After the Bondi Beach shooting, the Israeli PM said he warned Albanese months ago that Australia\u2019s policy was \u2018encouraging antisemitism\u2019.<\/b>
\nFollowing the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Australia of not taking decisive action to tackle antisemitism.
Netanyahu said in a statement that he had warned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a letter four months ago, stating that \u201cthe Australian government\u2019s policy was promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia\u201d.
Australia and other leading nations formally recognised the State of Palestine this year in the wake of the devastating Gaza war.
\u201cYour call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire,\u201d Netanyahu wrote to Albanese. \u201cIt rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.\u201d
The Israeli prime minister wrote that antisemitism is a cancer. He accused Albanese, saying: \u201cYou did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country. You took no action. You let the disease spread and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today.\u201d
Netanyahu, however, praised the actions of a passer-by who disarmed one of the shooters: \u201cWe saw an action of a brave man \u2013 turns out a Muslim brave man, and I salute him \u2013 that stopped one of these terrorists from killing innocent Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n