At least 15 people are dead after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi beach. Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese has called the deadly shooting an “act of terror and antisemitism.”
The victims of the Sydney shooting range in age from 10 to 87, according to the Associated Press. About 40 others sustained injuries during the attack.
The shooting is reported to have been carried out by a father and son. Police shot and killed the father, and the son, 24, was wounded before being arrested.
The Sunday shooting is the deadliest antisemitic attack carried out on civilians since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which left 1,200 people dead.
Antisemitic attacks have increased since Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement. Between Oct. 7, 2023 and Oct. 1, 2025, there were 13,339 recorded antisemitic incidents around the world, the group reports.
After the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the world saw the “largest surge in antisemitism in modern history—and that surge has not slowed. It has deepened, spread, and been excused,” Sacha Roytman, CEO of Combat Antisemitism Movement, says.
The majority of the over 13,000 antisemitic incidents in the past two years have not been deadly, but at least half a dozen have resulted in lives lost.
Manchester Synagogue Attack, October 2025
Jewish worshippers were gathered at a Manchester synagogue for Yom Kippur on Oct. 2 when Jihad al-Shamie, 35, launched the attack by driving his car at security personal. Shamie stabbed a man to death outside the synagogue, and police accidentally shot another man as law enforcement responded to the attack.
Police shot and killed the attacker who had moved to Britain from Syria as a teen.
Jerusalem Bus Stop Shooting, September 2025
Six people were killed at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Sept. 8 in what authorities described as a “terrorist attack.”
Two Palestinian gunmen reportedly carried out the attack that left another 21 people injured, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Boulder, Colorado Attack, June 2025
On June 1, Mohamed Soliman used a makeshift flamethrower and incendiary device as he shouted, “Free Palestine,” and attacked a group of people in Boulder, Colorado who were marching in solidarity with the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza at the time.
About a dozen people were injured and one 82-year-old woman, Karen Diamond, later died from her injuries.
Israeli Embassy Staff Killed, May 2025
A gunman opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21 taking the lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a soon-to-be-engaged couple who worked at the Israeli Embassy.
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, entered the museum following the shooting and shouted, “Free, free Palestine” as authorities arrested him.
Protestor Confrontation in Ventura, California, November 2023
Loay Alnaji, a pro-Palestine protester, is accused of hitting pro-Israel protester Paul Kessler with a megaphone in November 2023, causing Kessler, 69, to fall back and hit his dead on the pavement. Kessler died in the hospital the next day.
Kessler had an Israeli flag in his hand and was near a pro-Palestine demonstration in Ventura, California when the confrontation began. Alnaji has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and battery causing serious bodily injury.
