14 డిసెంబర్, 2025

"Police Say Jewish Community Targeted in Deadly Sydney Attack/Two people were in custody after the shooting at Australia’s best-known beach during a Jewish event."

The NYT reports.

"The rare mass shooting sent crowds scattering on Australia’s best-known beach.... Shootings are rare in Australia, a country with one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world."

111 కామెంట్‌లు:

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

Only the criminals have guns there.

Nancy చెప్పారు...

That is an impetus for me to attend the local Chabad outdoor menorah lighting today despite the bitter cold.

Robert Marshall చెప్పారు...

One shooter dead, one in police custody. Why no names? I'm guessing that we know why. Time will tell.

Well, I popped up another tab to see what Mr. Google knows. Naveed Akram. No surprise there.

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

That remind me, I have to go out and buy a Springfield M1A before they're illegal here in VA.

rehajm చెప్పారు...

Yes how dies this happen? Civilian gun ownership is highly illegal in Australia.

Robert Marshall చెప్పారు...

Inspiring video: https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/watch-bondi-beach-gunman-tackled-by-bystander-hailed-for-heroism/4076529/?ref=Alsoread_article

"Straight fucking legend"

Josephbleau చెప్పారు...

The intifada has been globalized by immigration. It used to be that Jews were only killed in Israel, well, at least after the unpleasantness in Germany. Intifada, in Arabic, means the shaking off, I guess like shaking off fleas. That sounds like the Arab viewpoint.

Humperdink చెప్పారు...

Speak hate of Trump and an assassin surfaces. Speak hate of Jews …. well you know the drill.

Mike (MJB Wolf) చెప్పారు...

“Police say.” I’m troubled by the way media frames this as well.

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

Arabs vs. Jews? Who'd have thunk?

Mike (MJB Wolf) చెప్పారు...

As if there’s reason to be skeptical of the FACT that again Jews were specifically targeted on the first night of Hanukkah.

buwaya చెప్పారు...

I posted a few days ago that there has been "chatter" regarding Muslim attacks over Christmas. I assumed in the US, but of course this all is global.

Enigma చెప్పారు...

Given that many guns were banned in Australia and the UK, and then many knives were banned in the UK, they'll continue to fight terrorists with narwhal tusks. Truth.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50870309

JRoj చెప్పారు...

Having just spent a couple of weeks with some very nice Aussies who were quite proud of their no gun and now no knife policies, it boggles the mind to wonder what those folks are thinking today.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Naveed akram is the shooter

Ann Althouse చెప్పారు...

That it happened is evidence that it so rarely happens.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Not that long ago actually

jim5301 చెప్పారు...

Not sure what this has to do with gun control. Australia gun death fatality rate dropped 70% after stricter gun laws enacted in the 1990s. Is the point that absent tough gun laws a lot of the beach goers would have been armed? Seems unlikely.

Humperdink చెప్పారు...

“Not sure what this has to do with gun control.”

Really? Gun control was supposed to prevent this crap. Total, 100% gun control means zero guns on the street, which the Aussies have. Tell me how bad guys could possibly get a firearm. Oh, they can still get them? Who knew?

Wince చెప్పారు...

Marsupials were made for concealed carry.

Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...

Gun control didn't prevent this, but common sense immigration control certainly would have.

jim5301 చెప్పారు...
ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.
Bob Boyd చెప్పారు...

A marsupial society is a polite society.

Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...

By the AI numbers : “As of late 2025, there are approximately 8.2 to 8.3 billion people alive today. The estimated total number of firearms available worldwide is over one billion, with the vast majority in civilian hands.”

n.n చెప్పారు...

Reasonable gun control in a liberal culture that entertains abortive ideation to relieve "burdens".

Temujin చెప్పారు...

When you chant to globalize the intifada, this is what it means. And soon, it'll be coming at others of us. There is much to say about this, but frankly, anyone discussing 'gun control' after this horror is at a level of naiveté that does not even grant entrance into this discussion. Take the social science coffee shop debates elsewhere.
Today, around Western nations, Jews have to have armed security to celebrate our holidays. To go to a party. To attend any event that will knowingly host other Jews. To meet with friends at Bondi Beach. And the world just keeps on pretending that this is OK.

It is not. And honestly, I'd love to scan the other posts today, but it's hard for me to look at David Sedaris as anything but trite when I see what is going on. And how wary I have to be traveling or attending things these days. And yes...I will be armed. I'm an American, after all.

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

"When you chant to globalize the intifada, this is what it means."

Yes, it does.

Wince చెప్పారు...

Bondi. Beach… Don’t get Trump started!

jj121957 చెప్పారు...

Australia recently recognized Palestine. Australian Jews should have heeded the warning and emigrated.

Steve చెప్పారు...

Australia chose safety over freedom and now have neither.

Kirk Parker చెప్పారు...

Joe Bar,

You won't regret it.

john mosby చెప్పారు...

Was listening to the reporting and analysis on GB News this morning. Living Treasure Michael Portillo pointed out that Oz enacted their gun laws with bipartisan support immediately after another mass shooting. He asked his guests if this incident would spur another big drastic legislative package. Everyone kind of danced around the unspoken assumption that such legislation would have to be either strict immigration control or stricter control of the law-abiding population. (how you could achieve the latter, I don't know - Oz has become pretty damn authoritarian. But I'm sure some MPs have legislation ready to go!)

The NSW Police Commissioner, during his presser, stated inter alia that riot squads were being deployed to keep everyone safe. Hmm. What sorts of riots was he expecting? Ones like the October 8 demonstrations, blaming the Jews for their own deaths? Or anti-terrorist riots like in Britain after Southport? CC, JSM

narciso చెప్పారు...

Port arthur followed dunblane and murdoch fanned the flames

Peachy చెప్పారు...

Achilles and Candy ass Owens(D) assure us that these Jews faked their own deaths.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Was there a Jewish Holiday? There seems to be alot of them. Every violent attack seems to occur before, during, or after the endless stream of Jewish Holiday and events. And Holocaust rememberances.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Whites are becoming a minority in Austrailia. I'm sure Bill Maher is happy.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Austrailia used to be picky over immigrants. No doubt some Muslim is behind the attack. Consequence of prior actions.

Tom T. చెప్పారు...

Was there no security or police presence at a large Hanukkah event? Shameful neglect by the Aussie authorities if so. The hero of the day was an unarmed bystander who tackled one of the gunmen. Moreover, this hero is himself Muslim. Would be great to see the Muslim community start to actively oppose this kind of terror.

john mosby చెప్పారు...

The Australian newspaper reports one of the deaths is a Holocaust survivor. From Ukraine.

Imagine being a 90 yo Southern black guy, maybe the son and definitely the grandson of slaves, and you get lynched by the Klan in 2025. What would be going thru your mind? “I was right - you can’t trust these white mothafuckas.” Crockett and Reid would be echoing it from their platforms.

Nobody’s going to do that for this guy. CC, JSM

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Pretty much the whole thing on video here. You don't see anyone shot except one of the terrorists, and that from a long distance.

Fucking animals.

After the gunmen are subdued, the police have a hard time controlling the crowd.

Robert Marshall చెప్పారు...

For a while, the NYT published online the name of one of the shooters, Naveed Akram. Now, their "live update" page has no names, no discussion of who was doing the intifada at Bondi. Their "what we know" page says the names have not been released, but that's a lie.

What may be a surprising revelation: the name of the bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the shooters was Ahmed Ahmed, a local fruit-stand vendor. Nice work, Ahmed!

Yancey Ward చెప్పారు...

Looks like Australia needs to ban gun ownership.

Yancey Ward చెప్పారు...

Jim53IQ,

Since the majority of gun fatalities are suicides in the U.S. one can guess that the ratio is even higher Australia simply based on demographics of suicide. Wanna bet that 70% drop was fewer suicides by firearm and replaced by a corresponding rise in suicides by other means?

TobyTucker చెప్పారు...

Seeing as the linked article fails to say anything at all about the identity of the gunmen, you know for sure they weren't native Australians, just like when a story about a politician involved in a scandal and his/her party affiliation isn't identified you knew it was a Democrat.
FYI - Australia had a big gun confiscation drive after a mass shooting in 1998. As the saying goes, if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.







Assistant Village Idiot చెప్పారు...

When they emphasise the gun deaths as if "death" is not a sufficient category of its own, it is because they don't want you to think about the overall violent death rate. They want you to think you would be safer if they took guns away.

I worked in mental health including forensic units for over forty years and knew at least two dozen murderers or attempted murderers. Not one of them had used a gun. They used cars, poison, fires, explosives, knives, strangling, drowning, pushing off balconies...plenty of other choices.

narciso చెప్పారు...

The telegraph says he is naveed akram who attended an islamic center madrassa in 2022

Paul చెప్పారు...

Just in case you missed it...

“Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No one should believe that the war that we are waging is just the war of the Islamic State alone. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels.”

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS caliph

"It is the nature of Islam to dominate not to be dominated; to impose its laws upon all nations and to extend its power to the entire world".

Hassan al-Banna, founder Muslim Brotherhood

narciso చెప్పారు...

Who is Naveed Akram, the Bondi Beach shooter? https://share.google/fJd4IGRfEaZbCPkMQ

narciso చెప్పారు...

https://t.co/cWaDzDAqnD

etbass చెప్పారు...

RCOCEAN II said, "Was there a Jewish holiday? There seems to ba a lot of them."

That's the answer. Ban Jewish holidays.

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

narciso's 12:08 link: "This is what Labour MP Lola McEvoy said following the terror attack on Bondi Beach.

"We should try to detoxify the way we think of people who aren't like us, because *diversity is our strength*""

Insane.

Narr చెప్పారు...

"That's the answer. Ban Jewish holidays."

That's extreme. Just forbid Jews from celebrating their holidays in public.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Dont mind the sharks that cacharophobic (checks notes)

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Wife and I love Sydney. We'll be there in a couple of months. Won't be going to Bondi. I've been there, and don't really see the attraction anyway.

There's another place in Sydney we do frequent, Martin Place, that saw a jihadi terrorist attack in 2014. I don't think the framing that these things never happen in Australia isn't really accurate.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Lindt Cafe siege remembered 10 years after terrifying images beamed around the world - ABC News https://share.google/gUfwNTGN0zd0Mau8f

Clyde చెప్పారు...

Imported murderers doing the jobs Australians won’t do.

Clyde చెప్పారు...

Imported murderers doing the jobs Australians won’t do.

john mosby చెప్పారు...

AVI: “ When they emphasise the gun deaths as if "death" is not a sufficient category of its own, it is because they don't want you to think about the overall violent death rate….Plenty of other choices.”

You’d think the Ozzies would know that, from one of their folksongs. Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT, Neck ties, contracts, High voltage…CC, JSM

Leora చెప్పారు...

I think I prefer places where armed citizens can protect themselves and others from evildoers to a place where unarmed people have to tackle shooters (Bondi Beach) or hide in storage closets (Brown).

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

The hero who disarmed the one shooter didn't dare shoot the bastard. Australian government would have strung him up by his thumbs.

As a result, the shooter was free to join his partner and keep shooting people. Sick.

X. P. Callahan చెప్పారు...

I was surprised to see that the New York Times was fairly quick to report this new pogrom. Also surprised to see that the Times got all the way to paragraph 5 before blaming Benjamin Netanyahu.

rehajm చెప్పారు...

but frankly, anyone discussing 'gun control' after this horror is at a level of naiveté that does not even grant entrance into this discussion

…a picture of this comment accompanies the dictionary definition of unpersuasive

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

Several bombs found in car at fine site.

Big Mike చెప్పారు...

As the saying goes, if guns are outlawed, only Muslims will have guns.

@TobyTucker, FIFY

Big Mike చెప్పారు...

So now Australia understands what “Globalize the Intifada” means. Coming soon to a Democrat-run American city near you.*

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* May have already come to Providence, RI, if I’m right about why details of the Brown University gunman and his targets have not been released.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

You can't "ban" Jewish Holidays and Holocaust celebrations. There are too many of them. Is it Hannakuh already? How long does it last.

Rusty చెప్పారు...

That'll teach em to be Hebrew in public.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Looked it up. Hannuakah lasts 8 days! BTW, our local grocery stores had some funny signs up. One said "Happy Hannukah, get a blah, blah to celebrate" the other sign the next aisle down said "Celebrate the Holiday with XXX".

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

I think the sydney beach killer and the brown killer are going to have something in common. And it wont be their age or how tall they are.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

The IDF taught the Gazans not to be alive in public.

Big Mike చెప్పారు...

RCOCEAN II said...

The IDF taught the Gazans not to be alive in public.


They don’t seem to have learned their lesson. Apply the training materials harder!

narciso చెప్పారు...

Why do pakistanis hate jews so much is the question

Big Mike చెప్పారు...

As the saying goes, if guns are outlawed, only Muslims will have guns.

… and Tren de Aragua and MS-13 and inner city gangbangers.

Vance చెప్పారు...

I see RCocean has posted like ten times in this thread... and not a single mention of sorrow over the deaths or actual moral opprobiation on the Muslim terrorist.

One begins to think that RCOcean is blaming the Jews celebrating one of the oldest holiday weeks in the world, Hanukah, for actually existing.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Just call him haman

narciso చెప్పారు...

The hamas fan boi

Christopher B చెప్పారు...

Some additional reporting coming in (links to Instapundit posts)

Aussie police report multiple IEDs were also found (scroll down) Also includes a reminder that following the Oct 7 attacks, demonstrators in Sydney walked around chanting "Gas the Jews"

Tangential related At least three antisemitic/Islamofascist attacks surfaced globally in the last 24 hours
1) Bondi Beach
2) German police arrested 5 plotting a Christmas Market attack
3) Home of a Jewish family in Redlands CA was attacked.

I have also seen reporting that the shooting at Brown was directed at a class being taught Jewish faculty member who was part of Brown's Judaic Studies program.

James K చెప్పారు...

"The IDF taught the Gazans not to be alive in public."

Yet 98 percent of them are still alive after they started a war by murdering hundreds of women and children. Worst genocide ever!

narciso చెప్పారు...


Enemy action
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2000295469738762714

narciso చెప్పారు...

I know how dare they show themselves

narciso చెప్పారు...


Didnt they call this globalize the intifada

https://share.google/7OXw2yMS7quo0YEt0

MikeD చెప్పారు...

Speaking of Australia's recent immigration policy versus years past, one need only read an old (1961), but funny, book about Italian immigrants: They're a Weird Mob. Available at Amazon

narciso చెప్పారు...

https://t.co/ESYrdOe7C1

narciso చెప్పారు...

Father and son shooters

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

I hate this extra word "community" that keeps getting used and tacked on. headlines should just read "Jews targeted in attack, Police say". It like when sports talkers keep saying "fan base" instead of "fans". The fan based wants a trade. Just say "fans".

john mosby చెప్పారు...

Ocean: Or Price Point. CC, JSM

TaeJohnDo చెప్పారు...

"That's the answer. Ban Jewish holidays."

"That's extreme. Just forbid Jews from celebrating their holidays in public."

Once they kill all the Jooous, problem solved.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Recognizing Palestine, that went well

Mike Yancey చెప్పారు...

“Rare mass shooting”?
Isn’t there supposed to be NO mass shootings? Idnt why they limited gun ownership?
The father and son terrorists had 6 LICENSED firearms!
So they gave licenses for firearms to the Muslim immigrants.

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

These animals were father and son?

narciso చెప్పారు...

Momma akram said he was a good boy though

Disparity of Cult చెప్పారు...

Sydney's law enforcement exchange program with Uvalde

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Reports are it took the police forever to get there. Why wasn't there a contingent at the event from the start? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to anticipate what happened.

narciso చెప్పారు...

Like thd police in demolition man

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!

narciso చెప్పారు...

You got it, but covid protesters

narciso చెప్పారు...

They have to have a firm hand

buwaya చెప్పారు...

Btw Michael Portillo's father was an exiled Spanish Republican. I didn't know that till I looked him up. The UK has had a lot of very prominent people of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or Sephardic Jewish origins, which is why I find these names so often. Going back to 19th century Benjamin Disraeli and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

narciso చెప్పారు...

One branch of my family is arteaga the more you know

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

"Michael Portillo's father was an exiled Spanish Republican."

What?

narciso చెప్పారు...

Fighter against Franco

buwaya చెప్పారు...

"Arteaga" is Basque of course, from Vizcaya probably but there are a bunch in Guipuzcoa, but of no specific origin IMHO, as it is rather generic. It means "from the place ot the oaks" or probably "from the oak grove". In Euskara Artea = oak. Given the Basque landscape that is hardly specific.
For Spanish and French names, I like the geneanet.com site as it queries the civil registry (registro civil) going back 150 years or more.

john mosby చెప్పారు...

Yes, I am not being ironic when I call Portillo a living treasure. Excellent example of immigrant assimilation. His pic should be in the OED next to the word 'English.' Public school and Oxbridge educated. Just the gentlest most cultured of men. He was probably going to lead the Tories in opposition, and maybe be PM one day, but he talked in an interview about his schoolboy same-sex explorations. Yeah, him and the other million British boarding-school kids. In the environment of the time, he had to step down. Had he waited about 10 years to 'come out,' they would have taken him by force to make him king. CC, JSM

narciso చెప్పారు...

Instead the tories languished in opposition for a decade and didnt learn any lessonS from it

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Original Mike = profile not available. Why? Because you're Narciso?

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

People are floating the name of Brown shooter - Erickson from Winsconsin. True? Or not?

Nice if someone in authority would let us in on the secret.

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Where'd this come from?

narciso చెప్పారు...

Supposedly army cybersecurity (doesnt that make feel safe)

Mr. T. చెప్పారు...

Kak, Ward, Inga, PedoFredo, and Groomer gadfly all silent...

They busy hiding the bullets and molotov cocktails?

narciso చెప్పారు...

No haman im not original mike

narciso చెప్పారు...

So hispano comprende

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