Israeli diaspora minister says Australia should have seen 'writing on the wall' before terror attack

Australian officials should person seen the "writing connected the wall" earlier past weekend's panic onslaught that near 15 radical dormant during the Hanukkah solemnisation astatine Bondi Beach successful Sydney, said Amichai Chikli, Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism.

Since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks connected Israel by Hamas, Australia has go a "hotbed" of antisemitism, Chikli told Fox News Digital, citing demonstrations with radical shouting antisemitic slogans and engaging successful violence. 

Slogans similar "Globalize the intifada" and the waving of flags successful enactment of Hamas, ISIS and different panic groups during an August protestation connected the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge encouraged the clime that led to the Bondi Beach attack, helium said. 

"The premier curate said that it was a objection of unification, of unity," said Chikli. "I deliberation that the enactment present failed to recognize that words person meanings, and incitement is thing which is very, precise dangerous. And truthful determination were zero actions from the government, zero condemnation."

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Israeli Minister For Diaspora Affairs and Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli (C) attends the Light Against Terror: Hanukkah Memorial lawsuit adjacent to Former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott (L) astatine Chabad of Bondi Synagogue connected Wednesday successful Sydney.  (George Chan/Getty Images)

"The penning was connected the wall," helium added. "It was not a surprise. We knew that it was going to happen, this mode oregon another, determination was going [to] beryllium violence."

Since the attack, which claimed the beingness of a 10-year-old miss and a Holocaust survivor, among others, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has moved to tighten the country's already beardown weapon laws. In summation to those killed, dozens much were wounded. 

"The authorities is prepared to instrumentality immoderate enactment is necessary. Included successful that is the request for tougher weapon laws," Albanese said Monday aft gathering with his National Cabinet. "If we request to toughen these up, if there's thing we tin do, I'm surely up for it."

The absorption connected weapon power is an effort to bypass the existent issue, said Chikli. 

WERE WARNINGS IGNORED IN AUSTRALIA TERROR ATTACK?

NSW Premier Chris Minns and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese be a property league astatine NSW Police headquarters, pursuing a deadly shooting incidental during a Jewish vacation solemnisation astatine Bondi Beach, successful Sydney, Dec. 16, 2025. (Hollie Adams/Reuters)

"It's inconvenient for this government, who was precise supportive of these pro-Palestinian demonstrations, to accidental it large and wide that we person a occupation of jihadist unit of extremist Islam," helium said. "I've ne'er heard the premier curate of Australia adjacent utilizing the words extremist Islam. It seems to beryllium beyond his capabilities to conscionable accidental the words extremist Islam.

"It's not the shotgun who killed these guiltless people. It is the antheral down it," helium added.

Albanese's bureau referred Fox News Digital to a Wednesday quality league successful which helium talked astir terrorism. 

"People who person this perversion of Islam that leads them to enactment Islamic State, and to person a presumption that someway determination is immoderate reward for them," helium said. "There is not. They are evil. We request to marque definite that we bash immoderate is wrong our powers. Now, that means education. It means arsenic well, stamping out, calling retired evil erstwhile we spot it. And we'll proceed to bash so, not conscionable arsenic a government, but arsenic a federation arsenic well."

In a podcast interrogation that aired the aforesaid day, Albanese said the suspects linked to the onslaught were motivated by "the benignant of ideology of the Islamic State."

"There were flags contiguous successful the backmost of their conveyance that they drove to Bondi successful bid to origin harm," helium said. "This is simply a perverse ideology, a violent ideology that does not respect quality life, and that is antisemitic successful character, but anti-humanity arsenic well." 

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Rabbi Yossi Friedman speaks to radical gathering astatine a angiosperm memorial by the Bondi Pavilion astatine Bondi Beach connected Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, pursuing Sunday's shooting successful Sydney.  (Mark Baker/AP Photo)

Dionne Taylor, the communications manager for the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council, antecedently told Fox News Digital that the authorities was warned astir the imaginable for unit against Jews. 

"It started with hatred speech," she said. "Then graffiti. Then nationalist demonstrations. Then firebombing synagogues, preschools, people’s homes, people’s cars. And present murder."

She said Jewish leaders and assemblage representatives repeatedly raised alarms with authorities and national officials, informing that inaction would pb to bloodshed. Taylor pointed to ceremonial submissions and a elaborate study produced by Australia’s peculiar envoy to combat antisemitism, which she said was acknowledged by the authorities but ne'er implemented.

Chikli, who has visited Australia since the onslaught and has attended the funerals for the victims, compared the Australian enactment to the Biden administration, which was criticized by immoderate who said it failed to telephone retired Islamic extremism successful favour of woke ideology. 

Israeli Minister For Diaspora Affairs and Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli speaks during the Light Against Terror: Hanukkah Memorial lawsuit astatine Chabad of Bondi Synagogue connected Wednesday successful Sydney. (George Chan/Getty Images)

On the other end, helium noted that the Trump medication has pressured American universities to code antisemitism and has moved to revoke the visas for overseas students who enactment successful anti-Israel demonstrations and foment extremist movements. 

"The Biden medication is akin successful presumption of ideology to the existent enactment present successful Australia – progressive, woke, anemic leadership," Chikli said. "Simple arsenic that, with zero capableness of addressing the menace of extremist Islam and zero actions."

A pistillate kneels and prays astatine a angiosperm memorial to shooting victims extracurricular the Bondi Pavilion astatine Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a time aft a shooting. (Mark Baker/AP Photo)

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He besides noted that helium hadn't seen existent Australian officials astatine the funerals for the victims.

Fox News Digital's Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.