On October 9, 2023'two days after the Hamas attacks on Israeli villages adjacent to Gaza'protesters gathered in front of the Sydney Opera House to chant angrily about the Jews. The chant sounded to many like Gas the Jews. But Australian authorities reviewed footage, and at a surreal press conference, they announced that while some members of the crowd were shouting 'Fuck the Jews,' the crowd's unison chant was 'Where's the Jews'' Australia has strict rules about hate speech, but merely inquiring about where to find Jews is not a crime, so the police closed the case. Australian Jews, needless to say, were not reassured. In Sydney, the answer to Where's the Jews' is Bondi, the area known simultaneously as a center of bikini culture and sun worship, and as a hub of Australian Orthodox Jewry. Yesterday two men, a father and son, emerged from their hatchback with rifles and fired at a crowd of Jews celebrating Hanukkah there. Some 15 are dead, and dozens have been hospitalized. The death...
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