Australian PM Anthony Albanese – sadly not cut from the same cloth as the UN’s Francesca Albanese – has announced that “Islamic State [ISIS] ideology” was behind the murderous 14 December 2025 shooting attack at Bondi Beach near Sydney.

Albanese said:

It would appear that this was motivated by Islamic State ideology…The ideology that has been around for more than a decade that led to this ideology of hate, and in this case, a preparedness to engage in mass murder.

According to media reports, explosives and ‘home-made ISIS flags’ were found in the car of the father and son perpetrators. This, along with the instant assumptions of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, a wide array of Israel lobbyists and much of the Western ‘mainstream’ media, has been used to justify a series of evidently coordinated attacks on the anti-genocide protest movement (not called that by its critics, of course), as well as on the Australian and other governments for not repressing that movement enough and for recognising a Palestinian state.

In fact, Netanyahu went so far as to claim that Australia’s recent recognition of Palestinian statehood was the reason why the attack happened. Albanese strongly rejected that claim from the butcher of Gaza.

ISIS to Bondi Beach?

However, there’s a wider context here which is being missed. The only presence of ISIS in Palestine is allied to and funded by Israel. The criminal Abu Shabab gang, which has strong ISIS links, has been armed, equipped and paid by Israel throughout the genocide and was working with the Israel-US forces that ran the fake ‘aid’ stations. These sham aid stations were used to steal food from those who were lucky enough to get some. This collaboration is not a secret: Netanyahu openly admitted it to the Hebrew-language Israeli media; the gang’s leader also admitted it, leading his family to disown him and call for him to be killed. Before he was killed this month in an attack by Hamas, he and his men were seen relaxing, armed, next to Israeli troops.

Netanyahu panicking

Inevitably, as well as blaming Palestinians and their supporters for the Bondi beach murders, Netanyahu and his PR machine are blaming Iran. The Sunni Islamic State and Shia Iran would never cooperate, but this is neither allowed to interfere with the propaganda narrative nor queried by ‘mainstream’ media interviewers.

The fact that Ahmad al Ahmad, the hero who disarmed one attacker and was shot and wounded by the other, is a Muslim from Idlib in Syria took some of the wind from the sails of the immediate attempt to weaponise the Bondi attack against Muslims in general and Palestinians and their supporters in particular. But the Israel lobby is pressing on with its propaganda campaign regardless.

Real journalists would be demanding an explanation from the various propaganda mouthpieces as to why they are using the attack against the pro-Palestine movement when the only ISIS in Palestine works for the Israeli government, and against Iran when the perpetrators allegedly held an ideology that detests Iran viscerally and implacably.

Tragically, as so often, there is little real journalism among the ‘MSM’ – especially when it comes to Israel.

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