"They can call off the search for the 2026 Australian of the Year award. We have him already. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed."

"Every January, on Australia Day, someone is named Australian of the Year. They can call off the search for the 2026 award. We have him already. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed. He’s 43, a father of two and a shopkeeper. And today he stunned the world with an act of staggering heroism: he single-handedly tackled and disarmed one of the fascist filth who carried out the massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach in Sydney. ...

"There were other heroes, too. We’ve seen footage of Aussies tending to the wounded, breathing life back into the injured. ... Let us hope these Australians are commended and rewarded for taking such a valiant stand against the evil that visited the Jews of Sydney today. These men and women speak to the true spirit of Australia. ...

"These heroes also remind us that terrorists can be defeated. They can be disarmed. They can be stripped of their power, just like that.

"It won’t always be possible, of course. But where it is, we should strike. Too much official guidance tells us to scarper. ... too many people look the other way when tyranny strikes – or worse, stand and film it. ...

"Bravery finds a way, though. The human instinct to help is not so easily crushed. One thinks of the men who hurled beer glasses and chairs at the three radical Islamists who went on a stabbing spree in London Bridge in 2017. Or Ignacio Echeverría, the Spanish national who used his skateboard to beat one of those London Bridge terrorists (sadly, he was subsequently killed). And now Ahmed al Ahmed, the forty-something conqueror of a modern-day Nazi. ...

["T]he violent loathing that shook Sydney today did not emerge in a vacuum. .. If more of us had ‘had a go’ earlier, perhaps we could have seen off, or at least tamed, this gravest menace in Western society.

"Don’t wait until it turns violent. ‘Have a go’ now. If you see someone carrying a placard calling Jews Nazis, get in their face. If you see a keffiyeh mob outside a synagogue, confront them. If you see a frothing Islamist or leftist harassing a Jew in public, put yourself between the scumbag and his victim. Don’t run, hide and tell – stand, fight and tell them to fuck off. Enough is enough. Get out there."

~ Brendan O'Neill from his post 'Like the heroes of Bondi, we should all be tackling anti-Semites'