Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a blistering indictment of the Australian government on Sunday, directly blaming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s policies for the unchecked spread of antisemitism that culminated in the deadly terror attack on Jews in Sydney.
Speaking at a government meeting in Dimona, Netanyahu said he had personally warned Albanese months ago that Australia was on a dangerous trajectory. That warning, he said, was ignored.
“On August 17, about four months ago, I sent Prime Minister Albanese a letter in which I gave him warning that the Australian government’s policy was promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia,” Netanyahu said. “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
“Antisemitism is a cancer. It spreads when leaders stay silent; it retreats when leaders act,” he said. “I called upon you to replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve.”
Instead, Netanyahu charged, the Australian government responded with inaction.
“You replaced weakness with weakness and appeasement with more appeasement,” he said. “Your government did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia. You did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country. You took no action. You let the disease spread — and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today.”
The prime minister noted that while a civilian intervened to stop one of the attackers, that heroism underscored the absence of decisive government action.
“We saw an action of a brave man — turns out a Muslim brave man, and I salute him — that stopped one of these terrorists from killing innocent Jews,” Netanyahu said. “But it requires the action of your government, which you are not taking.”
“History will not forgive hesitation and weakness,” he said. “It will honor action and strength.”
Expanding beyond Australia, Netanyahu framed the attack as part of a broader assault on Western civilization, arguing that Jews are targeted not only for who they are, but for what they represent.
“They’re not only trying to annihilate us,” he said. “They attack us because they attack the West.”
He pointed to the killings of American personnel in Syria, including two U.S. soldiers and an American interpreter on Saturday, as evidence of a shared battlefield.
“Killed because they represent our common culture,” Netanyahu said.
Quoting remarks by U.S. Secretary of War Peter Hegseth, Netanyahu aligned Israel’s response with Washington’s stated doctrine of deterrence.
“If you target Americans anywhere in the world, you will spend the rest of your brief anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you and ruthlessly kill you,” Netanyahu quoted Hegseth as saying.
Netanyahu said Israel’s policy is identical.
“Those who target Israelis, target our soldiers, try to kill them or try to hurt them and wound them — we take action,” he said. “They will spend the rest of their brief anxious lives knowing that Israel will hunt them, find them and ruthlessly dispose of them.”
He said that doctrine applies universally.
“That is American policy. This is Israel’s policy,” Netanyahu said. “It’s our policy in Gaza, in Lebanon, anywhere around us. We do not sit by and let these killers kill us.”
Netanyahu concluded by warning Western governments that failing to confront antisemitism and terror decisively would not contain the threat.
“The disease spreads,” he said, “and it will consume you as well.”
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This heretic is propagandizing, misusing this tragedy to bolster Zionism. Since the advent of Zionism over a century ago, the level of antisemitism in the world has been unprecedented.
If that heretic actually cared to help Jews then he would announce to the world that his “State” is Zionist, not Jewish, and that Jews are not responsible for anything his “State” does. That would “lower the flame” by 99%.