisies plaguing all sides in this tragic political maelstrom.
An Attack on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Is An Attack on All Australians
“No man can serve two masters. For he will love the one and hate the other”: Matthew 6:24:26
The Constitution does not explicitly enshrine political parties, acknowledging them only obliquely as an inevitable concomitant of democratic pluralism, manifest in the diverse factions and ideological hues that animate a parliamentary assembly. Yet, irrespective of partisan affiliation, all serve as Ministers of the Crown, bound in fealty to Parliament and to His Majesty’s Government under the stewardship of the Prime Minister.
In a similar vein, Israel’s Ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, crudely articulates a virulent critique that reverberates with underlying acrimony, rebuking the host nation’s leadership whilst vacillating between recognising the victims as Australian citizens and proprietarily designating them as “his people.” This ambivalence affords him a perceived warrant to intrude upon sovereign prerogatives, even as it lays bare the profound dissonance between civic nationality and ethno-religious kinship.
Denial Is Not A River In Egypt
This external finger-pointing reveals Israel’s own contradiction: a nation quick to decry hatred against Jews abroad, yet whose policies under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have fueled global anti-Israel sentiment, often conflated with antisemitism by Zionists to deflect scrutiny from the ongoing devastation in Gaza, described by critics as a humanitarian catastrophe bordering on genocide.
Henry Kissinger on his Anti Semitism and The Jews:
“If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic,” Kissinger said in 1973, according to the authoritative 1992 biography by Walter Isaacson, citing Oval Office recordings. “Any people […] persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.”
Within Australia’s Jewish community, the response further illuminates internal fractures. Many prominent figures and politicians proclaim themselves “Australians first” yet in this moment of vulnerability, their statements reinforce ties to Israel, prioritizing condemnation of local failures over introspection about how Netanyahu’s actions, escalating conflict and ignoring calls for restraint, have exacerbated worldwide hostility toward the Jewish diaspora.
This loyalty, born perhaps of fear and uncertainty, clashes with their professed integration, creating a rift where solidarity with Israel overshadows accountability for policies that breed the very resentment now spilling into violence.
Hate Speech Versus Free Speech and Truth
Dissenting voices within the community, however, offer a poignant counterpoint, only to be marginalized. A few, like an Australian Jewish documentary maker and the solitary daughter of Holocaust survivors, who appeared at the memorial wearing a keffiyeh in solidarity with Palestinian victims, have dared to redirect blame toward Netanyahu, arguing that Israel’s moral authority is eroded by its role in Gaza’s suffering.
Their attempts to remind us that no side holds the ethical high ground are swiftly silenced, revealing the community’s own intolerance for nuance amid grief, a contradiction that mirrors the broader Zionist tendency to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, stifling debate and perpetuating division.
Meanwhile, Australian governments on both sides of the political divide are mired in their own inconsistencies. State leaders in Queensland and New South Wales, quick to announce legislation curbing “hate speech“, a vague measure ripe for abuse, have long ignored calls to reform corrupt judiciaries and address systemic incompetence in the legal system that may have contributed to security lapses.
Federal Liberals, led by figures like a lackluster Sussan Ley, her hollow policy free shadow cabinet and the only ‘bright spot’ in her party, state premier of Queensland, David Crisafulli, strut with opportunistic bravado, exploiting the deaths of innocents to score political points, much like their counterparts across the aisle who now face blame for inaction.
A Nation Mired in Myths of Fairness, Truth and Equality
This bipartisan failure lays bare a vice of mutual culpability: governments decrying foreign interference while fumbling domestic protections, and politicians from all stripes cashing in on tragedy rather than uniting to heal a nation torn by imported conflicts and homegrown neglect.
In this bloodletting, no faction emerges unscathed. The massacre, a targeted outrage against vulnerable innocents, serves as a grim mirror reflecting how unchecked policies abroad, biased narratives at home, and silenced truths everywhere perpetuate a cycle of hate.
True resolution demands confronting these contradictions head-on, lest the fabric of Australian society, woven from diverse threads, unravel further under the weight of unaddressed hypocrisies and the crude, low intellect of the Pauline Hanson’s of this world.
Suspending Reality for Political Opportunism– The Persecution Complex Overreach
Jewish tradition strongly discourages the use of flowers at a funeral or at the gravesite, as it does long speeches, lying and saying things for one’s own aggrandizement viewing them as inappropriate for the solemnity of the occasion. Yet none of these ‘dignitaries’ who showed up at Bondi, Pauline Hanson included, took note of the protocols of Jewish mourning before embarking on their journey of poltical opportunism.
The Jewish Tradition at Funerals and Memorials– In Politics Everything is Opportunism and a Festivity
According to venerable Jewish tradition, as enshrined in the Talmud and elaborated in halakhic sources, floral offerings are proscribed at funerals and memorials, for they evoke festivity rather than solemn mourning. In eulogies, the speaker is enjoined to extol the virtues and righteous deeds of the departed, permitting a measured embellishment to illuminate their merits more vividly, yet falsehoods about the deceased, or the exploitation of such orations for personal aggrandizement, are sternly forbidden.
It was precisely these hallowed precepts that former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, a fervent Zionist and prominent Jewish figure, transgressed in his impassioned diatribes at the Bondi memorials. There, amid the raw grief for fifteen slain Australians, predominantly Jewish, he assailed the Prime Minister with strident echoes of the besieged Israeli government’s undiplomatic rhetoric. In this sacrilegious exchange, members of the Liberal-National Coalition bartered the sanctity of mourning for venomous vilification, prioritizing partisan photo opportunities and courtship of what they perceive as an influential, affluent Zionist lobby over genuine remembrance. In doing so, they obscured a fundamental truth: these were, above all, Australians of Jewish faith, Australians, irrevocably and profoundly.
The Australian media, including the ostensibly impartial ABC, has amplified extended bulletins dominated by commentary from Israel, a foreign government, which sharply criticizes Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for alleged antisemitism and failing to prevent a “foreseeable” attack.
Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, echoes this vitriol, admonishing the host nation’s leadership with his crude tirades disguised as grief. He does this while oscillating between acknowledging the victims as Australian citizens on the one hand while possessively labeling them “his people”, a duality that grants him license to interfere in sovereign affairs, even as it highlights the tension between national allegiance and ethnic solidarity.
Dennis McClusky
