Researching antisemitism

Combating antisemitism requires understanding how it operates, why it persists over time and across populations, and how it can be addressed but a lack of specific research is hampering attempts to combat it effectively.

Testimony as a target

The hostility and hatred expressed towards Australia’s Jewish community in recent years has been extended to Bondi royal commission witnesses who have suffered antisemitic abuse after testifying.

Protecting universities from antisemitism

Evidence suggests offers a range of useful clues about which approaches are most likely to help and where universities should focus their efforts to rid university campuses of rampant antisemitism.

It’s not that difficult guys

Australian universities will have to adopt their own definitions of racism next year but why is it so hard for unis to agree on a definition of ‘antisemitism’?

Asking the difficult questions

If we want to honour the Bondi victims and heroes alike, and reduce the likelihood of recurrence, we should ask not whether someone was known to ASIO but perhaps how hatred has been allowed to harden into something that made violence seem possible at all.

Implementing Segal’s plan

The government is under pressure to do more to address antisemitism in Australia in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, but it is still to respond to the report by antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal released back in July.

Australia let its Jewish citizens down

Anthony Albanese cut a lonely political figure laying a small bunch of flowers at Bondi on Monday morning, as the question confronted the nation: could more have been done by leaders, and the community, to prevent this tragedy?

Ruptured

Ruptured is a timely and powerful anthology that explores the fractured experiences of 36 Jewish women in Australia in the aftermath of the October 7 2023 Hamas attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza.

Segal’s antisemitism plan goes awry

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may be rueing what seemed a good idea at the time – the appointment of a special envoy to combat antisemitism and another to combat Islamophobia.

Will Segal’s plan reduce antisemitism?

The Albanese government appointed Jillian Segal as the nation’s first special envoy for combating antisemitism and her plan has just been released.

The plan has now been released. Let’s unpack it.

Defining antisemitism

Australian Jews have suffered a sharp increase in antisemitic attacks and vilification since Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, unfortunately, Australia’s universities have struggled to even define antisemitism, let alone banish it from their campuses.

Confronting anti-semitic terrorism in Australia

The spate of attacks on Jewish people and properties in Australian cities, and the threat of an even more serious terrorist atrocity in the future, demands a firm and coordinated response from the Australian people, as well as its government, police and security services.