Israel Apologists Hasten To Use Bondi Shooting To Attack Anti-Genocide Activists

http://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/12/15/israel-apologists-hasten-to-use-bondi-shooting-to-attack-anti-genocide-activists/
Date Written:  2025-12-15
Year Published:  2025
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX25383

Massacring civilians is wrong. It's wrong in Bondi Beach, and it's wrong in Gaza. Today the worst people in the world are trying to claim that because the former happened, everyone needs to stop protesting the latter. This is pure, cynical manipulation designed to protect a genocidal apartheid state from criticism. It deserves nothing but a scoff and a dismissal.

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From the earliest moments after this attack Israel apologists have taken it as a given that it was an act of terrorism in response to Israel's genocidal atrocities in Gaza, but then framing the people peacefully protesting those atrocities as the problem.

They're openly acknowledging that the genocide is violently radicalizing people, but instead of coming to the obvious conclusion that Israel should therefore not commit genocide, they’re citing it as evidence that people should stop protesting the genocide.

They could blame the shooting on the actual shooters. They could blame the people committing genocide for radicalizing the shooters. But instead they’re blaming the violence on the most peaceful people in the equation: the ones holding signs and saying violent massacres should NOT happen.

It's about the craziest, most evil manipulation you could possibly come up with.

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My heart is heavy for everyone who woke up today to their first day on the planet without their loved one. No doubt every breath taken today will feel like an impossible challenge. Each of these deaths will flatten their family, their friendship groups, their workplaces, their various communities, and their religious community like a nuke, and the trauma will take years to get over. That’s done; that's baked in. This is as true in Bondi as it is in Gaza.