A beach massacre displays bloodedly the linkage between antizionism and the new antisemitism

By Marika Sboros

(Courtesy of Daily Friend in S.A where article was first published)

There is good reason that anti-Zionism feels so righteous to those who preach it and so viscerally familiar to Jews forced to face it.

Anti-Zionism (the denial of Israel’s right to exist) is the spawn of a lethal truth exposed by the Bondi Beach terror attack against Jews in Australia on December 14, 2025.

The terrorists, reportedly inspired by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), killed 15 Jews, including a 10-year-old girl, two rabbis (one born in South Africa) and a Holocaust survivor, celebrating Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. They wounded more than 40, including two policemen, not all of them Jews.

The same lethal truth lies behind the unprecedented, gratuitous savagery of the October 7, 2023 terror attack against mostly civilian targets in southern Israel. That left more 1200 people dead, more than 5000 injured, and more than 250 kidnapped to Gaza as hostages. Not all victims were Jews.

That truth, say legal and historical scholars, is that anti-Zionism really is a modern mutation of the ancient virus of hatred known as antisemitism.

It has evolved, they say, by latching itself onto modern social constructs. In this case, the construct is the language around international law and human rights that has been “weaponised” in an “unconventional war” to delegitimise, demonise and destroy the state of Israel.

An allied strand to this truth is that anti-Zionism threatens not just Jews, who may or may not be Zionists, but anyone in the way of genocidal fanatics hellbent on wiping Israel from the face of the earth and all Jews with it.

Hamas proved that on October 7 by torturing, mass raping, murdering, burning alive and beheading not just Jews, not just adults, but also babies, children, the elderly, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouins, Buddhists, dogs and any living beings unlucky enough to stumble across their murderous paths.

Hamas also proved that Zionist really is the anti-Israel lobby’s code word for Jews, despite protestations from lobbyists that they are only showing “Palestinian solidarity”.

October 7 led American-Jewish atheist, neuroscientist, philosopher Sam Harris, an avowed non-Zionist, to declare presciently:

“We all live in Israel now. Some of us just haven’t realised it yet.”

Australians are realising that after the Bondi attack by a father-and-son terrorist duo.

Police shot dead Sajid Akram (50), an immigrant from India, at the scene. His Australian-born son, Naveed Akram (24), was critically injured but recovered in hospital. He has been charged with more than 50 terror counts.

If that was a father-son bonding session, it was the most perversely depraved one imaginable.

The elder Akram set off on the day heavily armed, on a family outing with all the hallmarks of a suicide pact. With ISIS flags in his car, he inducted his son into mass murder as if into a shared rite.

Both showed commitment to Islamist radicalisation not in isolation but in intimacy with terror against Jews as a shared project and strangers as collateral.

Against that obscene collapse of good parenting stood its brave, moral opposite in extraordinarily courageous, unarmed civilians. 

A dash-cam video shows Boris and Sofia Gurman, a Russian-Jewish couple in their 60s, confronting the terrorists as they emerged from their car. Boris managed to grab a gun from one of the terrorists but both he and Sofia were fatally shot.

They were found dying in the street in each other’s arms.

As courageous and but luckier was Muslim bystander Ahmed Al Ahmed. A video shows him moving towards the gunfire, risking his life to save others, and wresting a large rifle from Akram. Al Ahmed was shot in the interchange but has recovered well in hospital.

And then, although too soon to say if he was also lucky, was Israeli Gefen Biton, identified as the “man in the red shirt”, who chose to run straight into the line of fire alongside Al Ahmed. Biton too was shot – multiple times – and is in critical condition, currently lying in a coma in an ICU having undergone several surgeries. 

On December 15, Sarah Ettedgui, a Canadian “proud Sephardi Jew” and corporate lawyer with a psychology background, took to X (formerly Twitter) to call out the Bondi attack as: “ideologically motivated violence rooted in contemporary anti-Zionism.”

Ettedgui called anti-Zionism “antisemitism expressed in a political vocabulary” and a “transnational mass hate movement that has reshaped university culture, activist networks and even mainstream political spaces”.

Look no further in South Africa for prime examples of anti-Zionism “reshaping” university culture than the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Anti-Zionism is looking like the main driver of the moral inversion happening at the highest levels of leadership at UCT and on other campuses.

A recent example is UCT’s Convocation elections. Anti-Israel lobbyists hailed the newly elected executive committee as a sign of success of their stated campaign to ensure a campus that is no longer a “home for Zionists”.

Ettedgui has pointed out that the Bondi Beach attack did not emerge in a vacuum. It was birthed in an environment that “defends calls to globalise the intifada as protected speech, dismisses Jewish fear as exaggeration and treats enforcement of existing laws as optional.”

She joins others who say that anti-Zionism is not just critique of Israeli state policy. It is mostly a framework that assigns “collective guilt to Jews, treats Jewish presence as provocation and allows Jew hatred to adapt.”

Crucially, when that hatred is “laundered through political language and left unchallenged, it does not remain symbolic for long,” Ettedgui said.

It speedily spirals into violence against Jews.

That political language-laundering showed up in stark relief in South Africa on December 16, in The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s statement on the Bondi Beach attack.

Kathrada was an anti-apartheid activist and senior leader in the liberation struggle, a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. He spent 26 years in prison, mostly on Robben Island, with his close friend and comrade, Nelson Mandela.

After apartheid collapsed, Kathrada remained a moral voice in public life, known for his principled commitment to non-racialism, constitutionalism and ethical leadership.

Hope springs eternal, and I’m hoping his eponymous foundation’s statement on the Bondi Beach terror attack would have horrified him. 

The Foundation denounced the Bondi terror onslaught against Jews simply as an “attack on a Jewish religious festival” by “two gunmen”. It quoted Foundation executive director Neeshan Balton sending condolences to “the Australian people”.

Somewhat disingenuously, it claimed that the motive for the attack was currently “unknown”.

In fact, it was known to the world watching on December 14 as a targeted terrorist assault on Jews. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used precisely such language that same evening, calling it “an act of evil, antisemitism terrorism.”

New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon declared it a terrorist incident on December 14.

The Foundation statement segued seamlessly into anti-Zionist rhetoric, including the libelous, “genocide in Gaza” claim against Israel.

It quoted Balton saying that anti-Zionism differed “fundamentally” from antisemitism; and “conflation of the two – often by proponents of Israel themselves – should be guarded against.”

He said it “paves the way for the legitimate challenging of a political concept to be dangerously blurred with clearcut religious hate.”

Balton ended by dismissing the Bondi attack as the “recent killing of 15 more people in a different part of the world altogether…” and “possibly indicative of the global repercussions of the genocide.”

He would have done better to take a leaf from the book of the eponymous family foundation of the late Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and wife Leah.

On December 15, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation condemned the Bondi Beach attack “in the strongest possible terms” as “a violent antisemitic attack” and an “attack of hatred” against “the Jewish community and the dignity and safety of all people.”

Imam Tawhidi, Australian representative of the Global Imams Council (GIC), was similarly forceful.

On December 15, Tawhidi issued a statement unapologetically punctuated with J-words (Jews, Jewish), where the Kathrada Foundation used one (Jewish), once only.

In it, Tawhidi condemns the Bondi Beach attack as “barbaric,” a “calculated antisemitic act of terror,” driven by “hatred, cowardice and moral depravity,” and a crime that “stains the conscience of humanity.”

It is what “globalising of the intifada looks like,” he says. “Any individual or ideology that targets Jews or justifies violence against them … is not representing Islam but desecrating it.”

The GIC “stands in unbreakable, unapologetic solidarity with the Jewish community of Australia” and “Jewish communities worldwide,” Tawhidi says.

Ettedgui says that we are (or should be) all far past the point that can justify “soft language, indirect framing or strategic silence.” And it is not radical to call anti-Zionism what it clearly is to most proponents – a hate movement,

It is “necessary and accurate,” she says.

That accuracy is:

 “…the starting point for any strategy that intends to protect Jewish communities and their allies today.”

Tawhidi would endorse that sentiment.

He calls on Muslims everywhere to confront extremist ideologies in their own communities and actively build “bonds of respect and protection for their Jewish brothers and sisters.”

He calls on authorities globally to crush terror against Jews decisively, and to expose and hold accountable without exception, all those who incite, fund, promote or excuse it.

Tawhidi channels Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel, in declaring that “silence is complicity” and “neutrality in the face of terror is a moral failing.”

Until that silence and neutrality lift, the global hunting of Jews under the cloak of anti-Zionism will go on.

About the writer:

Marika Sboros is a South African freelance investigative journalist with decades of experience writing fulltime for the country’s top media titles on a wide range of topics. She started her career as a hard-news reporter in the newsroom of the now defunct Rand Daily Mail, a campaigning anti-government newspaper during the worst excesses of the apartheid era. She commutes between South Africa and the UK.

While the mission of Lay of the Land (LotL) is to provide a wide and diverse perspective of affairs in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by its various writers are not necessarily ones of the owners and management of LOTL but of the writers themselves.  LotL endeavours to the best of its ability to credit the use of all known photographs to the photographer and/or owner of such photographs (0&EO).

Washington DC, Colorado, Manchester, Bondi. Where next?

By Sir Mick Davis

(Courtesy of The Spectator where this article first appeared)

Jews had gathered on Bondi Beach to celebrate the first night of Chanukah, the festival of light and freedom. Uniquely among Jewish festivals, Chanukah is celebrated in public. Generations of families came to light candles on Sydney’s famous coastline and say: we belong here too. And then two gunmen opened fire: 15 people murdered; 40 wounded. The victims include London born Rabbi Eli Schlanger and Alex Kleytman, who survived the Holocaust but, 80 years later was murdered for being a Jew.

On Bondi Beach, Jews celebrating that freedom were attacked and murdered.

This was not ‘senseless violence’ – the very phrase stupefies us into passivity, unable to name, identify and deal with the specific hatred behind it. This was a calculated attack on Jews celebrating a festival that commemorates our refusal to be erased from the public square, our determination to spread light in the face of darkness and maintain freedom despite tyranny.

The bitter truth, however, is that in 2025, Jews in the Diaspora are no longer free, but shackled by antisemitism. Our children learn lessons no child should: where the exits are, what to do if the glass breaks. We worship behind bulletproof doors and bombproof windows after passing through security guards not because we want to, but because we must. We are sick of explaining this, having our concerns dismissed or minimised and having to go through the same tiresome process after each and every outrage.

It cannot be only our problem. If a society’s Jews aren’t free neither is that society.

But we refuse to give in to the relentless campaign to intimidate and erase us. The message is constant: you live here on sufferance. You may be tolerated, but only if you are invisible. When Jews venture out publicly, we are targeted by hostility that too many have normalised.

We have warned that where Jew-hatred is normalised, anti-Jewish violence is inevitable. The so-called ‘pro-Palestine’ marches week after week have been recruiting grounds for those who carry out violence and those who justify it. Hate-filled demonstrations outside synagogues precede bullets through their doors. Calls for murder outside opera houses precede murders on beaches.

Washington DC, Colorado, Manchester, Bondi. Where next?

On the streets of London, Manchester, Sydney, New York and Paris, mobs have chanted for violence, glorified terror and demonised Jews with language that would be instantly recognised as incitement if used against any other minority. Jewish students harassed, Jewish businesses vandalised, Jewish events cancelled after being deemed ‘too difficult’ to protect.

We need more than perfunctory condemnation when the drumbeat of hate predictably leads to bloodshed. We need action.

Democracies must allow protest but the language and actions of protests matter. Protests that undermine the rights of others to exist safely are not legitimate dissent but calls for violence.

Who will stand up instead of standing by?

We don’t ask that everyone be like Ahmed al Ahmed, the heroic onlooker who with breathtaking courage disarmed one of the shooters and is now recovering in hospital. We do, however, expect those who can act to do so – from government, to police, to music venues, universities and broadcasters.

The authorities and wider public must make clear that it is the antisemites and not the Jews who will be erased from public spaces.

First, call it what it is: antisemitism. Not ‘community tension’, not ‘imported conflict’. Jew-hatred, adapted for modern tastes, laundered through modern slogans, and unleashed on Jews. Saying death to Zionists it is not just violent language but antisemitic. Recognise that saying death to the ‘Zionist entity’ means death to the Jews – the outcomes are indistinguishable.

Second, draw red lines and enforce them. Protect protest, of course, but reject incitement and intimidation. If a march, a concert or public event calls for violence, glorifies Jew-killing terrorist groups, uses antisemitic imagery or vilifies a minority community it is not a protest for democratic rights but a threat to them and should result in arrests and prosecutions far more often.

Third, stop indulging and making excuses for Jew-hate because confronting it is inconvenient. Stop the backdoor boycott of ‘safety concerns’ whether at comedy venues or European football matches. If Jews aren’t safe, neither are you.

Finally: choose solidarity that costs something. Not boilerplate statements but the solidarity that shows up – at vigils, schools, synagogues – in daylight, openly, without fear or equivocation.

We get to this point when the majority are silent in the face of evil. Jews are all too aware of those who hate us but it is the bystanders who send a shiver down our spine: universities too cowardly to condemn antisemitic incitement; media companies who platform terrorist apologists; sporting bodies whose response to murdered Jews is pathetic; police turning a blind eye to or failing to recognise virulently antisemitic chants; the friends and colleagues with something to say about everything but nothing to say about this.

And here is perhaps the most pernicious idea of all: that some people possess a unique pain that allows them to disrupt society and deprive Jews of basic freedoms. Freedom of association. Freedom to walk the streets without fear. Freedom to practice their religion. Freedom to have a connection to the only Jewish country on earth without vilification. Freedom simply to be.

The lights of Chanukah are not lights of naïveté, but of resolve. The Maccabees pushed back against a powerful empire because it sought to erase their freedom and identity. On Bondi Beach, Jews celebrating that freedom were attacked and murdered.

Our societies must now decide whether we mean it when we say ‘never again’. And history will record who stood up, and who stood by.

About the writer:

Sir Mick Davis is a former chair of the Jewish Leadership Council and chair of the Commission on Holocaust Education. He is co-founder of The London Initiative.

While the mission of Lay of the Land (LotL) is to provide a wide and diverse perspective of affairs in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by its various writers are not necessarily ones of the owners and management of LOTL but of the writers themselves.  LotL endeavours to the best of its ability to credit the use of all known photographs to the photographer and/or owner of such photographs (0&EO).

“Never Again” was an empty promise

By Andrew Fox

Bondi. Manchester. Washington. Colorado. The list continues. Today, Jewish blood was shed on the sands of Bondi Beach. Fifteen Jews were shot at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, with dozens more wounded. I am utterly furious. I am incandescent with rage. This horror did not happen out of nowhere. We all saw it coming. Again.

“Never again”? Yeah, right.

It was not an isolated act of madness in Australia; it exists everywhere. In Manchester this past Yom Kippur, a jihadist rammed a car into worshippers and stabbed people at a synagogue, murdering two Jews before police subdued him. In Washington, DC, an American gunman opened fire outside a Jewish museum, killing two young Israeli embassy staffers. As he was arrested, he shouted “Free, free Palestine!” to reveal the twisted ideology that fuelled his slaughter. In Colorado, an Egyptian immigrant attacked a peaceful pro-Israel rally with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, injuring seven; an 82-year-old woman later died from her burns. From continent to continent, Jews are being hunted.

Enough.

For two years now, since Hamas launched its latest war, a wave of anti-Jewish hate has swept through the West. The warning signs have been flashing: in Australia, anti-Jewish incidents tripled in the year after the war began. Similar spikes have occurred across Europe and the USA.

Swastikas on schools. Mobs chanting for intifada. Jewish students hiding their Stars of David. It has been escalating steadily. Now the inevitable has happened again – the hate has turned murderous. We know precisely who helped create this atmosphere. I am looking at everyone who fed this beast. Every single one of them has blood on their hands.

Everyone who spent two years spreading antisemitic blood libels straight from Hamas — blood on their hands. (They parroted every lie Hamas spewed, from fake “hospital massacres” to wild casualty figures. They stoked the flames that led directly to Bondi and beyond.)

Everyone sucked in by Hamas propaganda, who spent two years shrieking online about “Gaza genocide” or confected war crimes while excusing or ignoring Hamas’s atrocities — blood on their hands.

Everyone who attended the weekly hate marches in Western cities, those angry street mobs that normalised Jew-hatred under the guise of “Free Palestine” — blood on their hands. They created the permissive atmosphere for this violence.

Everyone who took Qatari or Iranian media money to peddle lies about Israel — blood on their hands. (They know who they are – the talking heads on state-backed TV channels, selling out truth for petro-dollars and spreading venom.)

South Africa’s leaders and their fellow travelers, Amnesty International and other NGOs, and all those who kept slandering Israel with vexatious “genocide” accusations – blood on their hands. Their propaganda provided moral cover to Hamas and depicted Jews as rightful targets.

Every country that rewarded Hamas’s 7th October massacre by recognising a Palestinian state (a move Netanyahu rightly called a “huge reward to terrorism”) — blood on their hands. Instead of isolating the genocidal Hamas regime, they gave its supporters hope and legitimacy. Terrorists drew encouragement from their cowardice.

The hack researchers and NGOs churning out pseudo-academic garbage about Gaza: Airwars, AOAV, The Lancet, and others, treating casualty figures and social media posts as absolute truth — blood on their hands. By exaggerating and/or politicizing casualty numbers and events in Gaza without proper context, they portrayed Israel as a villain and incited mobs worldwide.

Those ideological extremists who cheer every pro-Palestinian criminal and even support terrorists on hunger strike to blackmail the justice system — blood on their hands. They may pretend it is about human rights, but their one-sided backing for pro-Palestinian terrorism (even after 7 October) has emboldened the worst Jew-haters.

Every politician and official who ignored the warning signs, who looked the other way time after time after time — blood on their hands. You had one job: to protect your citizens. To protect Jews. They failed, and now Jews lie dead on a beach, in a synagogue, and on city streets on their watch.

How long can our leaders ignore this?

How many red lines must be crossed?

I am tired of the empty platitudes and crocodile tears from politicians who let this climate fester. They downplayed antisemitism when it was graffiti, flag-waving, or relentless harassment. They shrugged when thousands marched through our capitals waving terrorist flags and shouting for intifada, week after week. They stayed silent when Jewish families begged for protection. Now those same leaders act shocked at the carnage? Spare me. Their cowardice and appeasement helped unleash this nightmare.

Mark my words: sooner or later, good and honest citizens will take matters into their own hands. If the authorities refuse to crack down on this violent Jew-hatred, people will feel they have no choice but to defend themselves. When that day comes, and if vigilante violence erupts because governments failed to act, there will be even more blood on the hands of those who enabled all this. I dread that possibility, but can anyone blame Jews and their true allies for being at the breaking point? For feeling abandoned and desperate?

I am furious. Searing, righteous fury, and I will not apologise for it. The murders at Bondi Beach have shattered any illusion of safety. Jews are bleeding, dying, in 2025, in free countries, simply for being Jewish. This is not just a Jewish problem. It is a problem for everyone who believes in decency and civilisation.

No more.

No more indulgence for the hatemongers. No more free passes for the enablers and apologists. Politicians: clean up this mess now, before it spirals further. Protect your Jewish citizens as you promised, or step aside for someone who will.

The blood cries out from Bondi, from Manchester, from Washington and Colorado. To all those who lit the fuse and fanned the flames: I hold you responsible. Their blood is on your hands, and it will never wash off.

About the writer:

A veteran of three grueling tours of Afghanistan, Major Andrew Fox holds a Batchelor’s degree in Law & Politics, a Master’s in Military History & War Studies, and is currently studying for a PhD in History.

While the mission of Lay of the Land (LotL) is to provide a wide and diverse perspective of affairs in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by its various writers are not necessarily ones of the owners and management of LOTL but of the writers themselves.  LotL endeavours to the best of its ability to credit the use of all known photographs to the photographer and/or owner of such photographs (0&EO).

It’s not permissive gun laws but unchecked cascading ideological hate that is killing Jews.

By Jonathan Feldstein

As a Jewish father, my job is to ensure my children can swim and be educationally equipped for a profession. While one can explore what this may mean on a deeper rabbinic level, simply put for the purpose of this article, it is to provide my children with the necessary skills to protect themselves from typical daily dangers and live and be productive members of society.

Reading reports of the father-son duo, Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, who perpetrated the antisemitic murder in Sydney, Australia on the first day of Chanukah, I was shocked to think that either the father had the evil idea and invited his son, or his son was so indoctrinated that he invited his father to join his shooting orgy. Either way, the father failed, and his son was raised in the rot of this failure.

No doubt, people will rush to cite permissive gun laws as the cause of the massacre, but the truth is it’s the permissiveness of the pervasiveness of radical Islam. This more than guns must be outlawed and eliminated.

Unfortunately, we see such father-son evil more and more as a consequence of widespread radical Islam. We see it in the Sydney rampage. We see it with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Islamic republic all spreading their tentacles of evil with Israel and Jews in their cross hairs.  We also see it throughout Africa and around the world where Christians are persecuted as part of a multi-generational family tradition.

We see it among Muslims themselves, with fathers and sons murdering their daughters and sisters in what are perversely called “Honor Killings”.  There is no honor in these premeditated murders, and there is no honor for a father who raises his child to live by this evil creed.

Whoever had the horrific idea to carry out this massacre will be revealed, but it almost doesn’t matter.  Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once noted, “We will only have peace when the Arabs love their children more than they hate ours.” That must be widened to all of extremist Islam. By raising their children in this death cult, they are not loving parents but guilty of child abuse. More evidence of this was demonstrated in the article, “IDF airs interrogation clips of terrorist father and son confessing to rape on Oct. 7.”

Among the vilest reports since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and savage massacre of 1200 people, and kidnapping of more than 250, last year Israel revealed video confessions of a father-son team, Ahmad and Abdallah Radi. Breaching Israel’s border in an orgy of hate and destruction, Ahmed shamelessly brought his son Abdallah to participate in the murderous rampage. Both father and son were captured.  In separate interrogations, Ahmad and Abdallah confessed to murder and rape. In fact, they raped the same woman before Ahmad the father executed her.

Musical Message

In the wake of this and the Sydney massacre with a different Islamist father-son team, the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (CSNY) song, “Teach Your Children” came to mind. It’s a song about passing on values from one generation to the next, emphasizing the importance of teaching children well, helping them grow into their best selves, to create a better future individually, as a legacy from one generation to the next. If Sajid or Ahmad only had an ear for classic folk rock and not jihadi hate, maybe they’d have set a positive example, rather than transmitting to their son’s evil genocidal hatred.

CSNY sang:

 “You, …Must have a code that you can live by…Teach your children well…And feed them on your dreams.”

Today’s jihadi fathers live by a “code” of evil. Rather than feeding them on the dreams of building and doing something positive, becoming productive members of society, their vision and goals are exclusively to destroy Israel and to slaughter Jews.

The lyrics continue, “The one they pick’s the one you’ll know by.” Basically, CSNY is saying that a father’s legacy lives on through his children. Unfortunately, Sajid or Ahmad have transmitted a legacy of geocidal hate, fueled by extremist Islam founded in the Muslim Brotherhood which has become illegal in parts of the Arab world and, hopefully soon, in the US.

CSNY’s chorus implores parents to move beyond the struggles of the previous generation (“the father’s hell that did slowly go by”), and the importance of nurturing children’s dreams so they can live fulfilling lives.

Parents have a responsibility to imbue their children with good values, but also that children have the responsibility to choose the correct path, regardless of what they inherit from their parents.

“Teach Your Children” is a call to action for passing on life lessons, compassion, and hope to future generations.

This horrific stories of the father and son teams, Sajid and Naveed, and Ahmed and Abdullah, reminds me of another less hopeful classic American folk-rock song, Harry Chapin’s 1974 hit, “Cats in the Cradle.” After a life of neglecting his son by having “lots to do”, the father realizes his neglect has come back to him, singing woefully, “My boy is just like me.” 

This is the model by which the Islamic terrorists live. It’s up to them, the parents, to teach their children well, to have an active presence, to show them right from wrong, and to correct them when they go astray. It’s never a father’s role to teach a child to massacre, rape, sexually mutilate and murder, or to shoot up a holiday celebration anywhere, anytime, for any reason.

Rather than worshiping an evil ideology and a god who celebrates that, maybe they’d to well with a little 1960s classic folk-rock to change their future. Barring that, and for the self-preservation of Western society, the rot of extremist Islam must be outlawed and uprooted.

Australia and the permissive western countries which have opened their doors to extremist Islam and then failed to stand firmly against all it threatens enabling an evil to grow within with deadly consequences, must change course.

They need to be brave and bold, and eliminate this threat within before they are consumed by it.

About the writer:

Jonathan Feldstein ­­­­- President of the US based non-profit Genesis123 Foundation whose mission is to build bridges between Jews and Christians – is a freelance writer whose articles appear in The Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Townhall, NorthJersey.com, Algemeiner Jornal, The Jewish Press, major Christian websites and more.

While the mission of Lay of the Land (LotL) is to provide a wide and diverse perspective of affairs in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by its various writers are not necessarily ones of the owners and management of LOTL but of the writers themselves.  LotL endeavours to the best of its ability to credit the use of all known photographs to the photographer and/or owner of such photographs (0&EO).