Slain rabbi’s warning to Australian PM gains urgency after terror attack

A pal of Rabbi Eli Schlanger stated warnings about rising anti-Semitism in Australia went unaddressed for years earlier than he was tragically killed in Sunday’s terror assault throughout a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Seashore.

“The writing was actually written on the partitions. It was on the partitions of my cousin’s college, it was on the partitions in Bondi Junction, it was on the partitions of a number of synagogues, and the warnings went unheeded,” Jewish Israeli advocate Mor Greenberg stated Monday on “Fox & Associates.”

Police stated a father and son had been behind the mass capturing that killed a minimum of 16 folks, together with one of many gunmen, and hospitalized 40 folks throughout Sydney’s annual ‘Chanukah by the Sea’ occasion.

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A menorah is projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera Home after a capturing throughout a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Seashore in Sydney, Australia, on December 15, 2025. (Hollie Adams/Reuters)

A letter Schlanger wrote to the Australian prime minister imploring him “to not betray the Jewish folks” is attracting renewed consideration after the assault.

Co-host Brian Kilmeade learn an excerpt from Schlanger’s Sept. 21 letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, by which the rabbi stated the chief had “a chance to be on the facet of fact and justice.”

Greenberg stated Schlanger was “extraordinarily annoyed,” and that he was not alone.

“Sooner or later it will get irritating and also you say, ‘What number of instances do I’ve to do that?’ However once I awakened and noticed Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s face, and it was somebody I knew personally, all of it got here even nearer,” she stated.

“The Australian authorities has rewarded the terrorists. They’ve rewarded Hamas with a Palestinian state. What do you suppose occurs once you reward terror? It simply breeds extra terror.”

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Kilmeade then performed a clip by which Albanians insisted his authorities has taken anti-Semitism critically. Greenberg pushed again.

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“Completely not. I can let you know that my household and my pals there are afraid. They really feel the necessity to conceal their Judaism. This can be a Western nation. It is so laborious to imagine,” she stated. “And that is what they’re telling me. They cannot imagine the state of affairs they’re going through. They cannot imagine the dearth of motion.”

“Everybody looks like this authorities has failed them. This was a second the place they may have actually stepped up and stated, ‘We are going to assist the Jewish neighborhood.’ And I do not suppose they’ve taken a step towards that.”

Emergency employees transport an individual on a stretcher after a capturing at Bondi Seashore in Sydney, Sunday, December 14, 2025. (Mark Baker/AP Picture)