Australia’s soaring levels of anti-Jewish violence and vandalism have revealed how a country’s foreign policy impacts its internal affairs and how quickly an issue can become a crisis if the response of government is inadequate or ineffective.
Since the Hamas invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Australia’s Jewish community has been confronted with a government marching away from its traditional support for U.S. policies on Israel as well as an increasingly turbulent domestic situation. Australia’s national representative body for the Jewish community, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, recorded a 738% increase in antisemitic incidents in the two months after October 7, one of the sharpest increases anywhere in the world.
AUSTRALIA’S JEWISH COMMUNITY ALARMED BY RISING ANTISEMITISM: ‘FEAR AND ANXIETY’
Hundreds of Jewish artists, authors and other creatives were doxxed following the leak of a private Whatsapp group, allegedly by a New York Times journalist, which led to death threats, loss of employment and harassment …