Israeli flag displays at Bondi massacre memorials have exposed deep political fault lines over Zionism, antisemitism and the exploitation of public grief, writes DrEvan Jones.

AT BONDI BEACH, people and flower memorials for the14 December murdershave been festooned with Israeli flags.

Here, for example, is Opposition LeaderSussan Ley(recorded on herInstagram) hugging a woman so draped. Hoping for political mileage?

Nobody has publicly acknowledged the phenomenon and the anomaly certainly not in the media. Photos that dont lie have to be selectively interpreted.

One photo and caption is of particular interest, on theABCsite, 2 February:

A menorah stands among candles, flowers and an Australian flag at a memorial to the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack (Image viaABC News)

And the other flag, unnamed? Is this an unrecognised human form of brood parasitism (of which the cuckoo genus is the best known)? The parasite (the barbarous state of Israel) appropriates necessary support from the host (the diaspora) by such means?

Well not quite nobody. Here isMichelle Berkon, turning up at Bondi and hassled by the police. Her crime?

In her words, when asked by a reporter,Why have you turned up here wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh? Are you trying to antagonise the Jewish community?:

Quite. The presence of Israeli flags at the memorials is an outrage, an insult to the dead and to the meaning of the event.

The same Michelle Berkon writes forPearls and Irritationsand forGreen Left. The courageous Berkon deserves exposure in the mainstream media. Why doesnt she have it?

Immediately after the massacre, mass murderer Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahuaccused Prime MinisterAnthony Albanese(having previously damned Albanese for recognising a Palestinian state), this time of being complicit in the murders by not stamping out growing antisemitism in Australia.

The Vice Chancellor of La Trobe University used the Bondi attack to absolve himself over the attempted censorship of writers due to speak at Bendigo Writers Festival back in August.

Netanyahusattackwas personal:

The Israeli Ambassador reinforced Netanyahus criticism of Albanese and his government. Diplomacy, I think not. Albanese should have expelled the Ambassador long ago.

Just before Christmas, theZionist Federation of Australiatakes it upon itself toinviteIsraels President,Isaac Herzog, to Australia. Bizarrely, Albanese, under immense pressure, agrees to formalise the invitation in accordance with protocol. So a private organisation, singularly devoted to a foreign rogue power, invites that head of state to Australia and that insolence is apparently in accordance with protocol.

The ZFA describes the Australia-Israel relation as grounded in shared democratic values. The same old hoopla. Israel is not a democracy but an ethnocracy it was strategically constructed thus. How could the well-educated ZFA leadership get Israels fundamentals so wrong? How do they have the audacity to brazenly dissimulate when its intended readership knows otherwise?

The ZFAs unintelligible supporting statements incoherently and nonsensically conflate Israels sanctity and global Jewrys security. The ZFA conveniently overlooks that sanctified genocidal Israel lies behind any insecurity experienced by global Jewry.

Preceding Herzogs expected visit was advice offered by Israels Minister of Diaspora Affairs, which presumably gives him carte blanche to interfere in other countries politics.Amichai Chiklitravelled to Bondi several days after the attack.

Netanyahu has used the Bondi murders to weaponise antisemitism pressuring Australia to silence Palestine and deflect scrutiny of Israels war.

Chikli subsequentlywroteto Home Affairs MinisterTony Burkeoffering experienced assistance:

Chikli omits to mention that Israel is very well familiar with radical Islamic terrorism because it nurtured the latter for years (with Western and Turkish forces) in mutually pursuing the destruction ofBashar al-Assads Syria. The murderous long-nurtured deep racism of Israels security forces is just the mentality we need Down Under to counter those hateful Sunday marchers and the occasional anonymous figure who graffities Fuck Israel (bomb them to oblivion, torture them in high security prisons?).

Not only Chikli flew in. So also did aZAKAteam. But what is ZAKA? It operates post-disaster response teams, staffed mostly by Orthodox Jewish volunteers.

A Murdoch outletinforms usthat:

It is remarkable that someone has decided that the local sizeable Jewish community isnt competent to handle the crisis (it hasHatzolah, countless Rabbis offering spiritual solace) and bury its dead with dignity.

What has changed after the Bondi terrorist attack on Sunday 14 December?

ZAKA races around the world feeding on human calamity. One thing it doesnt do is cater to the Palestinian victims of Israels ethnic cleansing. ZAKA personnel were found fabricating stories of Hamas atrocities during7 October, presumably to enhance the organisations reputation.

More fundamentally, ZAKAs general reputation, as per the anti-Zionist websiteMondoweiss, is decidedly iffy.

This fromDecember 2023:

Just what the Sydney Jewish community needs to deal with its trauma.

The chutzpah of it all defies belief.

In short, the centre of gravity of Australian Jewry is Zionist-occupied territory. The mainstream media is wholly complicit. The political class is complicit or terrified. Organisations and people of all stripes, though the usual suspects prominent, are jumping on the bandwagon for a thoroughly diversionary royal commission centred on antisemitism. Israel is nowhere to be seen. A grand farce in the making.

Anti-Zionist Jewry, exemplified by Michelle Berkon, is the most important holdout. Can a mere semblance of sanity prevail amongst this madness?

There is one important moral to this story. The Zionists take no prisoners. Give an inch and youre gone.

Albo, take note.

DrEvan Jonesis a political economist and former academic.