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By Joe Kelly
(December 17, 2025 / The Australian)
America’s pro-Israel voices sound a warning: Australia’s recognition of Palestine and tolerance of ‘globalize the Intifada’ chants have led to bloodshed at Bondi Beach.
America’s oldest pro-Israel group says Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state “only encourages more terrorism and more hatred against Jews,” and is urging Anthony Albanese to give a major speech condemning pro-Palestine rallies where protesters supported a global Intifada.
National President of the Zionist Organization of America, Mort Klein, told The Australian that – following the Bondi Beach massacre targeting the Jewish community – the Albanese government needed to get tougher on Imams promoting antisemitism and do more to counter Islamic extremism.
“We need major speeches by the head of Australia, by Donald Trump, by other world leaders and Muslim leaders condemning the rallies and demonstrations where they called for globalizing the Intifada, for murdering every Jew, for calling for gassing the Jews, for calling for ‘from the river to the sea’,” he said.
Mr. Klein said the recognition of a Palestinian state had sent a message to radical Islamists that “terrorism pays.” He assumed that nations like Australia had taken this step because they were “trying to appease their own Muslim populations in their countries, I don’t know - but it was certainly a serious mistake.”
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