Globalized

"Globalize the intifada" has for some time been a popular slogan among Jew-haters of various stripes.  The mayor-elect of the city with the largest Jewish population on Earth outside Israel has refused to condemn it.  On Sunday we saw what that slogan looks like when converted into concrete action.

At Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia, two jihadist gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing fifteen people and injuring forty.  The event had nothing to do with Israel, Zionism, or anything political (one of those killed was an Israeli citizen, but the murderers had no way of knowing that).  The victims were targeted because they were Jewish, period.

The dead included a ten-year-old girl, a rabbi, and an elderly Holocaust survivor, Alex Kleytman, who was killed protecting his wife.  A heroic husband and wife, Boris and Sofia Gurman, attacked one of the murderers and tried to disarm him, but were both killed.  Another brave man at the scene, Ahmed al-Ahmed, overpowered one of the murderers and succeeded in disarming him, likely saving lives.  Al-Ahmed survived, but was shot several times, has needed major surgery, and still needs more.  It is worth noting that he is a Muslim and an immigrant from Syria.  If Australia had had the kind of blanket immigration ban that Trump favors, he would not have been present in Sydney to take the action he did.  And a fourteen-year-old girl, Chaya Mushka Dadon, lay on top of two other children to shield them from the jihadists' bullets.  She was shot, but survived.

An armed intervener would likely have been able to shoot the two jihadists relatively quickly and from a safe distance, saving many of those who were killed and injured (the police, who are allowed guns, eventually did shoot them).  But Australia's restrictive gun laws ensured that the Gurmans and al-Ahmed were weaponless.  Australia's prime minister has called for even tougher gun laws, to make it even less likely that the next jihadists to attempt such an atrocity will face anyone capable of stopping them quickly.

This attack follows a rising tide of anti-Jewish hatred in Australia (especially since the October 7 attack on Israel), to which the government's response has been muddled and inadequate.  The "globalize the intifada" slogan has been chanted there, at Nazi-esque "pro-Palestinian" rallies, just like here in the US.  Last Sunday, we got a glimpse of what the filth who try to justify or excuse such rhetoric support unleashing on the world.