Bondi Beach attack: How Zionism manufactures insecurity while claiming to protect Jews

Following the Bondi Beach attack, the exact familiar pattern has emerged. Suddenly, Jews are living in a state of constant fear, antisemitism is spiralling out of control, and criticising Israel is somehow equivalent to inciting violence against Jews. This narrative however, avoids confronting the uncomfortable truth necessary to ensure genuine safety for Jewish people. At some point, we need to be honest about reality. The danger facing Jewish communities today does not emerge from anti-war protests, Palestinian solidarity, or criticism of Israeli policy. It arises from the insistence that Zionism speaks for all Jews and that the actions of a violent settler-colonial state are synonymous with Jewish survival.  That equation has been catastrophic and predicted by Albert Einstein right after […]