Police say there have been multiple fatalities following a shooting near a Jewish gathering at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Follow live.

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    I’m assuming it’s someone who thinks they’re getting revenge for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Almost everyone I’ve met who would celebrate Hanukkah is no fan of Netanyahu’s war crimes but I guess for some Jewish = Israeli.

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      Or a neo-Nazi, or some incel who has no coherent political views but a formless rage, and knows nothing about Jews except that killing them is very edgy and would eclipse the shame of being a virgin with a vast porn collection.

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      Assuming helps nobody. Wait for the motives to be revealed by the investigators.

      There’s already a bunch of anti-Muslim statements rising on the usual places (YT, FB) because the only shooter identified so far has an Arabic-origin name.

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      Maybe.

      But you’re right that some people think that Jews and Israel are almost the same. It’s part of Israel’s propaganda.

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      My closest Jewish friend has shared how members of his family was forcibly removed from where they lived in Palestine because it was designated as an Arab zone during the same period as the Nakba. He blames zionists for it. At least his family didn’t end up stateless as a result, but I still can’t imagine how terrible being forced out of your home for something out of your control would be.

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        I am curious how the Palestinian Jews generally viewed the eastern European zionists fucking up the region.

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          He said his family was pissed as they felt the Zionist influx fucked up their community. Not sure how popular of a sentiment that was, though.

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        Hanukah is a traditional, albeit minor, Jewish holiday, it is mainly celebrated in the US to stop Jewish kids from getting jealous of their Christian peers getting to celebrate Christmas.

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        “Everyone I’ve met” (I have been to Israel a few times over my lifetime, but I haven’t talked to anyone from there recently)

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        Old use. Now antisemites usually hate children being raped to near death by packs of trained rape-dogs then shot in the head in a bombed out crater that used to be a hospital.