The man accused of opening fire at a Jewish celebration on Bondi Beach faces 59 charges after 15 people were killed in the attack.
Naveed Akram, who allegedly shot at a crowd of hundreds alongside his father – Sajid Akram – on Sunday, spent two days in a coma after being shot by police.
The 24-year-old is expected to face a Bail Division Local Court Seven, Sydney, from his hospital bed on Wednesday afternoon.
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h/t MP
The Liberal government concealed a deal with alleged “raging antisemite” Laith Marouf, two Conservative MPs say after they learned about it through a written inquiry.
Marouf received $122,661 as part of a Canadian Heritage program to deliver anti-racism lectures. According to Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), where Marouf was a senior consultant who led seminars, three consultative events by the centre took place in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax in 2022.
A man, described in the German national press only as a 21-year-old Central Asian, was arrested in Magdeburg on Friday to prevent him from carrying out attacks against large crowds.
The timing and location are significant. Just a year ago, a Saudi psychiatrist and refugee who was known to German police drove a car into a crowded Magdeburg Christmas market during the city’s festivities, killing six people. It is for this reason that this year’s market quietly opened under tight security.
There was an air of inevitability as news spread of the massacre at the Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach yesterday. A friend in Sydney told me that almost everyone had been expecting something like this. Counter-terrorism analysts I spoke to yesterday and local media coverage said the same thing.
There is little mystery about the motive here. Sajid and Naveed Akram, the father and son who killed 15 people — including a Holocaust survivor, two rabbis, and a ten-year-old girl — had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (Isis), according to Australian security sources. Naveed, in particular, had been investigated six years ago due to his ties to an Isis cell.
What a mess. This little phrase seems unequal to the task of describing the situation Britain finds itself in after decades of multiculturalism and liberalism.
In a – perhaps surprising – spirit of compassion and generosity, I find myself feeling for some of the liberals who are now regularly being mugged at scale by reality. There is very little time to draw breath nowadays, to reset and forget, between what are still described as ‘incidents’. The Bondi Beach massacre followed on from the news of the two Afghan asylum seekers jailed for raping a girl of 15, which followed the news of the migrant hotel worker stabbed to death with a screwdriver, which followed the attack on a Manchester synagogue … all set against the continual background rumble of the rape gangs.
They gathered to celebrate Hannukah, the Jewish festival of light—a family event in a park by the beach on a Sunday.
The exact details of what occurred remain murky. What’s known is that two men, Naveed Akram and his father Sajid Akram, took out guns and began shooting at the Jewish families. At least 15 are dead, and 42 have been hospitalized.
Remember. This was Sydney on October 8, 2023. pic.twitter.com/49WYk7TPoA
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) December 14, 2025
Just like Canada.
A Christmas ham has been sent to the Bonnyrigg home of the alleged Bondi terrorists.
The half-leg of ham was among numerous Woolworths bags of items sent to the south-west Sydney home.
Pork and pork products are considered “haram” in Islam and expressly forbidden for Muslims to consume.
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA—The Israeli embassy in Ottawa says a group that included six Canadian MPs was denied entry into the occupied West Bank on Tuesday because of an alleged financial link to an aid organization Israel considers a “terror entity.”
In a statement to the Star, Israeli embassy spokesperson Yifah Mivtach Greenvald said the group that organized the trip — Canadian Muslim Vote — receives the “vast majority” of its funding from Islamic Relief Canada, which Greenvald said is a subsidiary of Islamic Relief Worldwide, a listed terror entity in Israel.
Canada has not designated the group on its own terror list.
"CBC News has learned that a delegation of Canadian parliamentarians has been denied entry into Israel this morning after trying to enter by land from Jordan."
"While all of that is out the window now, what the group has told us is, is that they were stopped at the crossing from… pic.twitter.com/cFq5JPMqal
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) December 16, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Two gunmen – identified by authorities as a father and son – opened fire on hundreds of people marking a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 15 and leaving 27 in hospital with injuries.
The father was killed in an exchange of fire with police at the scene while the son is in hospital with critical injuries.
Among the victims of the country’s worst mass shooting in decades, which targeted Jewish people and is being treated as a terrorist incident, are a 10-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor and two rabbis.
The attackers are both said to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. Here is what we know about them.
Verena Akram, the mother of 24-year-old suspected Bondi gunman Naveed Akram, said she didn’t believe her son could be involved in the attack on Sydney’s Jewish community on Sunday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
“He doesn’t have a firearm. He doesn’t even go out. He doesn’t mix around with friends. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t go to bad places … he goes to work, he comes home, he goes to exercise and that’s it,” she claimed.
40m out, 9mm Glock.
Moving targets.
Takes down Islamist Sajid Akram, takes cover from Naveed Akrham as he shoots back..Balls of Steel by this Detective.
No body armour.
No long arm rifle.
Suit and Tie.Thank you for your service and saving more lives. pic.twitter.com/bXP0JFU41D
— Mickamious (@MickamiousG) December 15, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The writer is in Australia
MANY Britons will know of Bondi Beach. Some will know it directly, as it is a haven for visiting Brits and those who now make Australia home. Especially on Christmas Day, where there is generally much merriment. If Rudi Giuliani was America’s mayor, then Bondi is Australia’s beach.
Mulled wine and Heckler & Koch assault rifles don’t belong together, except in Christmas films like Die Hard. Festive visitors to Christmas markets in Berlin, London or Strasbourg this year will notice the pairing all the same. Concrete blocks surround fairy lights, and the scent of cloves and cinnamon wafts over armed police carrying submachine guns.
Since an Islamist drove a lorry into the Breitscheidplatz market in Berlin in December 2016, killing twelve and injuring dozens, we deck the halls with blast protection. There are still tacky wooden chalets selling sausages, but they are now often surrounded by steel posts, truck-proof planters, and one-way systems designed to stop SUVs achieving murderous velocities before hitting crash barriers.
When MP Roman Baber rose in the House of Commons on 17 November to table Bill C-257, he was not just tinkering with legal technicalities. His proposal would create a new Criminal Code offence of “wilfully promoting a terrorist activity or a terrorist group,” punishable by up to five years in prison and classified as a terrorism offence. In plain language, Parliament is being asked whether glorifying terrorism from Canadian soil should itself be treated as a terrorism crime.
Supporters, including organizations such as the Canadian Jewish Law Association and B’nai Brith Canada, say the bill fills a dangerous gap exposed by rallies and online content that appear to praise Hamas and other listed entities. Critics worry about overreach and the chilling of legitimate protest.
Curtailing speech is always a double edged sword and our history with such measures typically results in attacks on Canadian heritage and values.
