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Police clashed with anti-Israel demonstrators successful Sydney during protests against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s sojourn to Australia, prompting nationalist leaders to impulse calm and telephone for demonstrations to stay peaceful.
Police said 27 radical were arrested, including 10 for allegedly assaulting officers, aft unit broke retired Monday evening erstwhile authorities moved to wide thousands of protesters gathered adjacent Sydney’s Town Hall.
The unrest unfolded arsenic Herzog arrived successful Australia for a sojourn centered connected solidarity with the Jewish assemblage aft the Dec. 14 panic attack astatine a Hanukkah lawsuit successful Bondi Beach that killed 15 people.
Herzog traveled to Bondi during the trip, wherever helium met bereaved families and participated successful memorial events honoring the victims. In a station connected X, helium wrote, "Together with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the community’s leader, Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, bereaved families, and members of the Jewish community, we agreed successful representation of the 15 victims of the Bondi panic attacks. The terrorists sought to instill fearfulness successful the Jewish people—and we respond with renewed Jewish pride, by choosing beingness and hope."
Herzog besides warned of rising antisemitism during the visit, calling it a planetary exigency and defending Israel’s actions successful Gaza erstwhile asked astir the protests.
Demonstrations opposing Israel’s warfare successful Gaza and Herzog’s beingness erupted crossed Australia, with the largest confrontation unfolding successful Sydney. Authorities imposed restrictions connected protestation routes and utilized capsicum spray to disperse crowds aft tensions escalated.
Police said officers were met with unit and acted to support order, portion protesters and immoderate politicians accused authorities of excessive force.
Talking to Sky News Australia, erstwhile Australian Jewish Association president David Adler called the unit "a disgraceful display," noting that Australia has a strategy of instrumentality and bid and that a tribunal determination establishing an exclusion portion for the protests was ignored by the "radical activists," which "left the constabulary with an intolerable situation."
Commenting connected Sydney constabulary actions against the agitators, Adler said determination was immoderate "rejoicing successful our assemblage to yet spot a spot of pushback from the New South Wales police, because, for 2 years and a half, almost, there's been a deficiency of instrumentality enforcement erstwhile it comes to the incitement, the antisemitism and we've seen the emboldenment and the dreadful incidents which person occurred close crossed the state culminating (on Dec. 14) with the massacre astatine Bondi Beach. So possibly we've seen a small spot of a flicker of pushback successful instrumentality enforcement, which we surely welcome," helium said.
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Andrew Wallace, a subordinate of parliament said, "Australians who unrecorded successful a ideology person a close to protestation peacefully and lawfully," Wallace told Sky News, "What we saw past nighttime was not peaceful, and it surely was not successful accordance with directions fixed by police."
Australian leaders called for restraint and warned against importing overseas struggle into home streets.
A timeline compiled by the American Jewish Committee notes that the December Bondi Beach onslaught came aft a sustained emergence successful anti-Jewish threats and unit crossed Australia, including vandalism of synagogues and Jewish schools, arson attacks and nationalist harassment since Oct. 2023. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry documented much than 1,600 anti-Jewish incidents betwixt Oct. 2024 and Sept. 2025, pursuing much than 2,000 incidents the erstwhile year.
Israeli leaders person pointed to the Bondi onslaught arsenic grounds of increasing risks facing Jewish communities overseas and person criticized Australian authorities for failing to forestall the violent attack.
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