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Shock and grief matched by anger after antisemitic attack in Australia

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The massacre at a Hanukkah gathering at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach killed 15 people this weekend. Two gunmen opened fire on celebrations for the first night of the Jewish Festival of Lights. Australian officials quickly labeled the assault an antisemitic act of terrorism. As Geoff Bennett reports, shock and grief were matched by anger and urgent questions. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Now to the massacre at a Hanukkah gathering at Sydney's iconic Bondi beach.

0:05.0

Fifteen people were killed and one of two gunmen shot dead after a hail of gunfire tore apart celebrations for the first night of the Jewish Festival of Lights.

0:14.0

Australian officials quickly labeled the assault an anti-Semitic act of terrorism.

0:18.0

Today, shock and grief were matched by anger and urgent questions.

0:26.6

Eyewitness video captures the moment two armed men opened fire at a Hanukkah gathering on Sydney's iconic

0:32.6

Bondi Beach. Confusion, panic, the sound of celebration giving way to terror.

0:39.3

Families running for their lives, a festival of light darkened by violence.

0:43.3

And then I heard like a shot, like boom, like three, four, five shot.

0:49.3

I thought probably it's like a fire, fire rock.

0:55.4

This Israeli tourist visiting Australia was filming the celebration when the gunfire erupted.

1:00.8

And then like I just won and one and one, I didn't think anything.

1:05.8

And then when I just stop after I feel like it's a safe place, I stopped and I just I was just thinking like wow

1:14.6

this is the feel like being the same like what happened in the 7th October in Nova

1:23.1

Festival people are celebrating enjoy moment, enjoy the holiday.

1:28.6

That sense of shock and grief hung heavy today as members of Sydney's Jewish community

1:33.0

gathered to mark the second night of Hanukkah.

1:36.0

A ritual usually centered on joy and continuity carried out this time in grief and mourning.

1:42.3

Today, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it a horrific

1:45.7

act of anti-Semitism.

1:47.0

Tragically, in 2025, we live in a dangerous time. And these two evil people have engaged in this act

1:59.0

of anti-Semitism, driven by ideology.

2:03.6

But the attack has also sharpened political tensions.

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