A week after the anti-Semitic Terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney Thousands of people on Bondi Beach remembered the 15 people killed. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also attended the event organized by the Jewish community in the Australian state of New South Wales. Representatives of the Jewish community and the opposition accused him of not doing enough to protect Jews in the face of increasing anti-Semitism in the country. He recently announced to have the work of the secret services and law enforcement authorities examined.
Also in other parts Australia there were vigils. People across the country remembered those affected by the attack, local broadcaster ABC reported. The public was called upon to light a candle for the victims and pause for a minute’s silence at 6:47 p.m., the time the first shots were fired on Bondi Beach. The flags in Australia flew at half-mast.
Jewish community calls for clarification
New South Wales Jewish Community Deputies Chairman David Ossip reiterated support for government plans to set up a commission of experts to investigate the attack. Such a commission is necessary to determine how this disaster occurred.
Israeli President Izchak Herzog called for a global fight against anti-Semitism. “The global rise in hatred of Jews is a global emergency,” he said during a memorial service for the 15 killed in Jerusalem, Israel. In Germany, the President of the Central Council of JewsJosef Schuster, in view of the attack for more measures against hatred of Jews out of.
After the attack, Australia’s Prime Minister Albanese admitted failures in the fight against anti-Semitism. In response, he announced tougher laws against hate preachers and hate speech. The number of firearms in the country should also be drastically reduced through buybacks.
In which Attack last week had two men – a father and his son – on one during the start of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah celebrating crowd on Bondi Beach shot. 15 people were killed and more than 40 others were injured. The Australian authorities spoke of an anti-Semitic act of terrorism. They assume that the suspected perpetrators had connections to the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) or were ideologically influenced.
