On the advice of Anthony Albanese, the Australian Governor General invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia in the wake of the antisemitic mass murder of 16 people at a Hannukah celebration at Bondi Beach last December.
Antisemitism is evil.
Those murders were evil.
But antisemitism cannot be solved by any sort of Islamophobia. Or by ignoring 81,913 Palestinian deaths that make people passionately angry about what the nation of Israel has done in Gaza.
Some people have called Bondi the worst massacre in Australian history. Aboriginal people would not be likely to agree. Bondi wouldn’t get in to the top 100 of massacres measured by numbers of deaths if colonial massacres of Aboriginal people are considered.
To put Bondi into perspective, 16 Palestinians have been killed in the current war in Gaza once in just over every 4 hours since October 7 2013. There have been approximately 5,120 killings of 16 Palestinians in the war in Gaza compared to one killing of 16 people in Bondi last December.
(4.0222054 hours per 16 deaths. This is based on the Wikipedia figures of 81.913 deaths in the 858 days since 7/10/2023)
Wikipedia reports that, in October 2023, “Herzog accused the residents of the Gaza Strip of collective responsibility for the Hamas attack on Israel.” The Amnesty international website states: “The UN Commission, in its report of 16 September 2025, also found that this statement by Herzog, together with others by the Israeli leadership amounted to direct and public incitement to commit genocide under Article III(c) of the Genocide Convention.”
Anthony Albanese wants a lowering of the temperature about these atrocities.
He wats a Terra Nullius silence about Israel’s genocidal actions.
I don’t.
Who agrees with me?
Geoff Fox, 11 February, 2026, Melbourne, Australia
the speaker in the photo above is Senator Lidia Thorpe
LEFT BEHIND BY ALBANESE 