Opinion

Antisemitism is a national security threat

Jew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

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Sebastian Gorka (r), National Security Council’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism, and Mike Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. (Image: Hudson Institute)

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

By Shany Mor

The dishonest ‘complicity’ argument driving the obsession with Israel

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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 Bernard-Henri Lévy

The intifada has been globalised

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

By Jack Pinczewski

Australian society has failed its Jews at every level

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

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People light chanukiah candles at the Bondi Pavillion in memory of the victims of the terror attack at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)

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Chanukah, freedom and the hysteria of a movement that sanctifies murder

We stagger on, unbowed. This is the message of this chag: light defeats darkness

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

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By Fiyaz Mughal

My fellow Muslims must stand up to antisemitism

Even at a candle-lighting vigil commemorating those murdered in Sydney, British Jews faced abuse. The scale and intensity of what I saw shocked me

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By Zeddy Lawrence

From safe haven to fear: how Australia became a dangerous place for Jews

Instead of confronting post-October 7 antisemitism and nipping it in the bud, the government offered nothing but words

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Mourners gather at a tribute at the Bondi Pavillion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Why did Bondi hero overshadow mass murder of Jews in the headlines?

Questions over media coverage linger even if there may have been good reasons for delay in saying attack was antisemitic

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Mourner at tribute to victims of the Bondi Beach attack (Photo by Izhar Khan/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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