Sunday, December 14, 2025

(Updated:) THE FOX NEWS SITE HAS AN NBA PLAYER'S TAKE ON THE SYDNEY SHOOTING, BUT NOT THE NAME OF THE HERO WHO DISARMED A GUNMAN

The lead story at the Fox News website right now is the story that leads the news all over the world: the shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, which killed at least 12 people. Authorities are treating the massacre as an act of anti-Semitic terrorism.

There was a moment of heroism in the midst of all this carnage: an unarmed bystander rushed one of the shooters and disarmed him.


The man who did this -- and who took gunfire in the process -- has been identified as a Muslim immigrant named Ahmed al Ahmed, the owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland. You'll find his name in stories from The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, and even Murdoch-owned outlets such as News.com.au and the New York Post. His identity has been known for several hours. This was posted five hours ago:



But so far at least, his name is nowhere to be found on the Fox News site. It appears nowhere in Fox's main story on the massacre. Fox has posted video of the takedown, but the hero isn't named.

Fox did, however, manage to rush this story onto the front page:
NBA champion calls on officials to 'publicly hang' Australian terrorists after attack at Hanukkah event

NBA champion Andrew Bogut reacted to the terror attack in Australia that left at least a dozen dead and nearly 30 others injured on Sunday at a Hanukkah celebration.

Bogut suggested that X was being censored in the Bondi Beach area of Sydney. He also called for the hanging of the shooters if they were still alive.

"X being heavily sensored (sic) amidst this shooting in Bondi, Australia," Bogut wrote on X. "Have to have the main stream media version events rather than live feeds just in case the truth gets out without any spin.

"RIP to the people caught up in this BS. Publicly hang the shooters if still alive."

Bogut added, "Thinking you can vote your way out of this mess is beyond naive......."
Priorities....

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UPDATE: Fox wises up -- the lead headline on the Fox site is now
WATCH: Muslim man risks life to disarm suspect during deadly terror attack at Hanukkah event
I've been poking around the right-o-sphere. This man is being praised even at some of the most Islamophobic sites. I guess it took a while to decide it was safe to praise a Muslim, but Fox finally came around.

Now let's see if Breitbart can do the same. One of its front-page headlines is "WATCH: HERO DISARMS JIHADIST," but the linked story includes just a clip with footage of the takedown, and no identification of the man responsible. A separate story, "Watch: Heroic Bystander Tackles, Disarms Terrorist Gunman at Bondi Beach," has been up for hours, but hasn't been updated with the hero's name.

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UPDATE: I'm complaining about Fox and Breitbart, but Kevin Kruse notes that The New York Times isn't identifying the hero in Sydney either:

This is the entire piece, last updated a half hour ago. They never give the name of the bystander, Ahmed el Ahmed, and they never note that he’s Muslim. Other outlets have done so, but not the NYT.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) December 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM

(Ironically, Bret Stephens names Ahmed al-Ahmed in the first paragraph of an otherwise awful column titled "Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like," which flatly blames Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and pro-Palestinian demonstrators worldwide for the massacre.)

Meanwhile, Elon Musk's Grok goes one step further, citing a fake story that identifies the hero as a white IT guy named Edward Crabtree.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

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— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Posted by Steve M. at 11:46 AM

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