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(en) France, UCL Press Release - Antisemitic Attack in Australia: Let's Stand Together Against All Forms of Racism! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Date Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:08:58 +0200


Following the horrific antisemitic crime that recently struck Australia, the Libertarian Communist Union expresses its deepest solidarity with the victims and their families. Faced with all forms of racism, we affirm the need to build a radical and united anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist front. ---- This Sunday, December 14th, Australia was plunged into mourning by a terrible antisemitic crime on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Two armed assailants opened fire on a Hanukkah ceremony, leaving 16 dead at the time of writing, and around fifty wounded. While reliable information about the attackers remains scarce, strong suspicions point to a link with the Islamic State. The Libertarian Communist Union expresses its full solidarity with the victims of these despicable acts, as well as with their families, and commends the heroic act of Ahmed al Ahmed, a fruit vendor present on the day of the attack who risked his life to disarm one of the assailants with his bare hands. These attacks are a stark reminder that antisemitism still plagues our societies, including in its most violent forms.

Throughout the world, capitalism and imperialism fuel the rise of antisemitism. By destabilizing Iraq and Syria through their criminal interventions, and by allowing the Turkish state to wage war against the Kurdish people, NATO imperialists have created the chaos that has enabled the Islamic State to flourish. Furthermore, by using the "protection of Jews" as a pretext to support Zionist crimes, the State of Israel and its supporters fuel resentment and hostility against Jews worldwide. Finally, by fueling and financing the rise of the far right and nationalism, capitalists also continue to fan the flames of antisemitism.

The usual vultures of the right and far right have already begun their morbid campaign of exploitation, unsurprisingly projecting their nauseating "clash of civilizations" onto this attack. We must stand against these fascist rhetoric and reiterate the reality: whether it dons the guise of the National Rally or the Islamic State, the far right is the primary purveyor of antisemitic ideas in the world.

The Israeli state, for its part, seized the opportunity to shift the blame for these acts onto the timid recognitions of the State of Palestine, notably by Australia. In France, Minister Aurore Bergé accused the pro-Palestinian movement of bearing responsibility for the Sydney attack, an abject and shameful manipulation. These attempts at co-opting the situation are odious: one will search in vain for the slightest connection between the Islamic State organization and solidarity with Palestine.

What we need is clarity, not confusion, and a clear, radical, and unified rejection of all forms of hatred. In this regard, we can only point to the responsibilities and double standards of our imperialist states, which today rightly condemn anti-Semitic crimes, but remain silent on-or even support-those currently taking place in Palestine. While Israel continues to murder in Gaza since the "ceasefire," where are the outrages, the public statements, the thoughts for the victims?

We therefore expect nothing from states or bourgeois democracies: we must build grassroots popular solidarity ourselves, through an anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist front. We call on everyone to join all initiatives and commemorations that clearly aim to combat all forms of racism. Faced with the widespread descent into open barbarity, only a break with the imperialist order can prevent further massacres.

The Libertarian Communist Union, December 19, 2025.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Attaque-antisemite-en-Australie-faisons-front-contre-tous-les-racismes
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