‘We warned them’ Jewish leader says after Bondi Beach terror attack that kills 15

In the aftermath of a deadly panic onslaught astatine a Hanukkah solemnisation connected Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Dionne Taylor, a elder fig successful the community, says the astir achy world is that the unit did not travel without warning.

"We person been wholly fto down by our government," Taylor, the communications manager of the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council, told Fox News Digital successful a Zoom interview. "We warned them that this snowball effect was going to happen, and it was lone a substance of clip earlier idiosyncratic got killed."

The shooting took spot Sunday evening during a nationalist Hanukkah lawsuit astatine Bondi Beach, sidesplitting astatine slightest 15 radical and wounding dozens, according to Reuters and the Associated Press. Australian authorities person described the onslaught arsenic an enactment of coercion targeting the Jewish community. 

Police said the suspected attackers were a begetter and his big son. The begetter was killed astatine the scene, portion the lad was changeable by constabulary and taken to a infirmary successful captious condition.

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A subordinate of the Jewish assemblage reacts arsenic helium walks with constabulary toward the country of a shooting astatine Bondi Beach successful Sydney connected Dec. 14, 2025. (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)

Taylor, who lives a 10-minute locomotion from Bondi Beach, said the onslaught was not an isolated enactment of unit but the culmination of years of escalating antisemitism that authorities failed to confront.

"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.

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A subordinate of the nationalist leaves the country with her child, who is covered successful an exigency blanket, aft a shooting astatine Bondi Beach connected Dec. 14, 2025 successful Sydney, Australia. Two gunmen dressed successful achromatic fired respective shots astatine Sydney's world-famous Bondi Beach, causing astatine slightest 10 injuries and 3 deaths, and mounting disconnected wide panic connected a Sunday evening. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)

Instead, Taylor said, the Jewish assemblage received what she described arsenic bare reassurances. "We person these one-line messages that there’s ‘no spot for antisemitism successful Australia,’" she said. "But they’re bare promises. There’s been nary action."

Taylor said the nonaccomplishment to enactment has had broader consequences for Australian nine arsenic a whole.

"There’s been a fig of situations that person led to the implicit erosion of societal cohesion present successful Australia, a relaxed migration policy, letting successful excessively galore refugees from the incorrect places, a emergence of extremist Islamism and a fundamentally slick authorities that truly hasn’t assisted oregon supported the Jewish assemblage and different communities," Taylor said. "So this attack, portion it was a targeted onslaught connected the Jewish community, is really a targeted onslaught crossed the full of Australia."

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People locomotion arsenic constabulary officers basal defender connected the thoroughfare pursuing a shooting incidental astatine Bondi Beach, successful Sydney, Australia, Dec. 14, 2025.  (Jeremy Piper/AAP via Reuters)

Bondi Beach, she noted, is 1 of the country’s astir iconic and densely populated nationalist spaces, drafting tourists and locals from astir the world. "People who were sitting connected the formation past nighttime were not conscionable determination for the Hanukkah festival," Taylor said. "Yes, the radical who were changeable were participants of the festival, but determination are hundreds of thousands of radical sitting connected that formation connected a Sunday afternoon. It’s summer. It’s precisely what’s described arsenic the blessed spot successful the world."

"But it’s not anymore," she added. "We’re broken. Our state is ruined."

Among the victims, Taylor said, was a 10-year-old miss who aboriginal died of her wounds and a Holocaust subsister who had sought refuge successful Australia decades earlier.

"Australia is the location to [one of] the largest Holocaust subsister community," she said. "They came present seeking bid and safety, a amended life. And present 1 of them has fallen unfortunate to coercion here."

The unit besides struck adjacent to location for Taylor’s organization. She said Arsen Ostrovsky, the recently appointed caput of AIJAC’s Sydney office, was changeable astatine the festival and remains hospitalized.

"He moved backmost to Australia with his woman and children conscionable 2 weeks ago," Taylor said. "He survived reporting aft Oct. 7 successful Israel, and present he’s go a unfortunate of that aforesaid bloodshed here."

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Emergency workers transport a idiosyncratic connected a stretcher aft a reported shooting astatine Bondi Beach successful Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Mark Baker/AP Photo)

Australian leaders person condemned the onslaught and pledged to reappraisal information and counterterrorism measures. Police beingness has been accrued astir synagogues and Jewish institutions and Hanukkah events crossed the state person been canceled.

Taylor said the trauma has forced achy conversations successful her ain location astir whether Australia remains a harmless spot to rise a Jewish family.

"After Oct. 7, galore radical made plans to marque aliyah to Israel," she said. "We discussed it arsenic a family. We decided our beingness was amended here. And present we’re asking ourselves, however is our beingness amended here?"

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Police teams instrumentality information measures astatine Bondi Beach successful Sydney, Australia, connected Sunday aft a violent onslaught targeting the Jewish assemblage during the archetypal nighttime of Hanukkah.  ( Claudio Galdames A/Anadolu via Getty Images)

She said enactment from non-Jewish Australians has been overwhelming, with radical lining up to donate humor and reaching retired to connection help. Still, she warned that the authorities indispensable enactment decisively.

"I would anticipation that this is simply a large wake-up telephone for our existent government," Taylor said. "This is an onslaught connected the full of Australia. So they’ve mislaid 15 of their citizens successful 1 time and they’re powerless to halt it. So if they can’t marque changes and improvements to not lone support the Jewish community, but to support the broader Australian assemblage from terrorism, past they request to bash that. And I judge they cognize they request to bash it. I conscionable don’t deliberation they cognize how."