AUSTRALIA: MUSLIM MOB SEVERELY INJURES FIVE JEWS IN UNPROVOKED ANTISEMITIC ATTACK

UPDATE October 28: Amid ongoing and suspicious mystery about the identities of the attackers, this story in Israel Hayom says that they were not Muslims. Apparently media fastidiousness about identifying perpetrators from groups that enjoy politically correct victim status is now extending to other groups as well.

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Wherever Muslim immigration increases, so do attacks on Jews. Everywhere.

Islamic antisemitism -- it's in the quran.

Australia: Muslim mob severely injures five Jews in unprovoked anti-Semitic attack

(thanks to Jihadwatch)

True to form, the mainstream media doesn't mention the identity of the perpetrators, but that in itself is a clue as to who they were: if the attackers had been neo-Nazis, the Herald would have had no trouble saying that. Only when it comes to Muslims do "brawls" and "bombings" and "violence" just happen by themselves, with no clear perp. Also, the mention of the facts that the attack was "racially motivated" and in a "multicultural area" makes clear the identity of these "youths" (a common mainstream media term for violent young Muslims in any case).

But why the coverup? Why must we read tea leaves when it comes to Muslim violence? The mainstream media is doing a grave disservice to the public by reporting stories in this way, rendering them ignorant and complacent in the face of a real threat.

"Five people hospitalised after brawl in Bondi," by Sally Willoughby for the Sydney Morning Herald, October 26 (thanks to Raul):

Two men remain in hospital with serious injuries after an alleged anti-Semitic attack near Bondi Beach on Saturday.

Five people were injured suffering a fractured cheekbone, broken nose, concussion, lacerations and bruising when they were set upon by eight youths on Blair Street.

St Vincent's Hospital spokesman and member of the Bondi Jewish community David Faktor said the victims told him the attack was unprovoked and racially motivated.

He said the family was returning from a Jewish Sabbath dinner and did not know their attackers or do anything to incite the violence.

''Any kind of serious unprovoked attack is of great concern but the fact it was racially motivated is all the more concerning,'' Mr Faktor said.

''It is extremely shocking that an attack like this could happen in Australia let alone in Bondi being such a multicultural area.''

Mr Faktor said the victims were wearing skullcaps and told him the attack felt like it went for about 15 minutes.

Police said four men, aged 27 to 66, and a 62-year-old woman were walking along Blair Street when a group of eight males started hurling abuse and assaulting them at 12.30am on Saturday.

Police said the melee continued along Glenayr Avenue before police arrived and the attackers fled.

Police have arrested two teenage boys, 17, and a 23-year-old man.

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Anti-Semitism knows no borders

This past August, while on a lecture tour in Australia, I was asked to deliver a sermon about the Torah portion Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) at a small, tranquil synagogue in the Sydney suburb where I was staying, Bondi Beach. I walked to the synagogue with my kippah-wearing host, Michael Mizrahi, along with his wife and enchanting small children. It was a pleasant stroll in lovely weather.

Bondi Beach is a unique place. Its beach is the most popular and glittering of cosmopolitan Sydney's many waterfronts. The hordes of young people who come to Australia to work over the summers dream of being able to live in the neighborhood, which is not cheap. Jews, mostly from Hungary, settled there after World War II, and amid the kosher butcher shops, synagogues, delicatessens and boutique specializing in Israeli wines one also finds many night clubs, bars and coffee shops catering to the surfers and blonde women who populate Sydney's beaches. How natural that the Chabad-Lubavitch movement chose to locate a center there as well. In my many travels over the last 30 years, rarely have I seen a place where salted fish and surfers coexist so happily.

Having spent many years abroad as an Israeli journalist and diplomat, I often encountered anti-Semitic incidents and covered them. It's hard to expect a Jew approaching the sixth decade of his life to remain innocent. But there was something innocent and fascinating, almost otherworldly, in that family Shabbat morning stroll, wearing kippot, as if we were in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.

"There is no danger?" I asked Michael as we passed a crowded cafe.

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"Look around you," my host said. "This is a place where Jews and non-Jews have lived together for years. A kippah is part of the scenery."

Except that reality has a habit of intruding. Despite the great distance, Australia is aware of what is happening in the rest of the world. Perhaps this is why, at the entrance to a larger synagogue near the one I visited, a security guard was stationed. A Jew must always fear the worst, so much more so if he arrived here from Hungary, Germany or Poland. To tell you the truth, after the pleasant morning walk, the guard struck me as nothing more than a decoration.

And perhaps because of those pleasant memories, I was stunned by what happened over the weekend in that same tranquil and enchanting place, Bondi Beach, stronghold of Sydney Jews. A group of worshippers returning from the evening prayer service was attacked by a gang of Australian youth, some no more than 18 years old, right in front of one of the popular hotels. This didn't happen in some alley but on a major street, in a country where people fear getting into trouble with the police, who are reputed to be tough. Some of the people from the synagogue ended up in the hospital with serious injuries. As if we were living in Europe in the 1930s.

When Shabbat was over I spoke with friends who live nearby. One of them told me the authorities had labeled the crime an act of anti-Semitism but he thought it was hooliganism by drunk youths, of whom there is no shortage in that neighborhood at night. Except that most of my friends, including those in Melbourne and Perth, on Australia's western coast, were shocked by the incident.

I was curious as to the attackers' identities. Were they Muslims who lived in several Sydney neighborhoods I had visited, importing the Middle East conflict Down Under, as they have done in Europe? Not at all. They were local youth, I was told. And this may be the most dangerous thing. While we fear that Muslim communities around the world will import the conflict to their new countries, the radical Right thrives and renews its anti-Semitic doctrines.

My lectures in Australia were meant to persuade the community to come to Israel's aid. Once again it was proven, for the who-knows-what time, that helping Israel is helping Jews as a whole.

How ironic that just Sunday night, the first Jewish students house was dedicated in Berlin? In part, the students' house will be dedicated to pro-Israel activity to counter the anti-Israeli current in the city, as I was told by those promoting the project. How fortunate that there is an even more thriving project known as the state of Israel. If the wonderful and warm Australian Jewish community invited me next year to speak on precisely the same Torah portion, I would merely quote the first verse, Deuteronomy 26:1: "Ki tavo el haaretz" ("When you come to the land.")