Appeasing anti-Israel mobs empowered genocidal hatred, culminating in Jewish slaughter while leaders excused Palestinian extremism.
Two years ago, in October 2023, crowds gathered outside Sydney’s Opera House to celebrate the massacre of Jews in southern Israel. Videos circulated globally showing chants widely understood as “gas the Jews,” an echo of Europe’s darkest hour. Yet authorities insisted the world had misheard, choosing semantic denial over moral clarity.
The consequences of that denial arrived brutally on December 14, 2025. Less than ten kilometers away, Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach were hunted by terrorists. At least sixteen innocent Jews were murdered—not randomly, but deliberately—because they were Jews.
For two years, Western leaders, universities, and media outlets normalized what should have been universally condemned. Calls to “Globalize the Intifada” were reframed as activism. Campus mobs chanting for “10,000 October 7s” were indulged as political expression. Protesters outside synagogues openly declared their desire to make Jews afraid—and were rarely stopped.
The lie that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” collapsed under the weight of reality. Jews in the diaspora were harassed, threatened, and attacked by movements claiming opposition to Israel while targeting Jewish lives everywhere. The ideological pipeline from chanting mobs to armed terrorists was visible, predictable, and ignored.
Antisemitism was endlessly diluted, forced to share the stage with unrelated narratives, even as hate crimes against Jews surged. Authorities chose appeasement over enforcement, votes over values, and moral cowardice over responsibility. The result was inevitable.
The Sydney Hanukkah Massacre is not an anomaly—it is the outcome of sustained indulgence of genocidal hatred, much of it fueled by anti-Israel obsession and enabled by Arab and Islamist propaganda networks embraced in Western capitals. This is the final warning: when societies excuse hatred of Jews, they invite violence against Jews. Silence did not protect anyone. It only armed the killers.
