Israeli Knesset member says Australian officials 'did nothing' amid rise of antisemitism before Sydney attack

Israeli Knesset Member Pnina Tamano-Shata joined a increasing fig of Israeli officials Monday successful calling retired the Australian authorities for allowing antisemitism to fester up of this weekend's violent attack.

Tamano-Shata told Fox News Digital that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and others saw the maturation of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment "right successful beforehand of their eyes" successful caller months. She said Australian officials had reports of rising antisemitism for months, "but they did nothing."

"When governments astir the world, and particularly successful Australia, don't bash thing that they tin bash earlier thing similar this happens, they are giving successful galore ways a greenish airy to antisemites and terrorists to wounded and to termination Jews," Tamano-Shata said.

"The authorities doesn't recognize that anti-Israel ideas and antisemitism – it is the caller antisemitism. There were a wide scope of attacks earlier this happened. We spot however they burned down a synagogue, we spot however they attacked an Israeli restaurant," she added. "This contented was successful beforehand of their eyes."

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Israeli Knesset Member Pnina Tamano-Shata addressed the antisemitic panic onslaught astatine Bondi Beach successful Australia. (Courtesy of Pnina Tamano-Shata)

Tamano-Shata's comments echo statements from Jewish leaders some successful Israel and Australia successful the aftermath of the violent onslaught successful Sydney connected Sunday, which killed 15 radical and hospitalized dozens more. The shooters targeted a Hanukkah solemnisation taking spot astatine Sydney's celebrated Bondi Beach.

Dionne Taylor, the communications manager of the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council, said it is simply a achy world that the onslaught didn't travel without warning.

"We person been wholly fto down by our government," Taylor told Fox News Digital. "We warned them that this snowball effect was going to happen, and it was lone a substance of clip earlier idiosyncratic got killed."

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Armed constabulary enactment astatine the country aft a shooting incidental astatine Bondi Beach successful Sydney connected December 14, 2025. (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)

"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."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted a missive helium sent to Albanese earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile Albanese declared his enactment for a Palestinian state.

"Your telephone for a Palestinian authorities pours substance connected the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred present stalking your streets. Antisemitism is simply a cancer. It spreads erstwhile leaders enactment silent; it retreats erstwhile leaders act. I telephone upon you to regenerate weakness with action, appeasement with resolve," Netanyahu read.

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"Instead, Prime Minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with much appeasement. Your authorities did thing to halt the dispersed of antisemitism successful Australia. You did thing to curb the crab cells that were increasing wrong your country. You took nary action. You fto the illness dispersed and the effect is the horrific attacks connected Jews we saw today," Netanyahu said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar besides released uncommonly stark statements pursuing Sunday's shooting, which killed astatine slightest 11 radical and hospitalized 29. 

"Time and again we called connected the Australian authorities to instrumentality enactment and combat against the tremendous question of antisemitism that is plaguing Australian society," Herzog said successful a connection connected societal media, posting an representation of a supplication shawl stained successful blood.

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Saar added that the Australian authorities had ignored "countless informing signs" and called connected leaders to "come to their senses."

Fox News' Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.