Letter from Avi Benlolo, Founder and CEO, Abraham Global Peace Initiative (AGPI), to PM Carney re conditions in Canada for a Bondi like attack, December 15, 2025

December 15, 2025 

The Right Honourable Mark Carney, MP 

Prime Minister of Canada 

Dear Prime Minister Carney, 

This letter is a follow-up to my correspondence of May 29, 2025, which remains unanswered. I write again in pain and urgency following the horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach in Australia—an attack that could just as easily have occurred here in Canada. 

The conditions that enabled that violence already exist on our streets: radicalization, extremism, and an unprecedented surge in antisemitism. Jewish communities across Canada are being targeted from coast to coast— shootings near Jewish schools, attacks on synagogues, violent demonstrations, and mobs surrounding Jewish events. 

All the ingredients for such an attack already exist in Canada. It is no longer a question of if a devastating attack against the Jewish community will occur, but when. 

I implore your office to set up a meeting with me so you can understand what is happening in real time on our streets. There are men and women—and even children—dressed in full military fatigues. They wear keffiyas over their faces, the same symbols used by Hamas, ISIS, and Al-Qaida, to conceal their identities and terrorize the public. They shout death threats at Jewish people—and at others who simply happen to be walking by. They block roads and sidewalks, disrupt entire neighbourhoods, and operate with an alarming sense of impunity.  

This is no longer protest. It is intimidation. It is radicalization in plain sight. 

In my letter to you on May 29, 2025, I called for Canada to urgently establish a special Homeland Security Task Force, dedicated exclusively to identifying, monitoring, and disrupting homegrown terror threats before they escalate. Has this been done? 

While Bill C-9 is a positive step which I have supported publicly, it addresses the aftermath of hate—it does not prevent an attack. Legislation alone will not stop radicalized actors already mobilizing on our streets. Prevention requires intelligence coordination, proactive disruption, and visible deterrence. Without this, Canada remains dangerously exposed. 

Compounding this danger are current government policies that send a deeply troubling message to extremists. Continued funding of UNRWA, repeated public denunciations of Israel, and steps toward recognizing a Palestinian state—in the aftermath of October 7 and amid an explosion of antisemitic violence—are interpreted by radicals as moral and political validation. To those already inclined toward violence, these policies signal that the government is behind them. This perception is profoundly dangerous.  

I implore you to reconsider and retract these policies, or at minimum to immediately reassess them through the lens of domestic security and public safety. No government action should embolden those who threaten violence against Canadian citizens—especially when Jewish communities are already under siege. 

The lesson from Bondi is unmistakable: hatred does not remain rhetorical. When incitement is tolerated, it metastasizes into violence. When government response is limited to condemnatory tweets and symbolic gestures, lives are placed at risk. Lighting Chanukah candles is not enough. Statements of concern are not enough. 

Canada must act before it experiences its own Bondi moment. 

I am under no illusion that you will necessarily heed this warning. However, knowing that letters such as this are archived and preserved for history to judge, I write it with that responsibility in mind—so that the warning was given, the signs were evident, and the consequences foreseeable. 

The protection of Jewish communities and institutions must be treated as a matter of homeland security. This is not only a Jewish issue—it is a Canadian issue. When hatred is allowed to flourish against one community, it eventually consumes the democratic fabric of the entire country. 

Prime Minister Carney, you can initiate meaningful change. While we may not agree on every issue, I trust we are aligned on one fundamental principle: the safety and security of Canadian citizens, including the Jewish community, must never be negotiable. 

I remain available to meet with you at anytime, anywhere. 

Respectfully, 

Avi Abraham Benlolo 

Chairman, Founder and CEO 

The Abraham Global Peace Initiative 

www.agpiworld.com 

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