Meghan Markle channels “Holocaust Chic” in meet and greet with Bondi massacre hero Jimmy McIntosh

Yes, the very same surfer who found love amid Islamic terror attack on Hanukkah festival…

You’ll recall the gorgeous story, told on these pages one month back, where two first responders to the Islamic terror attack at Bond Beach, old folks and kids gunned down by a couple of Indian migrants with shotguns and a dislike for Hebrews, fell in love and are now set to be married, likely this November. 

Jimmy McIntosh 46, little brother of Stab founder Sam McIntosh, and Lexi Edmondson, 35, were virtual strangers despite living close by in Bondi and having crossed paths during a bronze medallion lifesaving course at Bondi Surf Club years earlier.

In the December 14 twilight, they had planned a casual drink before heading to the Bondi Surf Club’s Christmas party. Lexi, a physio fresh from completing her masters, was in high spirits. As they neared the club right near the bridge where the attack began they heard the Islamist shotguns and witnessed the horror unfolding at the Jewish community’s Hanukkah event.

Drawing on their recent lifesaving training, they rushed into Archer Park once the shooting paused to aid the wounded.

James recalled in The Australian: “I knew I had to run in, because I knew what to do. And there’s a part of you that wants to do it, as horrible as it is, it’s like ‘now is my time’.”

Now, the pair have become part of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Australian visit, a ninety-six hour quasi-royal tour which took in a chillun’s hozzy, a gal’s refuge, included a $3200 per person wellness retreat with Megan and, this is where our hero comes in, a meet and-greet with survivors and first responders from December’s Islamist attack. 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived at the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club, where they spoke with volunteer lifeguards who rushed to the scene, Jimmy and Lexi at the vanguard, of course, community leaders and survivors including Jessica Chapnik Khan, who shielded her kid from Naveed and Sajid Akram’s bullets with her own body, and Elon Zizer, shot six times while protecting his children.

Markle bravely fought back tears as she listened and embraced Ms. Chapnik Khan, whose daughter is close in age to the Sussexes’ own Lilibet. The couple later walked barefoot along the sand, paying tribute to the victims of the assault on the Jewish community.

Yet the appearance drew scrutiny over Ms. Markle’s choice of attire: a blue-and-white vertically striped shirt from Australian brand Matteau, knotted at the waist and paired with white jeans, and which looked, through squinted eyes at least, a little like the striped uniforms of Nazi concentration camps, which became one of the most visceral symbols of Holocaust dehumanization. 

Pretty funny, it’s fair to say, that not one damn person in her entourage, and that includes Nathan Florence lookalike husband Harry, who once got in a little strife for his Nazi fancy dress costume twenty years ago, pulled Markle aside and said, hon, listen, the blue striped shirt, it ain’t a great look.

But then, the holocaust is a Jewish myth, no?