"When news broke of the antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia over the weekend, my first instinct was disbelief. Bondi is sunlight, surf, and happiness, the opposite of the dark, closed world we associate with ethnic hatred. And then came the second thought, the more unsettling one: of course it happened there."
~ Julie Roginsky
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah
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This is How It Starts
The warning signs we recognize only after it’s too lateJulie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"These days, hatred doesn’t require shadows. Increasingly, it reveals itself in broad daylight.
What the Bondi attack exposed was not a new virus but an old one that has learned how to survive in modern conditions. Antisemitism does not announce itself just with uniforms and torches. It reemerges through insinuation, through casual exclusion, through the quiet reclassification of people from neighbors into threats."
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"History teaches that violence is rarely the beginning of this story. It is the punctuation mark at the end of a long paragraph that begins with normalization.
That paragraph was written with chilling clarity in 1930s Germany."
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The attack was timed to inflict emotional cruelty on people of Jewish faith and heritage."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah
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We cannot look away. We owe it to the victims, their families, and future generations.
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"A Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl were also among the victims. It seems impossible that this explanation needs to be offered, but increasingly, it is essential: killing innocent Jews does not help people in Gaza, if, indeed, that was the motivation here."
~ Joyce Vance
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah
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The Week Ahead
Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"One point of light in the tragedy was the bravery of a local fruit shop owner, Ahmed El Ahmad, who ran towards the violence and snatched an enormous, long gun from the hands of one of the shooters. Ahmad was shot by the other terrorist and is recovering in hospital."
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #AlAhmed
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Al-Ahmed’s family says he acted purely out of conscience and humanitarian instinct, drawing praise from Australian leaders and becoming a symbol of courage, unity, and selflessness amid national grief and fear of backlash toward Muslim communities."
~ Aaron Parnas
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #AlAhmed
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NEWS: Donald Trump Revels in the Horrific Murder of Rob and Michele Reiner.
Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •“'When he saw people dying and their families being shot, he couldn’t bear to see people dying,' [Al-Ahmed's cousin Jozay] said.
'It was a humanitarian act, more than anything else. It was a matter of conscience … He’s very proud that he saved even one life.'"
~ Caitlin Cassidy
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #AlAhmed
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‘It was a matter of conscience’: Ahmed al-Ahmed’s family reveal why he risked his life to disarm alleged Bondi shooter
Caitlin Cassidy (The Guardian)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •“'When he saw this scene, people dying of gunfire, he told me, ‘"I couldn’t bear this. God gave me strength. I believe I’m going to stop this person killing people".'”
#antisemitism #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #AlAhmed
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The truth remains that anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have spiked in recent years and have been used by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, including the Trump Administration, to promote conspiracies of ;white genocide' and 'the replacement theory,' which have radicalized individuals to commit violence."
~ Wajahat Ali
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #AlAhmed #GreatReplacement
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Heroes and Hatemongers: The Bondi Beach Terror Attack Invites Solidarity and a Rejection of Bigotry
THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Now, mainstream MAGA promotes 'remigration,' which is a white supremacist term for 'ethnic cleansing' of all people of color from 'the West.'
We’re all in this together, people.
The bigots hate all of us."
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #GreatReplacement #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"They pit us against each other, but at the end of the day, if you’re a person of color, Jewish, Muslim, a woman, LGBTQ, Latino, or Black, then you are seen as the 'other' and the invader.
Instead of 'thoughts and prayers,' we must see each other’s humanity, stand in solidarity….
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #GreatReplacement #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"It is terrible to imagine that there might be some who actually now need to go back to the Talmudic discussion, about whether it’s safe, in fact, to light a Chanukiah, given now that we’ve seen this terrible, terrible massacre in Sydney. It just shows that we still live in a world that is dangerous for Jews," (continued in /12)
~ Peter Beinart
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah
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Thoughts about the Chanukah Massacre in Australia
Ken Silverman (The Beinart Notebook)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •(continued from /11)
"and that some of the ancient, ancient discussions about how to keep Jews safe are still relevant today, and that some of the terrible, terrible horrors that many Australian Jews faced, the antisemitism in their families in Europe, that in a different way, that antisemitism has returned in Australia, and on Chanukah of all holidays."
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"They don’t dog whistle much anymore. They openly proclaim Nazism and fascism. In their directives to ICE, in their recent National Security Strategy, in their daily recitation of cruelty and humiliation against the least of these our brothers and sisters, they openly embrace racism, eugenics, misogyny, transphobia, and cruelty."
~ Dennis Lytton
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #GreatReplacement #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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A New Season of Hope
Dennis Lytton (Liberal Currents)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Most mass shooters are straight, white, Christian, cisgender men. Most lean right or are far-right in their politics. But there are never calls for collective punishment of this group. To even suggest it is preposterous and only happens in ironic responses, not policy."
~ Jay Kuo
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #GreatReplacement #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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In The Wake Of Violence
Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"'Categories are leaky' is one of my constant refrains. Anyone who wants to blame all Muslims or Islam for the action of the two murderers in Sydney has to reckon with the Syrian-Australian guy who saved so many lives while risking his own to wrest a gun away from one of the murderers."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #GreatReplacement #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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Rebecca Solnit
www.facebook.comWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The same is true of all groups, and it's part of what makes these targeted mass murders so obscene: the idea that all members of a group bear responsibility or guilt or share the views of other members."
#antisemitism #Islamophobia #BondiBeach #MassShooting #Hanukkah #GreatReplacement #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
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RainbowFrog
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Onceone falls in this trap, it's very difficult to get out of it...
In France it's become more and more difficult to have a reasonable thinking about killings, and far right is openly growing and growing for 10 years, since the 2015 killings, because of that 😭
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
in reply to William Lindsey • • •There's an old line that I seem to be using more and more these days:
'All generalisations are wrong, including this one'
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼
in reply to William Lindsey • • •