Israel Weaponises Bondi Beach Atrocity - ALL Violence Must Be Opposed by Owen Jones

'After the nauseiating, horrifying anti-semitic attack on Jewish Australians as they celebrated Hanukkah together, full of joy and happiness on Bondi Beach at Sydney in Australia. I didn't want to talk about Israel and its ongoing genocide against the Palestinianpeople. Unfortunately, Israel and its cheerleaders have decided otherwise.They have decided to turn this hideous attack into an opportunity to justify genocide against the Palestinian people and to shut down those who oppose that genocide and in fact to demonize anyone who in the mildest possible way supports national self-determination for the Palestinian people. Here's what I wanted to talk about. What I want to talk about is the very real evil of antisemitism which is a hatred which within living memory culminated in the the shower the Holocaust the industrialized extermination of the Jewish people in Europe killing 6 million two-thirds of Europe Jewish population in a very short period of time as well as obviously the antisemitism which has existed long before that and then long after that predating Israel and its foundation and the way it's rising.

Now, you know, I want to talk about the responsibility that we all have, not least, well, well, sorry, when I say not least, I say not least on the left because we have a consistent view about justice and equality, but a responsibility to ensure that those in the Jewish diaspora feel safe and secure, that they feel that they don't have to, you know, flee for their lives as their ancestors did when things suddenly turn against them in the country which is their hope. You know what I want to talk about is unity against hatred. How all of us whatever communities need to come together and stand against anti-semitism and those who wish to hurt and murder Jewish people. 

I want to talk about the the horror on that iconic beach as Jewish Australians gathered for the start of Hanukkah eating donuts, celebrating, listening to music. That one of the victims was a little 10-year-old girl, another a survivor of the Holocaust. The horror of watching a day of joy end with people running for their lives as two gunmen indiscriminately fired into a crowd of Jewish Australians. I want to talk about how no cause on earth ever justifies murdering unarmed civilians. That whatever is going through the minds of these terrorists, the only cause underpinning what they did is hatred. And the only cause that they advance is hatred. I want to talk about Ahmed Al Ahmed, the Syrian born Muslim bystander who risked his life and was seriously injured as he wrestled one of the attackers and saved the lives of several others who could have been murdered with the gun that he rested from his grip.......'

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