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Five nights of antisemitism: Is this most dangerous Hanukkah in recent years?

Hanukkah is arguably the best-known of all the Jewish holidays, despite not being one of the high holidays. This year, however, Hanukkah has been in the news for more harrowing reasons.

Rabbi Levi Wolff lights a menorah at Bondi Pavilion to honour the victims of a shooting during a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, December 15, 2025.
Author, journalist and commentator Ben Shapiro speaks at a Buckley Institute event, How October 7 Broke America's College Campuses, at Yale University on October 7, 2024.

Ben Shapiro denounces Tucker Carlson at Heritage, urges policing of conservative movement

Demonstrators hold a banner during the 'Nationwide March for Palestine', after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect, in Sydney, Australia, October 12, 2025.

Bondi's father-son terror duo likely attended infamous 'Gas the Jews' protest in Sydney

Samuel Williams, a student at Oxford University's Balliol College, was suspended by the university over the chant "put the Zios in the ground."

'Put the Zios in the ground’: Oxford University student charged for violent chant


Australian Jewish leaders on buildup to massacre: 'Intifada was globalized and came to Bondi'

Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler said on X on Sunday that antisemitic incitement had been allowed to grow unchecked for years.

Rabbi Levi Wolff lights a menorah at Bondi Pavilion to honour the victims of a shooting during a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, December 15, 2025.

World Jewish Restitution Organization conference links age-old antisemitism to Bondi attack

Every speaker said something that linked the antisemitism of yesteryear with that of the calamity on Bondi Beach, and stressed the importance of memory.

People hold up their phones with the lights on during a vigil, following the fatal shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in Jerusalem, December 15, 2025.

Countries failed to speak with clarity about the Australia attack - analysis

The Bondi Beach attack was not confusing. It was absolutely clear that gunmen were shooting at people. And it was absolutely clear that the target was a Jewish Hanukkah event.

A menorah is projected onto the Sydney Opera House sails after a shooting during a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, December 15, 2025.

'Heartbroken by barbaric terror attack': Jewish orgs. worldwide react to Bondi Beach mass shooting

Jewish organizations worldwide denounced the Bondi Beach mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration, mourning the victims and urging stronger action against rising antisemitic violence.

People hold signs that read, "Antizionism is Bondi Beach, Anti-zionism is Jew Hate" and "Antizionism gets Jews killed" during a vigil outside the Australian Consulate on December 14, 2025 in New York City following the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Sydney.

'No middle ground' for tackling antisemitism after Bondi Beach mass shooting, deputy FM Haskel says

Haskel, who lived in Australia for six years, said that the mass shooting came after repeated warnings to Canberra about growing antisemitism in the country.

Sharren Haskel at The Jerusalem Post conference in Jerusalem, September 16, 2025.

'F*** the Jews': Gunman fires 20 bullets into Jewish family's Hanukkah-decorated home in California

According to door cam footage, the suspect shouted antisemitic slurs such as 'F*** the Jews' as he fired at the home from his car.

The California home of Jewish family stands after a suspect fired into it while yelling slurs.

Shooting at Bondi Beach is what a globalized intifada looks like - analysis

The Bondi shooting was not an isolated act of violence. It was the logical endpoint of the normalization of radicalized anti-Israel rhetoric in Australia.

A member of a jewish community reacts as he stands at the site of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. Towels, bags and baby strollers littered Sydney's Bondi Beach Sunday -- the harrowing aftermath of the country's worst mass shooting in years.

Chabad rabbi murdered in Bondi shooting 'implored' Australia's PM to not 'betray the Jewish people'

Chabad rabbi Eli Schlanger, killed in the Bondi Beach shooting, urged Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to stand with Israel in a September open letter on Facebook.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reacts as he speaks to the media during a press conference following a shooting at Bondi Beach, at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, December 14, 2025.

Mossad sent warnings to Australia about antisemitic terror attack risks

The local police commissioner denied that there was any intelligence prior to the attack, KAN noted.

New South Wales Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism Yasmin Catley, NSW Premier Chris Minns and NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon attend a press conference following a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025.

Police raid home of Pakistani Muslim man suspected of Bondi Beach terror attack - report

According to his Facebook page, viewed by the Post, Akram studied at Central Queensland University in Sydney and Hamdard University in Islamabad.

One of the suspected shooters in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, December 14, 2025.

Australia’s media downplayed antisemitism, and now look at Bondi - comment

This is not only a failure of government. It is a failure of law enforcement culture, of university leadership, of media judgment, and of national nerve.

Police officers gather at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025