Unidentified individuals scrawled antisemitic slogans at the restroom of a McDonald’s restaurant on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, near where 15 people were killed last month during an attack on a Chanukah event, a local Jewish group said on Wednesday.
The perpetrators used a black marker to write “f**k Israel” and “Jews rape kids” on the door of the restroom, footage uploaded by the Australian Jewish Association to X showed.
Between Dec. 1, 2024 and Dec. 1, 2025, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) documented 1,654 antisemitic incidents in Australia. This tally did not include the Bondi Beach massacre, which happened on Dec. 15, or its aftermath. The tally published by ECAJ was 19% lower than the one in the corresponding period the previous year.
Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, last week apologized to Jewish Australians, saying, “I am profoundly sorry that we could not protect your loved ones from this evil.”
Israel’s government and many Australian Jews have accused Albanese and his Labor-led government of letting antisemitism flourish by not siding with Israel and criticizing its war against Hamas after Oct. 7, 2023. Albanese’s critics have also said that authorities under his government did too little to identify threats, monitor and intervene against them.
