Anti-Jewish Graffiti Discovered Near Site of Bondi Beach Massacre

A Jewish community leader says the incident is proof that anti-Semitism efforts are not working.

Tributes are seen on the overpass, where the attackers carried out their act of terror, in memory of the victims of the Dec. 14 Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney, Australia on Jan. 22, 2026. Steven Markham / AFP via Getty Images

Just six weeks after 15 festival goers were murdered while celebrating the Jewish festival of Hannukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, locals have found anti-Jewish graffiti on bathroom stalls.

A video online shows graffiti on the walls of the Bondi Beach McDonald’s just metres from the massacre site sometime between Jan. 27 and 28.

The Epoch Times contacted the New South Wales Police Force for comment but they were unable to provide details on whether an investigation was underway.

Australian Jewish Association President Robert Gregory said current attempts to curb anti-Semitism were not working.

“It is disgusting to think that anyone could spread such hate and so close the site of the Bondi massacre,” he told The Epoch Times.

“This is a reminder that anti-Semitism continues to surge in Australia.”

Anti-Semitic Discourse Surges 400 Percent: Israeli Government

The incident comes just days after the Israeli Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism released its 2025 report findings on anti-Semitism globally.

The report listed Australia as one of the worst nations for anti-Semitism per capita, particularly online with incidents soaring 400 percent since the Bondi Beach terror attack.

“The sustained spike suggests the attack acted as a catalyst for extremist amplification, misinformation, and opportunistic hate speech,” according to the report.

A “heat map” of Australia in the report also found New South Wales and Victoria topping the list of incidents.

Other states like Queensland and Western Australia remained moderate, while South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania had the lowest reported incidents.

In a statement issued on Jan. 27 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australia stood in opposition to anti-Semitism.

“More than eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we repeat the vow: Never again,” he said in the statement.

“We repeat it because Jewish people should never have had to know such pain again.

“Yet, as we have been so horrifically reminded by the 7th of October atrocity carried out by Hamas and last month’s terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, the darkness that underwrote the Holocaust is a darkness that still dwells in too many hearts.”