Exploitation of Bondi attack – a shameless attempt to launder Zionist Genocide in Gaza

London — In the aftermath of the Bondi Beach attack, political actors have seized on the violence to frame pro-Palestinian activism as its driving force, flattening a complex chain of cause and effect into a narrative designed to delegitimise resistance to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
 
The propaganda narratives promoted by organisations such as the Community Security Trust are profoundly irresponsible. By portraying pro-Palestinian activism as inherently antisemitic or violent, they are actively working to rehabilitate Israel’s image, using the targeting of Muslims and the smearing of the movement as a political shield for genocide. This approach does not protect Jewish communities; it deepens polarisation, legitimises collective punishment, and provides Israel with a political lifeline at a moment of unprecedented global isolation. 

Public outrage against the mass killing of Palestinians, did not create this moment. What has created it is Israel’s long-standing and deliberate strategy of collapsing the distinction between Judaism and the actions of a state engaged in apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide. By framing its military campaign as one carried out in the name of Jewish survival, Israel has projected its crimes onto Jewish identity itself. This reckless conflation has endangered Jewish communities worldwide by encouraging the assumption that Jews, collectively, are responsible for and unequivocally support Israel’s actions.
 
This danger is compounded when Israeli religious and military figures publicly endorse and sanctify mass killing. The death of an IDF rabbi in this context cannot be divorced from the role he played in supporting and participating in a military campaign that has devastated Gaza. Acknowledging this reality is not an endorsement of violence; it is an indictment of a system that normalises genocidal rhetoric and participation, eroding moral boundaries with predictable consequences.
 
Responsibility for the current climate lies primarily with governments that have enabled Israel’s actions through political cover, military support, and the systematic dehumanisation of Palestinian life. By apologising for and facilitating the ongoing killing of civilians, Western states have dissolved the legal lines that, to an extent, once restrained violence. When states abandon accountability, they create the conditions in which individuals act outside the law.
 
Israel’s latest strategy is clear: to reframe the struggle for Palestinian liberation as a form of extremism rooted in Muslim bigotry, and to position itself as a victim rather than a perpetrator of mass violence. This manoeuvre may rehabilitate Israel’s image among its allies, but it does so at the cost of truth, justice, and the safety of civilians everywhere.

Ending the spiral of violence requires confronting the reality that impunity for genocide fuels instability far beyond Gaza. Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom are not competing concerns. Both are undermined by the same refusal to hold power to account.
 
This is not unprecedented. During the War on Terror, Western governments deliberately avoided analysing the political causes of violence because doing so would have implicated their own wars of aggression and mass killing of civilians across the Muslim world. Violence was instead portrayed as irrational extremism, disconnected from state actions, allowing cycles of violence to continue unchallenged. The same refusal to confront root causes is now being repeated.
 
Against this backdrop, narratives promoted by organisations such as the Community Security Trust are profoundly irresponsible. By portraying pro-Palestinian activism as inherently antisemitic or violent, they are actively working to rehabilitate Israel’s image, using the targeting of Muslims and the smearing of the movement as a political shield for genocide. This approach does not protect Jewish communities; it deepens polarisation, legitimises collective punishment, and provides Israel with a political lifeline at a moment of unprecedented global isolation.

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