Bondi Beach shooting What it says about the terror threat moving forward

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Bondi Beach shooting: What it says about the terror threat moving forward

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alt="People stand in front floral tributes left at the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 18, 2025, to honour victims of the shooting that took place there on December 14. The attack at Bondi Beach on December 14 was one of the deadliest in Australian history. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)"/>

The attackers’ anti-Semitic motives and suspected influence by ISIS ideology have renewed concerns about terrorist violence.

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Kalicharan Veera Singam

Terrorism

As many look forward to celebrating the year-end holiday, the festive season also brings with it a heightened terrorism threat. The

Dec 14 mass shooting at Bondi Beach

was carried out by a father-son duo, a stark reminder that the terrorism threat is ever present and can manifest in unexpected ways.

The

two gunmen

targeted a crowd of more than 1,000 people gathered on the famed Sydney beach to celebrate the start of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah and

killed at least 16 and injured dozens

. It’s the worst terrorist violence in Australia in decades.

The attackers’ anti-Semitic motives and

suspected influence by ISIS ideology

have renewed concerns about terrorist violence and challenged assumptions about the nature of the terrorist threat in Australia, the region and beyond.

The onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2022, generated a wave of radicalisation cases around the world, Singapore included.

A key security concern for counterterrorism authorities worldwide has been the impact of the Gaza war on their domestic security – specifically, whether it would spawn large-scale terrorist violence and intercommunal tensions.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL),a New York-based civil rights organisation, found that anti-Semitic incidents in the US reached an all-time high in

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