When Our Light Is Tested: The Bondi Massacre and the Choices Ahead

A call to action from a soldier who refused to look away as hatred came home.

For years, the warning signs were visible. Antisemitism moved from history and the Middle East into mainstream discourse, institutions, and public life across Western democracies.

Then, on a summer evening in Australia in December 2025—on the first night of Chanukah—a globalised call to intifada arrived on golden sand.

The Bondi Beach massacre exposed the consequences of tolerating incompatible ideologies and incendi...