Canadian author warns Bondi lessons being forgotten

Canadian political strategist and author Warren Kinsella has warned Australians not to assume the Bondi Chanukah attack will not be repeated, after visiting the site of the December 14 massacre at Archer Park this week.

Kinsella, who writes for the Toronto Sun, was in Australia to speak at a counterterrorism conference. He was taken around the Chanukah terror attack site on Thursday by Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) head of Sydney office Arsen Ostrovsky, who was injured in the shooting.

“For anybody seeing it, [it] just looks like a park. Kids’ playground, you get a barbecue, you get picnic tables, but it’s a place where terrible things happen,” Kinsella told The AJN. “I fear that the importance and the lessons of what happened there get forgotten and have gotten forgotten.”

Kinsella drew a parallel with the shooting outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in his home town of Belleville, Ontario, on the eve of Yom Kippur on September 20.

“Bullets were going through the stained glass window … and all of those people were saved because a Belleville police officer, Constable Smith, was there. He was shot. He almost died,” he said. “What happened at Bondi, it’s happening in other places, unexpected places, unexpected days, and that is a consequence, in part, of this global propaganda war.”