Free Republic Browse · Search News/Activism Topics · Post Article Skip to comments. Benefit Concert for Bondi Beach Victims Canceled; Choir Refused to Sing Along With Jews Hotair ^ | 04/28/2026 | David Strom Posted on 04/28/2026 7:49:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind Sure, it's not antisemitism. It's a political statement against Bibi Netanyahu or something. A benefit concert for the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia has been canceled because the choir that was scheduled to sing refused to share the stage with a Jewish choir group. You can't make this up. I used to love visiting Australia. This is very sad. https://t.co/2RRrABKrF7— Thrill Science ✡️ עם ישראל חי (@ThrillScience) April 28, 2026Surprised to find an action like this from the cultural elite? I'm not. A choral concert fundraiser for the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack at a Jewish event in Sydney has been canceled after local Greek singers opposed singing alongside their Jewish counterparts in the planned joint performance.The two-hour benefit concert, titled Concert for Hope and Unity, was to feature the Australian Hellenic Choir together with the Sydney Jewish Choral Society in Sydney Town Hall on June 28, The Australian newspaper reported Monday.However, last Monday, during rehearsals, a vote was taken and over half the Hellenic choir “politically objected” to performing with their Jewish counterparts, according to the report.The Jewish choir wasn't even from Israel. Their connection to what is happening in Gaza is solely that they were Jews, and they were invited because the terrorist attack from Islamists was aimed at Jews. And the Australian Hellenic Choir couldn't be in the same room with them. Because they were Jews. In an act of breathtaking cowardice and antisemitism, a charity concert meant to support victims of the horrific Bondi Beach terror attack has been completely scrapped, because members of the Australian Hellenic Choir voted against performing alongside Jews.The “Concert for Hope and Unity” was organized to raise money for families devastated by the December 2025 antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah event in Bondi. Instead of unity, the Australian Hellenic Choir held a vote and a majority flatly refused to share the stage with the Sydney Jewish Choral Society.Their reasons? “Political objections” to Jews and pathetic claims of fearing for their own safety.Let that sink in: A concert honoring victims of a terrorist attack on Jews was derailed by people who didn’t want to stand next to Jews.The event at Sydney Town Hall has now been fully canceled. All planned charitable proceeds, meant for grieving families, including those who lost children and a Holocaust survivor, are gone.This is not “political disagreement.” This is raw, ugly antisemitism dressed up as a choir decision. Just months after Jews were slaughtered in cold blood in their own city, some in Sydney’s Greek community decided the appropriate response was to boycott other Jews trying to honor the dead.In Nigeria, there are slaughters of Christians every day by radical Islamists. A genuine, not fake, genocide is going on. It would never and should never occur to anybody that we should shun all black people because some black people in another continent were committing genocide. Not only are the accusations against Israel about the war in Gaza based on slander, but even if they were not, the connection between Australian Jews and those actions is tenuous at best. It's the same impulse that led vile protesters in New York and elsewhere to tear down posters of Israeli hostages, as if they were guilty of something or unworthy of compassion because Hamas kidnapped them. Will the members of the Hellenic Choir face consequences for their "brave" stand of refusing to be seen with Jews? Of course not, because their fans agree that Jews are evil. TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events KEYWORDS: antisemitism; bondibeach; jews; liberaltruth; sydney Navigation: use the links below to view more comments. first 1-20, 21-24 next last 1 posted on 04/28/2026 7:49:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Disgusting. Australia is dead to me. I used to think that antisemitism was an anomaly. Apparently not. 2 posted on 04/28/2026 7:52:59 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind So what was the Unity they had Hope for? Unity with the muzzies the Hope to kill them? 3 posted on 04/28/2026 8:02:19 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind It’s always the Christians and Jews they hate. The people who keep aborted babies alive to use their organs and islamic savages who cut babies from their mother’s wombs and kill them are worshipped. What does that tell you? 4 posted on 04/28/2026 8:07:25 PM PDT by doc maverick [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind 5 posted on 04/28/2026 8:08:30 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: Governor Dinwiddie Apparently, Israeli's aren't supposed to kill the muzzies that rape and murder them. 6 posted on 04/28/2026 8:11:51 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Benefit Concert for Bondi Beach Victims Canceled; Choir Refused to Sing Along With Jews What is going on with all the Jew hatred nowadays? Seems like people are coming out of the woodwork spewing nasty commentary about Jews. No doubt Iran propaganda corps is behind some of it, and I suppose Chinese and other Iranian allies as well. But we need to condemn it loudly and often whenever we see it. 7 posted on 04/28/2026 8:19:50 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Down Under has been LOST for a while. Doubtful they will ever recover. Sad. 8 posted on 04/28/2026 8:22:16 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Will Australia fall to the Muslims or Chinese first? 9 posted on 04/28/2026 8:28:24 PM PDT by alternatives? [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind What a bizarre and disgusting reason for ending something good. 10 posted on 04/28/2026 8:42:55 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Diversity is not their strungth. 11 posted on 04/28/2026 9:54:16 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind What Australia needs is another hard lockdown in the camps. Maybe Fauci can make another virus based on Koala DNA just for them. 12 posted on 04/28/2026 10:14:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party - like the love child of La Cosa Nostra and Al Qaeda ) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: DiogenesLamp We have them here on this forum. 13 posted on 04/28/2026 10:54:23 PM PDT by rxh4n1 [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind 14 posted on 04/29/2026 6:31:39 AM PDT by simpson96 [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Disappointing, but not surprising. 15 posted on 04/29/2026 8:11:33 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! ) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: DiogenesLamp Look around FR. Seems like around 25% or more of them are comfortable saying the US is being led by Israel and other anti-Semite crap. 16 posted on 04/29/2026 9:34:40 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Since the Bondi Beach victims were Jews and they were specifically attacked because they were Jews, why was this choir even there for? They had to know, yet they pulled this stunt and tried to make it about Gaza. The truth is Gazans are garbage humans that no one really gives 2 shits about unless they were payed or played by the public relations media. 17 posted on 04/29/2026 9:37:50 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: SeekAndFind Racism is a one way street. Whites hating blacks is racism. Blacks hating whites is not racism. This seems like some kind of mutation of the above. Muzzies can hate Jews and spout Death to America. But Christians who embrace Jews are Islamaphobic which in the new woke world is worse than racism. 18 posted on 04/29/2026 9:44:15 AM PDT by Biblebelter [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] To: rxh4n1 We have them here on this forum. I've seen hints of it, but i've never noticed any full bore anti-Jewish people on this forum. I would think management wouldn't tolerate it. 19 posted on 04/30/2026 7:40:24 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies] To: packrat35 Look around FR. Seems like around 25% or more of them are comfortable saying the US is being led by Israel and other anti-Semite crap. I must be on the wrong threads, because I have seen very little of that. Certainly not as many as 25% of the members. If that is so, these views should be strongly discouraged. 20 posted on 04/30/2026 7:41:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies] Navigation: use the links below to view more comments. first 1-20, 21-24 next last Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. Free Republic Browse · Search News/Activism Topics · Post Article FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794 FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson