Combating anti-semitism

Jewish people around Australia have suffered a rising trend of rising antisemitism since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 2023, so what can be done to arrest it?

Why don’t Jews feel safe?

Jewish organisations have criticised Foreign Minister Penny Wong over her latest comments on the Israel-Gaza conflict, while Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has said Jewish Australians “have never felt less safe”.

Why antisemitism shifted left

Mass demonstrations against Israel are motivated by political ideology as well as ethnic heritage, with a broad swathe of ‘progressives’ on the left in the USA, Australia and other western nations spouting the poisonous anti-semetic tropes which were once the preserve of the far-right.