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Opposition MP Julian Leeser demands a royal commission into the Bondi attack, citing inadequate government response amid rising anti-Semitism after Hamas attacks.
- On Monday, Julian Leeser, Opposition MP and Coalition education spokesman, denounced Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and demanded a federal inquiry into the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack that killed Fifteen people.
- The government backed a NSW-led inquiry and launched a narrower federal review led by former intelligence chief Dennis Richardson, while the Coalition proposed a royal commission with broader terms of reference.
- At a Bondi vigil, Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister, was booed multiple times and escorted away, while Allegra Spender, Independent MP for Wentworth, called for a federal and state royal commission.
- The prime minister's approval rating plunged after the Bondi massacre, according to a Resolve survey published on Monday, while Federal Labor faced criticism for failing to address rising anti‑Semitism linked to October 7, 2023.
- Community leaders pressed for a wide-ranging inquiry as funerals for victims, including Boris and Sofia Gurman and Matilda, underscore the attack's human toll and fuel calls for a royal commission.
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Two assassins - father and son - killed 15 people on December 14 during the Jewish light festival Hanukkah. President Herzog "will counteract the increase of anti-Semitism, extremism and jihadist terror.
On the last day of Hanukkah, Professor Natalio Steiner analyzed from Israel an agenda full of global concern: the advance of Islamist terrorism outside the Middle East, the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the West and the internal political controversy in Israel over the investigation of the October 7 massacre. Referring to the anti-Semitic attack in Bondi Beach, Australia, Steiner confirmed facts that aggravate the picture: “It has just been con…
Sydney Anglicans ‘abhor anti-Semitism’, Archbishop says a week after Bondi shootings
THE Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Revd Kanishka Raffel, has told a gathering at the Great Synagogue, in Sydney, that Sydney Anglicans “abhor anti-Semitism . . . and will not turn away from anti-Semitism in silence”. Archbishop Raffel was...
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