Bondi Beach terror attack: A day of shame for the West
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney, where two gunmen killed at least 15 people, has been called the worst atrocity against Jews outside of Israel since Oct 7.
The harrowing event has sparked immediate political debate, with Tony Abbott, the former Australian prime minister, calling it a “day of shame” for the country. Chris Minns, the New South Wales premier, has announced a “comprehensive investigation” into the rise of antisemitism.
Camilla and Tim are joined by Lord Wolfson to share his personal reaction to the attack as a Jewish man and its impact on his community as he says Jews like him have been warning about an attack like this for years.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:07.0 | The horrific attack at Bondi Beach was carried out by a father and son who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State. |
| 0:17.0 | But what role has the West played in normalising anti-Semitic hate? We speak to one of the UK's most |
| 0:23.6 | prominent Jews, Shadow Attorney General David Wolfson. Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:29.0 | And me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:46.1 | Camilla at least 60. Comilarately 16 people are dead after the attacks on Sunday at Bondi Beach. |
| 0:53.9 | The killers have been named as Sajid Akram 50, and this is an astonishing detail, his son, Navid 24. |
| 0:56.2 | The older man died at the scene while his son is currently in a critical condition in hospital. |
| 1:02.1 | They clearly targeted a Jewish Hanukkah event on the beach. |
| 1:07.7 | And the victims included 10-year-old girl called Matilda, a British-born rabbi, a retired |
| 1:12.6 | police officer and a Holocaust survivor. So we know now that two Islamic State flags were found |
| 1:19.7 | in the Bondi Beach gunman's car. A senior official has confirmed that with Australia's ABC News. |
| 1:26.9 | A flag could be seen on the bonnet of the car |
| 1:29.0 | in footage from the scene. There were some reports of perhaps IEDs, explosive devices in the cars. |
| 1:36.3 | They remain unconfirmed. But we knew pretty quickly, didn't we, with the press conference that |
| 1:40.6 | was held in Sydney on Sunday night that it was a terror-related |
| 1:45.4 | offence. What I found particularly sinister about it as the news was unfolding yesterday as I was |
| 1:51.8 | at G.B. News. So I had planned to do an entire show interviewing guests on various different |
| 1:57.5 | domestic political related matters. And you had to tear all that up in an instant. |
| 2:02.3 | Just tore that all up because the news was emerging at around 9 o'clock and it became pretty |
| 2:07.0 | apparent that the horror was on such a scale that we would just have to turn my program |
| 2:10.8 | into a rolling news program. |
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