Hanukkah, Bondi Beach and Australia
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The Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre and the Islamist blind spot the West refuses to confront
Bondi Beach should have been a place of light. On that warm December evening, Jews gathered along Sydney's shoreline for Chanukah by the Sea, a public Hanukkah celebration marked by prayer, music, and remembrance.
Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan reports from Bondi Beach after new police documents detail the Sydney Hanukkah terror attack, including pipe bombs and an ISIS flag, as anger grows over Australia’s response to rising antisemitism.
Hundreds had gathered for an event at Bondi Beach called Chanukah by the Sea, which was celebrating the start of the Hanukkah Jewish festival.
The two men believed to carry out the attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach that killed 15 people had two pipe bombs and a tennis-ball bomb.
As part of the event, a giant basketball menorah was lit during the game by the 14-year-old nephew of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the Sydney massacre.
Court documents reveal what police say were the movements and motivation of Sajid and Naveed Akram in the months, days and minutes before the attack.
Chani Schlanger Drizin, 54, sat shiva this week for her baby brother, Rabbi Eli Schlanger, in her home in Crown Heights, which has been a hotbed of antisemitic attacks for years — and again