Years of Ignored Antisemitism Led to Terror in Australia — and the Media Helped Normalize It
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Category: PERSECUTION OF GOD’S PEOPLE
Summary:
A mass shooting targeting a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, Sydney, resulted in multiple Jewish victims, including 10-year-old Matilda. Prior to the attack, the Jewish community in Australia reported numerous antisemitic incidents, such as hateful chants, graffiti, and a synagogue firebombing, which were largely dismissed or downplayed. Initial media coverage hesitated to explicitly identify the attack as antisemitic, often focusing on the perpetrators' backgrounds or generalizing the event as public violence. Some outlets humanized the attackers and shifted attention away from the victims, while others highlighted concerns of safety for the Muslim community, reflecting a broader reluctance to directly address the antisemitism that precipitated the attack.
Mysterion Insights
Scripture: Psalm 35:19-20
"Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me; Neither let those who hate me without cause wink maliciously. For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land."
Commentary:
These verses name a reality that is difficult to witness: hatred and deceit aimed at people who have not provoked it. The Jewish community in Australia is feeling the daily impact, with fear surfacing even at family events. When violence is minimized or mischaracterized, it leaves victims invisible. Scripture shows that such targeted hostility is not a surprise but collapses into a larger prophetic pattern of rising antisemitism, especially as nations respond with confusion and deflection. Brutal suffering in the diaspora continues to echo ancient enmity.
Prophetic Trend:
Antisemitic violence and societal reluctance to confront it openly are increasing, fitting a prophetic pattern of hostility toward Jewish communities worldwide.
Mysterion Prophetic Impact Rating: B - Moderate What does this mean?
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Source Excerpt:
Mourners carry the casket of 10-year-old Matilda the youngest victim of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday, at Chevra Kadisha Memorial Hall, in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hollie Adams Years of hatred and antisemitism that was swept aside or outright denied led to one of the most horrific attacks on the Jewish people in Australia. The warning signs were unmistakable more than two years ago: chants of “gas the Jews” outside the Sydney Opera House days after October 7; “Jew die” graffiti scrawled outside a Jewish school; a synagogue firebombed; and a Jewish community that made clear, again and again, that it did not feel safe or protected. A terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community should not be what it takes for the world to pay attention to the undeniable rise in antisemitism. And yet, even now, it appears that many are still unwilling to acknowledge the attack was antisemitic. Despite the terrorists specifically aiming at the crowd gathered at the Hanukkah event, there was initial reluctance to name the Jewish community as the target. Rather, the attack was framed in vague terms a...
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Source: Algemeiner
Posted on 12-25-2025 12:20