Overview
- Australian officials say a father and his adult son carried out the Bondi Beach attack, with the father killed at the scene and the son shot by police and hospitalized.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the shooting antisemitic terrorism, with at least 15 people killed and dozens wounded, including a Muslim bystander, Ahmed al‑Ahmed, who helped subdue a suspect and may lose an arm.
- Zohran Mamdani condemned the massacre as “a vile act of antisemitic terror” and pledged to protect Jewish New Yorkers, and he visited the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens to pay respects to the victims.
- Deborah Lipstadt, Rabbi David Wolpe, and outgoing Mayor Eric Adams criticized Mamdani’s past refusal to denounce the slogan “globalize the intifada,” with Adams calling the Sydney attack its “actual application.”
- NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the massacre as part of a wider assault on Jewish life and announced heightened security at Jewish institutions, while Australian authorities continue multi‑agency investigations and the government proposed tougher gun laws.