{"id":347968,"date":"2025-12-14T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347968\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:30:09","slug":"sydney-jewish-chanukah-by-the-sea-celebration-attacked-multiple-people-killed-injured-shooters-yet-to-be-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347968\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Jewish Chanukah by the Sea celebration attacked; multiple people killed, injured; shooters yet to be identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FBI is assisting Australian authorities with their investigation into Sunday\u2019s Bondi Beach terror attack as US leaders join the global condemnation of the Hanukkah massacre.<\/p>\n

FBI director Kash Patel said he had spoken with the agency\u2019s Australian counterparts and the bureau was \u201cproviding the requested assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n

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FBI Director Kash Patel speaks with reporters during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)Credit: AP<\/p>\n

New York City-mayor elect Zohran Mamdani said murdered rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was among 12 people confirmed dead so far, had deep ties to the Brooklyn Crown Heights, a neighbourhood in the New York borough of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cAnother Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too.\u201d <\/p>\n

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson said the Bondi attack was \u201canother wake-up call\u201d about the dangers posed by antisemitism.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Credit: Bloomberg<\/p>\n

\u201cJewish people must be free to practice their faith openly and without fear. Antisemitism must be confronted and defeated wherever it appears,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US strongly condemned the attack and was praying for the victims, the Jewish community and the Australian people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAntisemitism has no place in this world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

US Republican Senator Ted Cruz said it was \u201can act of barbaric, antisemitic terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the outrageous, but all-too-predictable result of far too many leaders around the world tolerating and even fomenting hatred of Jews, instead of countering the evil of antisemitism with moral clarity and unrelenting condemnation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI is assisting Australian authorities with their investigation into Sunday\u2019s Bondi Beach terror attack as US leaders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-347968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}