Adam

Young people running through an open field in southern Israel while men hunted them down. Young people running across sand in Sydney a little more than two years later while men hunted them down. Same ideology doing the shooting. Same people being shot and killed. One was a music festival. One was a Hanukkah gathering on a beach Australia likes to sell as a postcard. Fifteen people were murdered there, including a ten-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor, and rabbis who had come to light candles in a country that kept promising them they were safe. The people who spent three years calling October 7 “resistance” will now call Bondi a tragedy with no lineage. They will talk about mental health, or firearms, or two disturbed men who happened to bring Islamic State flags and homemade bombs to a Jewish festival. They will do anything except say the word that connects the two events. Then they’ll turn on anyone who notices the connection and call that noticing a phobia, because a phobia is easier to police than a pattern. Islamists went looking for Jews at a festival in Israel. Islamists went looking for Jews at a festival in Bondi. The distance between those two places isn’t an argument. It’s the evidence.