Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel joined the chorus of Israeli officials blaming Australia’s current government for the Hanukkah party massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Haskel noted that just two days after the savage Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of Israel, even before Israel had launched its retaliatory military operations, people marched outside the Sydney Opera House calling to “Gas the Jews” and “globalize the intifada” – and the Australian government did nothing.
Another video from October 9, 2023—two days after the October 7 massacre—shows Australian Muslims chanting ‘Where are the Jews’ and ‘F*k the Jews,’ until a non-Muslim activist warns them to stop saying ‘Jews’ because media cameras are present.@DocumentIsrael pic.twitter.com/dYnTGg13ve
— GAZAWOOD – the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) December 14, 2025
“No one was arrested, no one was prosecuted, no one paid a price for that,” she stressed. “You are basically giving an excuse or backing to some of the most violent lies that are being spread … [which] inflates the hatred and violence that is being committed against Jews.”
Rowan Dean @rowandean of Sky News Australia recaps the night of October 9th 2023, on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
What should have been a night of mourning for Israelis, was instead gate-crashed by a baying pro-Palestine mob.
And so began 19 months of protests, chants,… pic.twitter.com/WYgdv1L9eE
— Mark Rowley (@MarkWRowley) June 1, 2025
Haskel lived for six years in Australia, and said that during her time there it was one of the safest places in the world for Jews. But sadly, that is no longer true.
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