Australia: Leftist novelist dismisses Bondi Beach Islamist massacre as anti-Semitic attack, blames ‘Israel lobby’

Australia: Leftist novelist dismisses Bondi Beach Islamist massacre as anti-Semitic attack, blames ‘Israel lobby’

Award-winning Australian novelist Richard Flanagan has claimed that the deadly Islamist terrorist attack at Bondi Beach last year, in which Jewish Australians attending a Hanukkah celebration were targeted, was not an anti-Semitic attack. Speaking at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney on 28 August, the leftist novelist argued that the massacre should not be portrayed as evidence of rising anti-Semitic hatred in Australia and instead accus…