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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., agreed on the condemnation of antisemitism in a uncommon second of shared ideology and reward throughout an interview Tuesday on “Hannity.”
“I simply need to commend John Fetterman for the braveness he is served… he is proven extraordinary braveness calling out antisemitism in his personal social gathering. And he is achieved so at appreciable value to himself,” Sen. Cruz instructed host Sean Hannity.
The senators’ bipartisan dialogue comes within the aftermath of the Dec. 14 Bondi Beach mass taking pictures that claimed 15 lives.
Authorities say the taking pictures broke out as roughly 1,000 individuals gathered at Australia’s hottest seashore to have a good time the primary evening of Hanukkah.
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Police cordon off an space at Bondi Beach after a terrorist assault at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 14, 2025. (Mark Baker/AP Photo)
“What we noticed on Bondi Beach was the most recent manifestation of this evil, and this evil is spreading. This hatred of Israel. This hatred of Jews,” Cruz mentioned.
“They [Jews] cannot even have a good time, , one in all their holidays with out getting gunned down and mowed and focused,” Fetterman added.
What Fetterman referred to as a “horrific bloodbath” additionally left 42 hospitalized, together with two law enforcement officials.
One of the deceased victims was a Holocaust survivor, in keeping with stories.
The Democratic lawmaker careworn that antisemitism is a matter his social gathering should “confront,” and Cruz agreed, sharing fierce criticisms of the lethal Bondi assault.
“It is grotesque, it’s evil, and it’s harmful, and we have to get up and entrance it,” the Texas senator mentioned.
Sen. Ted Cruz speaks throughout a roundtable dialogue on the U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
New South Wales police say the 2 suspects, a father and son, had been taken into custody. The father, 50, has died; his 24-year-old son stays hospitalized with accidents.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claimed the assault was motivated by “Islamic State ideology.”
Sen. Cruz condemned the “radical” Islamic state.
“Radical Islamic terrorism, they’re at battle with us,” he instructed Fox News. “This is their goal. There’s proof that this father-son duo of murderers had been [sic] affiliated with ISIS.”
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Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim man, is credited with disarming one of many two gunmen. The heroic act was captured in a viral video exhibiting him wrestle the firearm out of the attacker’s palms.
Ahmed has acquired an outpouring of reward for his life-saving actions. Albanese referred to as him an “Australian hero.”
Israeli officers have sharply chastised the Australian authorities for failing to safeguard Jewish communities amid what they deem as a surge in antisemitic incidents.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responding to the taking pictures on X, revealed he wrote a letter to Albanese 4 months in the past.
“I instructed him: ‘Your coverage encourages terrorism. It encourages antisemitism,’” Netanyahu wrote to X.
As their dialog broadened past the Bondi assault, Cruz and Fetterman additionally expressed settlement with President Donald Trump’s destruction of Iranian nuclear websites.
“The single most necessary overseas coverage choice President Trump has made within the second time period was the choice to bomb the Iranian nuclear amenities,” Cruz argued.
“When the Ayatollah chants dying to America, I imagine him,” the Republican senator added. “The president as commander-in-chief has an obligation to maintain the American individuals secure and permitting the Ayatollah to accumulate a nuclear weapon that he may use to homicide 1000’s and even hundreds of thousands of Americans was an unacceptable danger.”
Sen. John Fetterman participates in a debate on June 2, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Sen. Fetterman referred to as President Trump’s bombing an “completely” acceptable transfer.
“I imagine I used to be the one Democrat that was really calling for and totally supported bombing the Iranian nuclear facility,” Fetterman added.
The dialogue turned to home considerations, together with rising antisemitic incidents within the United States.
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Fetterman criticized former President Joe Biden’s border insurance policies as a “catastrophe,” calling for elevated vetting of immigrants.
“It’s additionally cheap to usher in people who have the sorts of values which are suitable with our values,” Fetterman defined. “That isn’t about free speech. That’s about bringing on the people who need to assimilate, they usually need to construct their lives in our nation, not changing into a part of a harmful drive in our nation.”
