Overview
- Rachel Khawaja posted screenshots showing abusive messages directed at the couple’s young daughters following the Bondi Beach attack.
- She said the family has long received such messages but that the volume and intensity have worsened in the past week.
- Several comments invoked anti-Muslim slurs and told the family to “go back to Pakistan,” targeting Khawaja’s background despite his lack of any connection to the incident.
- Usman Khawaja publicly expressed heartbreak over the attack and voiced support for the Jewish community in a social media statement.
- Reports identify the alleged attackers as Naveed Akram and his father, Sajid Akram, with authorities treating the Bondi Beach violence as a deadly terror-linked incident.