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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

12/24 Links Pt1: In 2025, anti-Semitism went apocalyptic; Anthony Albanese blasted for lacking ‘transparency, courage and honesty’ ; Bondi victims to be remembered on New Year’s Eve

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Brendan O'Neill: In 2025, anti-Semitism went apocalyptic
Incredibly, it could have been even worse. This week, to round off an awful year for anti-Semitism, two radical Islamists in the UK were found guilty of planning the mass murder of Jews in Manchester. They arranged for guns to be smuggled into Britain so that they might cause ‘untold harm’ to the Jewish community. They were driven by a ‘visceral dislike’ of Jews and ‘very firm opinions’ on Gaza – anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism logically crashing together in an orgy of violent Jewphobia. Surely no one can continue to deny that Islamist anti-Semitism poses a grave threat to the modern West. We await the left’s clear condemnation of this medieval plot to massacre Jews. Meanwhile, in November it was announced that Mossad had foiled Hamas plots to massacre Jews across Europe. And still the half-wits of the faux-virtuous activist class see Mossad as the source of every earthly evil and Hamas as ‘resistance’. Shorter version: Killing Jews – fine. Saving them – how dare you.

How has this happened? How were gunmen and knifemen and mobs in the West allowed to heed that deathly instruction issued by Hamas on 7 October – namely, kill Jews? A key ingredient was the wilful blindness of the West. Jews and their friends warned over and over that things were spinning out of control. Alex Kleytman himself raised the alarm, in 2020, about ‘desecrated cemeteries [and] painted swastikas on the walls of synagogues’. Such barbarous racism reminded him of the dark past he survived. And yet Jews like him were ignored. They were accused of hyperbole, of ‘weaponising’ their feelings for cynical ends. Now he is dead while the vile minimisers of anit-Semtiism thrive.

Jews are once again bearing the brunt of the West’s abandonment of its civilisational values. Just as they were the prime victims of the Nazis’ ruthless destruction of European civilisation, so they are now the collateral damage of the modern West’s craven cowardice in the face of the Islamo-left threat. The elites’ fashionable loathing for the Jewish State has crashed together with the Islamist hatred for the Jewish people, giving rise to a moment of true danger for the Jewish people.

2025 has made it clear – we have failed our Jewish brothers and sisters. Europe’s porous borders allowed anti-Semites from regressive cultures to arrive on our shores. The cultural establishment’s frothing obsession with the ‘evil’ Jewish State reanimated the latent anti-Semitism of the bourgeoisie. The media’s ceaseless defamation of Israel, the damning of it as a genocidal entity that relishes in the murder of children, resuscitated blood libels of old. And the left’s flagrant ignoring of Jewish pleas for protection sealed the deal. ‘Don’t listen to them’, they essentially said. ‘They’re exaggerating.’ Even after Bondi, even following a massacre of Jews the Nazis would have gushed over, they’re saying this.

The West’s infrastructure of censorship played a central role in this callous damning of the Jews to their presumed fate. The elites’ ruthless shutdown of discussion about the borders problem, the rise of Islamism and the true nature of Israelophobia allowed regressive thinking and bigoted animus to fester and spread. It is always in the dark corners created by the cowardly creed of censorship that foul ideologies take root.

That ends right now. From Cable Street to the liberation of Auschwitz, goodness has frequently reasserted itself against the pox of Jew hatred and the contempt for human civilisation it always embodies. In 2026, we can do that again. Our best weapons? Liberty, truth and courage. And maybe some street-fighting where necessary.
Bondi victims to be remembered on New Year’s Eve
Sydney will pause to remember the victims of the Bondi terror attack on New Year's Eve with a one-minute silence, while the Harbour Bridge pylons will be illuminated in white light.

The world-famous fireworks on Sydney Harbour will feel different to previous years following Australia’s deadliest terror attack on Bondi Beach.

On December 14, a mass shooting resulted in the murder of 15 innocent people.

The Harbour Bridge pylons will be illuminated just before the 9pm fireworks, then an image of a dove and the word ‘peace’ will be lit up.

At 11pm, the landmark will be cast in white light before a one-minute silence.

Sydneysiders will be encouraged to switch on their phone torches and shine a light in solidarity.

Sydney Mayor Clover Moore said this year’s NYE display will display Sydney’s strength to come together as one.

“While we are still reeling from the recent tragic events in Bondi, New Year’s Eve provides an opportunity to gather as a community, to pause and reflect, and to look with hope for a safer and more peaceful 2026,” Ms Moore said.

“Sydney New Year’s Eve is more than fireworks. It’s a reflection of who we are – a vibrant, diverse and inclusive city. Those values are more important than ever.

“These moments will provide an opportunity for people to show respect, to reflect on the atrocity and to say we will not let this hateful act of terror divide us.”
‘She ran back into danger’: Chief Rabbi hails teenage girl courage during Bondi attack
The Chief Rabbi has hailed the bravery of a 14-year-old girl who was shot while shielding two children during the Bondi Beach attacks.

Speaking to Jewish News after returning to the UK from a solidarity visit to Sydney, Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the teenager’s actions came to symbolise the wider response of Australia’s Jewish community – one marked not by anger or retreat, but by faith, dignity and moral resolve.

“She had reached a position of safety,” he said. “But when she saw others injured and vulnerable, she ran back towards danger. People shouted for her to come back, but she felt compelled to help.”

Sir Ephraim visited the girl, Chaya Dadon, in hospital shortly before leaving Australia. He said she saw a mother who had been injured and two children lying exposed on the ground and threw herself over them to protect them. She was shot while shielding the children and later underwent surgery.

“Thank God she will survive,” he said. “She spoke with faith and belief, and with a deep determination to redouble her efforts to serve God and to make this a better world.”

For the Chief Rabbi, the teenager now embodies the message he is carrying back from Bondi Beach.

“If there is one person who captures what I saw in Australia, it is her,” he said.

Sir Ephraim also paid tribute to Ahmed al-Ahmed, who intervened during the attack and was seriously injured. Although the Chief Rabbi was unable to meet him due to further surgery, he said he had hoped to thank him in person.

“On behalf of the entire Jewish world, we cannot thank him enough,” he said. “He is a role model for all our societies.”


Bureaucratic blunder, not security concern, delayed Bondi terrorist’s gun license
A man accused of shooting dead 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an antisemitic terror attack faced a lengthy delay in getting a gun license because of a bureaucratic mishap, not because he raised suspicions, an Australian state government leader said on Tuesday.

Sajid Akram, who was killed by police during the attack, and his 24-year-old son, Naveed Akram, are accused of targeting some 1,000 Jews celebrating Hanukkah on December 14, in Australia’s worst mass shooting since 1996.

Questions have been raised about how the 50-year-old father came to legally own six rifles and shotguns. Alleged shooter waited 3 years for gun license

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns on Tuesday confirmed that the father applied for a state license to own firearms in 2000, three years before it was granted. The process typically takes six to 10 weeks.

“The latest information that we have is that there was a real mess in relation to the bureaucracy when it comes to gun licenses and the delays related to that — not a specific threat” posed by the father, Minns told reporters.

Reporters asked Minns on Monday why the father was allowed to own guns when he shared his Sydney home with Naveed Akram, who had been investigated in 2019 by the spy agency Australian Security Intelligence Organization over his extremist links.

“I don’t know. I’d give anything to go back a week, month, two years, to ensure that didn’t happen. But we need to make sure that we take steps so that it never happens again,” Minns said.

A wide-ranging and powerful form of public investigation known as a royal commission will examine the circumstances surrounding the massacre and the surge of antisemitism in Australia since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel sparked the war in Gaza.
Read Islamic school principal's disturbing comments about 'destroying' Israel - as the Australian government threatens to shut his school down in the wake of Bondi
An Islamic school has been given just 28 days to prove its principal is a 'fit and proper' person, or risk being shut down by authorities.

The deadline was issued almost a year after state and federal authorities began investigating controversial social media posts linked to Sheikh Abdulghani Albaf, head of New Madinah College in Young, regional NSW.

One Facebook post attributed to Albaf read: 'Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism.' (Zionism refers to supporting a Jewish state, while antisemitism is discrimination against Jews.)

Albaf also declared that Israel was 'worse than Nazis' in a post on 15 December 2023.

'Absolutely worse than NAZIS. THE ZIONIST TERRORIST REGIME is more devilish, evil and atrocious than any other terrorist in history, actually I'd say a close call between them and the CRUSADERS… White supremacy at its best.. PURE EVIL…' it continued.

Just two weeks earlier, Albaf shared an image featuring the slogan 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' on November 5.

'So apparently, this statement really upsets Zionists… Wish someone told me earlier.. May Allah destroy the Israeli Zionist regime sooner rather than later… ALLAHUMA AMEEN,' he said.

A post on November 1 included a graphic of a Palestinian child growing up to become a fighter with a Hamas-style headband after being attacked by Israel with the caption: 'I don't know how some people find this so hard to grasp'.

'May Allah grant our brothers & sisters in Palestine victory over the Zionist terrorists. May Allah continue to place fear in the hearts of the enemies through the Soldiers of Allah,' Albaf continued.

Albaf called for Israel to no longer exist in a post on November 17, and called Israel 'The Zionist Terrorist State of IsNotReal' on December 11.

'Zionists have been systematically wiping out Palestine for past 100 years whilst crying out like they are the oppressed!!! Well, I'd like to state for the record… From the RIVER to the SEA… ISREAL Should NOT BE!! FREE PALESTINE,' he wrote.

According to its website, New Madinah College teaches the Quran, Arabic and Islamic values alongside core subjects, offering classes from kindergarten to Year 10.

The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) began monitoring the school shortly after the probe began and conducted an inspection mid-year.

In a statement to the ABC on Wednesday - following the recent tragedy at Bondi Beach - a NESA spokesperson said: 'We have issued a show cause notice to the Chair of New Madinah College's Board about the conduct of the school's principal. Our priority remains the safety and wellbeing of students.'

The school now has less than a month to prove Albaf meets the 'fit and proper' requirement or face deregistration.

Unregistered schools are not legally permitted to operate, according to the NSW government's education website.
Julian Leeser thrashes PM for ‘failure’ to call for Royal Commission into Bondi attack
Shadow Education Minister Julian Leeser has outlined his disappointment with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s refusal to call for a Royal Commission into the Bondi attacks.

“He has always been late to the party,” Mr Leeser said.

“With failure to call a Royal Commission, he is desecrating the memory of those people who died [on] Sunday.”




‘Questions to answer’: Albanese blasted for lacking ‘transparency, courage and honesty’
GT Communications' Gemma Tognini claims none of the excuses of the Albanese government have on saying no to a royal commission are “reasonable”.

“This government has questions to answer,” Ms Tognini told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.

“The fact that it is so heavily resistant to answering them is a massive, massive problem.”


Labor labelled ‘willfully blind’ to antisemitism: Security insider breaks silence
Sky News host Danica De Giorgio analyses how a high-ranking security insider breaking silence claiming the Albanese government was willfully blind to the rise of antisemitism.




The Sydney Morning Herald deletes op-ed by controversial councillor Ahmed Ouf
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have pulled an opinion piece published by controversial Cumberland City Council Councillor Ahmed Ouf.

The article was published on Tuesday at 7.30pm about Mr Ouf going to Bondi Beach to “hug” Jewish Australians.

Mr Ouf said that “showing up was not easy” and that people showed “confusion and hesitation” at his presence.

He has previously attempted to implement the anti-Israel “Boycott, Divest and Sanction” movement in his Western


Martin Glynn: Bomb-making list, guns, terrorist flags found in home of WA man accused of praising Bondi attack
Chillingly similar items to those used in the Bondi-style terror attack, including guns, extremist flags and a bomb-making shopping list, have been allegedly found in the home of a Perth man accused of spreading anti-Semitic hate online.

A court was told on today officers from the State Security Investigation Group, raided the Yangebup home of Martin Thomas Glynn — who allegedly posted messages online in support of the Bondi terror attacks — on Tuesday, as part of Operation Dalewood, which was launched after the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil and claimed the lives of 15 innocent victims.

Police who searched the 39-year-old’s property in Perth’s south, allegedly found three terrorist flags — including the Hezbollah and Hamas flag — six registered rifles, a flick knife, 4000 rounds of ammunition and a handwritten notebook containing anti-Semitic references and others to Hitler.

The notebook was labelled “ideology, views, insights and political ideas” and allegedly also made references to the Holocaust, including quotes that “Jews have always been scum ... we don’t want them near us or our family”, the court heard.

Officers also allegedly found photographs on Mr Glynn’s phone indicating that he had tried to make a smoke grenade bomb and had access to information about making explosives, leading to a second search warrant.

During that search, police allegedly found pro-Hezbollah stickers, improvised initiators, shaved aluminium and a bomb manufacturing shopping list.

Police also said Mr Glynn allegedly flew the Palestinian flag outside his home, “creating angst amongst his neighbours”.

The former mine worker appeared in Fremantle Magistrates court on charged with conduct intended to racially harass, carrying or possessing a prohibited weapon and failing to store a firearm or related thing in compliant storage.

Mr Glynn allegedly took to Instagram endorsing the Bondi massacre just hours after the shooting on December 14, prosecutors told the court.

“I just want to say, I, Marty Thomas Glynn, 100 per cent support the two New South Wales shooters RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE AGAINST JEWS AND ALL FUTURE JEWS,” he allegedly wrote in a social media post. “If you think this is an outrage, show me a single day where Jews killed less than 10 Palestinians. I stand by this and everything I saw... what did they expect if they killed 500,000 Palestinians?”

Hours later, Mr Glynn posted a new message: “Delete me, unfriend me, don’t call me, I don’t care... if you actively support genocide in your religion, what the f... did (you) think would happen?”

“Go ahead and hate me, I dare you to give me a single shred of evidence to call me a liar.”


Unmasked: The British NEO-NAZI dad being kicked out of Australia after living here for almost two decades - as cops find his vile stash of swastika weapons
A British neo-Nazi facing deportation after allegedly posting hateful content online is a father-of-one who has called Australia home for 15 years, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Kayn Adam Charles Wells, 43, is currently in a Brisbane immigration detention centre awaiting his fate after his Australian visa was cancelled on Monday as authorities clamp down on hate speech.

Wells was arrested on December 3 at his Caboolture home, north of Brisbane, after allegedly posting antisemitic content on X using two different accounts between October 10 and November 5 this year.

His house was subsequently searched and allegedly found to contain several weapons including swords bearing swastikas, axes and knives.

Wells was charged with four offences: using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence and three counts of public display of prohibited Nazi symbols.

He was released on bail and was due to next face court on January 7 next year, but Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed he has instead been taken to an immigration detention centre.

Wells will be offered the chance to leave the country voluntarily or otherwise face deportation to the UK.

'He came here to hate - he doesn't get to stay,' Burke said on Wednesday.

'If you come to Australia on a visa, you are here as a guest.

'Almost everyone on a visa is a good guest and a welcome guest in Australia, but if someone comes here for the purposes of hate, they can leave.'

The Daily Mail can reveal Wells - who was known as 'Adam' until he legally added 'Kayn' to his name in late 2020 - has been in Australia for more than a decade after becoming a permanent resident in 2013.


Hugh Hewitt: On Xmas Eve, Hugh explains why antisemitism has no place in the Church, GOP or any civilized country

Christmas gloom: 24 hours of bad news for Jews and Britain. Let's hope 2026 is kind — peace to all
Jonathan Sacerdoti discusses the string of bad news stories relating to extremism, antisemitism and terrorism in the UK.




Erin Molan: A Doctor, a Former Prime Minister — And the War Being Waged on the Next Generation
In this episode 70 of The Erin Molan Show, Erin begins with an important conversation with physician and legal advocate Dr. Andrew Zywiec, who argues that the fight to protect children has already crossed legal and moral lines — and that existing laws are being ignored rather than enforced.

The discussion then widens to the global stage, as former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson joins Erin to speak candidly about leadership, war, appeasement, and what happens when the West loses moral clarity in moments that shape history.

Two conversations. One through-line.
From what is happening close to home — to what it means for the world.

Chapters
00:00 – When the Line Is Crossed
01:30 – Dr. Andrew Zywiec: The Legal Reality
24:11 – Boris Johnson on War and Western Leadership
49:45 - Erin Molan Christmas Eve message


Erin Molan UNLEASHED in Parliament — A Speech Australian Leaders Needed To Hear
In a powerful and emotional address inside NSW Parliament, Erin Molan delivered a speech that made national headlines. Speaking at a memorial following the Bondi attack, Erin refused to offer platitudes — instead confronting silence, fear, and leadership failures head-on.

This was not a prepared script. It was raw, personal, and uncompromising. From the fear gripping communities to the moral clarity between good and evil, Erin spoke from the heart — and said what many Australians have been feeling but few have been willing to say publicly.

Her words inside NSW Parliament House sparked debate across the country and dominated front-page coverage. Whether you agree or disagree, this is a moment that will be remembered.

00:00 – Why this gathering matters
02:05 – “If you were surprised, you haven’t been paying attention”
02:31 – Shame, silence, and leadership
04:48 – “That is not free speech”
06:10 – Weak leadership has consequences
07:55 – Unity without action means nothing
08:25 – Naming the enemy
10:55 – Hope, strength, and the Jewish community
12:02 – A personal story about her father
14:10 – A warning to the future






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