{"id":310001,"date":"2025-12-22T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=310001"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:38:31","slug":"exploiting-a-massacre-to-cover-up-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/exploiting-a-massacre-to-cover-up-a-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploiting a Massacre to Cover Up a Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anti-genocide protesters, who marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in August, are among those being blamed for the horrific terrorist attack on Sunday 14 Dec 2025. In the front row, left to right: Mary Kostakidis, Gabriel Shipton and Julian Assange.\u00a0 (Consortium News)<\/p><\/div>\n

Zionists have wasted little time blaming anti-genocide activists for the horrendous attack on innocent people in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, in order to obscure Israel\u2019s ongoing crimes in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

15 Dec 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The 15 innocent victims killed in Sunday\u2019s terrorist attack on a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia are being exploited by extreme Zionists in a bid to distract from Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Their memories are being used by the likes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli as well as Australian officials, sections of the media and members of the public.<\/p>\n

Instead of putting the blame on the only known perpetrators police have identified so far \u2014 the father and son shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram \u2014 Zionist extremists are implicating innocent citizens who have dared protest Israeli atrocities.<\/p>\n

Addressing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Netanyahu said: \u201cI called upon you to replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve. Instead, prime minister, you replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Albanese \u201cdid nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia, you did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said he wrote to Albanese earlier this year because his \u201ccall for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to Netanyahu, Albanese vowed<\/a> to \u201ceradicate\u201d hatred of Jews. \u201cWe will do whatever is necessary to stamp out antisemitism,\u201d he said on Monday. \u201cIt is a scourge and we will eradicate it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

But how exactly can a government end a vile belief that some people hold? It cannot be legislated or beaten out of them. And how might the anti-semitism of other Australians be responsible for the anti-semitism or other motive of the shooters, about which police have so far said nothing?<\/p>\n

The answer is that Netanyahu doesn\u2019t want Albanese to \u201cend\u201d anti-semitism \u2014 which he can\u2019t \u2014 but to end the protests against Netanyahu\u2019s genocidal rampage in Gaza, which have been falsely labeled anti-semitic.<\/p>\n