It was Hanukkah. The Qur’an tells Muslims that the Jews are the most “vehement in hostility” to them (5:82). The shooters were inspired by the Islamic State. All this makes it abundantly clear that the attacks were meant to target Jews, but Richard Flanagan, like all too many leftists, is so blinded by his hatred and so arrogantly certain of his own perspective, that he feels free to ignore and deny reality.
“Award-Winning Australian Writer Claims Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack Was Not Antisemitic,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, August 28, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Award-winning Australian novelist Richard Flanagan claimed at a festival in Sydney recently that the deadly ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach last year was not antisemitic and that the “Israel lobby” could be fueling antisemitism in the country.
“Other than the murderous evil of the two gunmen, where was the antisemitism to be found at Bondi on that terrible day? Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere,” Flanagan said while presenting a new essay inspired by his book Heresies at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. He then condemned “the immediate politicization of the massacre by the Israel lobby.” Saying the terrorist attack was a result of Australian antisemitism is a “destructive myth built around the Bondi massacre,” he alleged.
Flanagan, who is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford coveted literary awards, read from a new essay that focused primarily on Israel, Zionism, and antisemitism. He claimed the Bondi terrorist attack against Jewish Australians showcased multiculturalism in the country because Australians from “every creed, color, and background” rushed to the scene to help, and that “far from being a culmination of a wave of national antisemitism, [the attack] was a refutation of antisemitism.”
“Freedom of speech and expression are now endangered in Australia by the politicization and weaponization of the Bondi massacre,” the author said. He also made allegations about the “renewed attempt by the Israel lobby to use that tragedy to silence discussion around Israel and Gaza, accusing Israel of “seeking to silence” Australians with the “slur” of antisemitism.
“This massacre [at Bondi Beach], it was argued, was a consequence of a government that had done nothing and ignored all warnings about antisemitism … To what extend has the Israel lobby itself contributed to antisemitism in Australia by consistently advocating for Israel’s war in Gaza in a highly aggressive fashion, always seeking to identify all Australian Jewish people with Israel’s actions and with the lobby’s own heavy-handed attempts to silence Australians,” he stated. “Could it be the lobby’s own acts fueling antisemitism?”
”But if you wish to create a machine to destroy social cohesion in this country, a machine to create hatred of Jews such as this country has never known, then endorse the ambitions of the special envoy for antisemitism,” Flanagan added. “Because although this will be the work of the Israel lobby on behalf of Israel, it will be Australian Jews who will be blamed and scapegoated for it.”…
The two threats says
The so-called Festival of Dangerous Ideas contains no “dangerous ideas” per se, unless you are a White, Christian or Jewish, hetronormative Capitalist.
Then, the “ideas” are dangerous towards you.
The Left Wing – Muslim Alliance is a dangerous convergence of ideologies that threaten the West and humankind.
PRCS USN (ret) says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
That Leftist novelist who claimed that the ISIS massacre at Bondi beach wasn’t anti-Semitic must have really been wearing is politically correct left –wing Ref /Green blinder , he refuses to take them off.
For hat horrific jihad massacre of December 14th 2025 of which so many Jewish people at that Hanukkah festival, in Sydney, Australia , is the result two terrible things. Which is first , Qur’ an command to kill “disbeliever: Surah 47:4.
The second things it that the all vicious Muslims hate towards the Jewish people is because according to Qur ‘an n ,which is the entire foundation of Islam, the Jews are “apes and swine in human form.” Such vicious and malice -filled vicious murderous spite and hate of jihadist Muslims ,as those of Hamas ,Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad for the Jewish people is based upon the foundation of Islam’s “holy book” the Qu ‘ran.
The roots of this awful Muslim murderous hostility towards the Jewish people is the result of a firm but blind and unquestioning Muslim faith in the Qu ‘ran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
In other words the Qu ‘ran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people.
The reason that the Qur ‘an reads as it does have much to do with the history of the founder and prophet of Islam, who is Muhammad. This is for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first.
Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Qu ‘ran.
Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them “apes and swine.” in human form. As seen in the Qur ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhammad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets have gone out into the world.” First John 4:1.
Giancarlo MATTA says
ooh MY GAWD ….. !!! mr W.S. ,
what the f**k are you waiting to write a book ?
Walter Sieruk says
That absurd outrageously false statement by that writer is an example of an intellectually dishonest man who refuses to accept reality .
That evil book, the Qur ‘an is able make a wicked influence in those who are indoctrinated in its teaching and then creates evil men. As observed in the horrendous atrocities committed by the jihadists mass murder of all those Jews at a Hanukkah festival in Sydney’ Australia
For that religious book of Islam, the Qur ‘an , which is the foundation of both Islam and its Hamas instructs in the violence and killing of what it terms “disbelievers” As found in ,for example, Surah 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 and also teaches that Jews are “Apes and swine” that in human form. As seen in the Qur ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
Furthermore, the Qur ‘an teaches that Jews are really of “apes and swine. “In human form As seen in the Qur ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
The Qu ‘ran needs to and should be exposed for that death inflecting instruction book that it actually is.
Furthermore ,that has already been done, for in the book THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey on pages 145 through 157 in which he wrote a section on the Qu‘ran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qu’ran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qu ‘ran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.”
Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Qur ‘an, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran.
In addition, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Therefore, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Qu ‘ran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Even though the above essay was posted before, it should now be added that the last statement of the above that “the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.” To put this in a Biblical way. As in from the Bible, it may be truly explained that the Qu ‘ran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 14:12.. [N.I.V.]
Giancarlo MATTA says
ooh MY GAWD ….. !!!
what the f**k are you waiting to write a book ?
Voltaic says
This is what Flanagan is reported to have said:
“Other than the murderous evil of the two gunmen, where was the antisemitism to be found at Bondi on that terrible day? Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere,”
This is who Flanagan is reported to be:
“Flanagan, who is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford coveted literary awards…”
You don’t read Thomas Pynchon (past the first page of self-indulgent onanistic nonsense) and you have heard that people who read Thomas Pynchon also highly rate Flanagan so that tells you not to bother reading Flanagan who is one of quite a number of Modern Unreadables coming out of Australia a category only made viable and brought to public notice by Government-funded support for the “Arts”.
And so who cares how many Baillie Gifford’s he has won -what we really and sincerely want to know is:
Does this man need help?
My first reaction was that this reminded of the outrageous thesis by the post-modern French “Structuralist”, Baudrillard, that the war in Iraq the 90s didn’t exist. Why? Well, it was all on CNN etcetra so was just a social construct so the parts of the construction could just be moved around and indeed even interpreted to be a mirage.
But what about all those people who were killed? Well, yes they were killed but you see while that was tragic for the individuals they were also tokens in Baudrillard’s theory: lots of dead men don’t necessarily make war, n’est pas?
Was there a war in Iraq?
Of course there was.
So, is this just a Baudrillardian attention-seeking scandal by Flanagan who would be in “Who’s Who” but who would be greeted by most people as “Who?, Who did you say you were?”.
I’m not sure.
It will be sport to read and see all the reaction from people when they recovery from wandering the streets distractedly and open-mouthed mumbling “What did he say?”.
But, only balance, yep, I think he needs something…even if it’s just swirling some Drambuie around in a small glass.
ElderlyZionist says
Fiction is Flanagan’s trade. He’s won awards.