My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:
Within hours of the horrific, antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney this month, the Israeli government and its proxies started pushing false narratives, outright lies and racism to a grieving nation.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli ministers blamed an Australian government that “normalised boycotts against Jews”, recognised the state of Palestine this year, and refused to shut down pro-Palestine marches.
Former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy posted on X (formerly Twitter): “Jews around the world live in fear because we are being hunted. October 7 inspired millions around the world and launched a global war against Jews.”
There was no logic or sense to this verbal onslaught at a time when the dead bodies were still warm on Bondi Beach. At that point, and still now, there’s no clear picture of the motives of the father and son accused in the slaughter of mostly Jews who had gathered to mark the first night of Hanukkah, although a link to Islamic State has been explored.
It was an outrageous intervention from a disgraced Israeli government accused of committing genocide in Gaza – and yet too many in the Australian and global media treated Netanyahu and his cronies as credible commentators, deferring to their supposed wisdom.
Read the whole column: Israel’s propaganda machine endangers every Jew on the planet – including me | Middle East Eye