Opinion

As an ex-policeman, I know exactly why it took dead Jews for the force to act against the hate mob

Too often, the advancement of senior officers depends less on what they do than on how well they can write up what they claim to have done

By Gill Levy

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Police officers gather in Trafalgar Square ahead of a planned protest in support of Palestine Action on October 4, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Israeli F-35i and F-15i aircraft fly alongside a US B-52 strategic bomber in a joint military exercise (Image: IDF)

By Mike Doran

Tucker Carlson claims Israel is a burden on the US. It reveals profound strategic ignorance

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Relatives of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi beach terror attack, lean over his coffin during his funeral on December 17, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Stephen Daisley

Jews had to die, repeatedly, before the UK acted on ‘globalise the intifada’

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By Maureen Lipman

There I was, childishly delighted to drink my own face

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Antisemitism is a national security threat

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A mourner lights candles outside Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 17, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Sydney terror attack

The dishonest ‘complicity’ argument driving the obsession with Israel

By a moral sleight of hand, anti-Zionists turn selective outrage into virtue, while refusing to reckon with the antisemitic violence their activism may inspire

By Shany Mor

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By Bernard-Henri Lévy

The intifada has been globalised

For what happened in Sydney could happen in any city in the world where one is still frivolous enough to believe that words are just words and that slogans bind only those who chant them

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Family members of victims react as they stand with other mourners near tributes in memory of those killed in the Bondi Beach terror attack. (Image: Getty)

By Jack Pinczewski

Australian society has failed its Jews at every level

The offers of more security funding are beyond parody. There is no wall high enough to protect the community, for the true barriers to the outrage at Bondi are those built in the human mind

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A vigil at Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 16, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Marc Cave

We need a new strategy to fight the ‘globalise the intifada’ murder campaign

Rebutting the lies told about Jews just doesn’t work, we need to define our own narrative

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A menorah surrounded by flowers at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of the shooting at Bondi Beach (Photo: Getty Images)

Leaders

From Bondi to Manchester: the cost of Western denial on antisemitism

Sydney lays bare the consequences of demonising Israel and shrinking from the fight against extremist ideology that now threatens Western societies themselves

By The JC Leader

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Police enforce a cordon after the terror attack on the Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

Rachel Reeves restores moral clarity on Israel

The Chancellor’s unapologetically Zionist speech – honest about Hamas’s October 7 atrocity, blunt about antisemitism, and courageous within her own Labour party – hints at a long overdue reset in the UK’s approach to Israel

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