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WATCH: Jewish community leader reacts to 'another sad and tragic day' after Bondi Beach attack
Dec 15, 2025
A Jewish Community Leader has warned that their existence is "on the line" as he called on Labour to "take action" and "pick a side".Speaking to GB News following the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Australia's Bondi Beach, Levi Schapiro said that politicians "are responsible" for the increased radicalisation of the population.FULL STORY HERE.
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A friend of mine told me yesterday at the attack in Australia, there wasn't a single Israeli flag present
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It was simply a Jewish event, right? So it's important to make that distinction
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There was nothing to do with Israel there yesterday. That tells you that this is pure, old-fashioned anti-Semitism
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Nothing else, right? Post-October 7, they complained it's Israel, it's, you know, the war in Gaza and all that stuff
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But fast forward two years later, there wasn't a single Israeli flag there yesterday, yet Jewish people were still slaughtered
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So if you ask me never again, how can we say never again when it's actually happening
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How do you feel as a member of the Orthodox Jewish community
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Would you feel safe enough to walk into central London and walk close to the so-called March for Palestine, which I've witnessed
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and I've heard the vile anti-Semitic tropes being chanted? Would you feel safe
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it's i'm taking a risk i'll tell you unfortunately i speak to many people in the community
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and people in my community don't feel safe at the moment and uh all those like i said earlier
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politicians coming out and putting out those fake solidarity straight statements it it hollow it empty words you not helping us you not doing anything to help us to keep our community secure and safe And if you want us to go into
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central London or walk the streets of London, it's at your own risk sometimes. And you hear
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stories time and time again locally here in Britain where Jewish people are attacked
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viciously attacked, simply for being Jewish, right? And I go back to yesterday's tragic
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events in Australia. Those people don't want us to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah
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right? Yesterday was the first day of Hanukkah. Tonight, we're going to light the second night of
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the second candle of Hanukkah. Those people don't want us to go out there and light the second
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candle of Hanukkah. But yet, as a Jewish community, we have a certain level of strength
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in our inner hearts. We are a broken community at the moment, but there is a certain sentiment
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of strength, we come together and we support each other, we respect each other. And this
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is how we fight the evil. So tonight we are going to light a second night, the second
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candle of Hanukkah. We will do that in the face of those evil people
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But how sad Levi that there will have to be some form of police presence nearby No absolutely And as someone who involved in the community I can tell you that I been involved with the local policing as well I had contact with them yesterday our local policing neighbourhood sergeants who did inform us they be they step up the
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policing patrols in the community. There'll be a policing presence in the community. And
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let me just tell you, when I grew up in the community, Hanukkah was a time of happiness
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Traditionally, we go around children in the community to different parties, Hanukkah parties, the synagogues, different events in the community
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And for children to grow up in fear, knowing that they step out of their house and they see visible police officers, security officers, security guards, what does that tell them
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What does that tell them? Are they safe? Do they have a future? But that's the climate we're living in
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So what can Western governments do? Of course, increased security is a good thing
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but as you say, even that itself adds an element of fear. What can governments do to actually stop the threat to Jews in the first place
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It all boils down, the buck stops at government, at politicians. Nobody gets born radicalised, right
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We are now growing up a whole generation of radical young people who are going out to society and becoming radicalized And they use those missions they have to attack Jewish people
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Now, politicians are responsible for this. So politicians need to take a more clearer stance
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You have to pick a side. Are you there for the Jewish community? Are you there for humankind, for decency
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Or are you there just to watch your votes? and your election, right
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Because ultimately, you have to make the decisions. Politicians have the power to influence
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and to set the right code for the country. And when they go out there and they allow chants
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of globalizing the inter-father and all those radical extremist chants that we've heard in the last two years
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on the streets here in Britain, on your doorsteps, right? Then, by default, what they're saying is
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it's okay, you could say that. And then what they do is they put out a little statement
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We are so shocked and we're so sorry for the Jewish community. It's meaningless
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The Jewish people are not silly. We're not stupid. We know it's empty. It's empty words
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It means nothing. The only way to show us that you really care for our community
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and for communities, I would say, is by taking action, not words
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