{"id":351634,"date":"2026-01-19T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=351634"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:32:51","slug":"greens-senator-links-bondi-attack-tributes-to-broader-racism-fight-draws-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=351634","title":{"rendered":"Greens Senator Links Bondi Attack Tributes to Broader Racism Fight, Draws Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During Monday&#8217;s Senate tributes to the December 14, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=329538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Over 10 dead and scores injured in Shooting Massacre in Sydney\">Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack<\/a>\u2014where two Islamic State-inspired gunmen killed 15 and wounded over 40\u2014Greens Senator Nick McKim stated that Jewish Australians won&#8217;t be safe from antisemitism until Muslim Australians are safe from Islamophobia, and no one will be until Australia reconciles with its colonial history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks, made as parliament debated condolences and security measures like hate speech laws, prompted sharp online criticism from conservatives who called them tone-deaf amid grief over the antisemitic violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While leaders like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=anthony-albanese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Albanese\">Prime Minister Albanese<\/a> vowed to fight antisemitism and praised a Muslim bystander&#8217;s heroism, McKim&#8217;s words highlighted tensions in addressing hate after Australia&#8217;s deadliest terror incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remarks, made as parliament debated condolences and security measures like hate speech laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":329541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[19003,19289],"class_list":["post-351634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-bondi-beach-massacre","tag-senator-nick-mckim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351637,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351634\/revisions\/351637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}