"Progressive" Australian media justifies Bondi massacre as reasonable "blowback" to Gaza and "Jewish supremacism" ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, December 22, 2025

"Progressive" Australian media justifies Bondi massacre as reasonable "blowback" to Gaza and "Jewish supremacism"

Two recent articles in Independent Australia shows how antisemitism is now respected, mainstream opinion among the progressive community.

One is an article by Michael Cohen, representing the "as-a-Jew" contingent. Clearly written by AI, the article ends up claiming that Bondi happened because, he says, Chabad is a child-abusing Jewish supremacist cult:

Extremist movements recognise absolutism wherever it appears. They feed on certainty, purity and submission. Groups such as Islamic State operate on that logic.

When Jewish life is publicly flattened into a similar absolutist form, it becomes legible — and therefore targetable. That shift carries real risks.

For Sydney Jewry to survive, it needs to rethink its relationship with the supremacist cult — Chabad. In fact, all of Jewry should take this as a warning.

Funny, because Chabad is more welcoming, more diverse, more tolerant of different opinions and less likely to "cancel" people who disagree than any "progressive" voice I've ever seen.

This article effectively blames Chabad for Bondi, not Islamic terrorists. How dare they do publicly Jewish things which makes them "targetable"?

This is really all you need to know about how thoroughly deranged progressive thought is nowadays.

If that was only one insane op-ed, that could be dismissed as a fringe opinion. Bu a much more prominent voice is also interviewed in the same site, and he dismisses the Bondi massacre as justified anger at Jews.

Chris Hedges, a former New York Times reporter and inveterate Israel hater, is interviewed by IA, and here is how he responds to the first muddled question about Bondi - a question that already assumes that it obviously is connected to Gaza:

MP: I thought we might go firstly to the horrific Bondi massacre, where 16 people are now dead and 40 injured. And I believe that you know, in terms of the war in Gaza at the moment, of course, this is a very significant issue. A lot of people are, I guess, chiming in and speaking up about this and its significance on anti-semitism and all of those things. What are your thoughts on that?
CH: Well, it's blowback. I mean, so you've had over two years of genocide.

That's the entire analysis of the attack. Murdering 15 Jews at a Chanukah lighting party is reasonable "blowback" to what is being misreported in Gaza. This Pulitzer-prize winning reporter has just justified 2,000 years of Jew hatred as a normal response to how Jews act. Hedges, who is also a Presbyterian minister, has opinions that are functionally identical to medieval Christian antisemitism.

And the so-called progressive community not only tolerates such blatant Jew hatred, but celebrates it as intellectual and brave.

If there are progressive voices who are horrified at the idea that Jews are getting what they deserve, we sure aren't hearing from any of them. The YouTube comments are uniformly supportive of this sickening antisemitism. This is entirely because there is more fear of being branded a heretic by the progressive cult than there is from any organized religion.

(h/t Jill)