Anti-Semitism was 'left unchecked’ in Australia after Gaza war, spy chief says

Australia spy chief says Jew-hatred was left unchecked after Gaza war began

Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked and became normalized after the outbreak of the war against Hamas in Gaza in October 2023, fueling violence against Jewish people, the country's national security and intelligence chief said on ‌Monday.The frank remarks were made during a public inquiry into last December’s Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney, the worst terrorist attack in Australian history."There is no doubt that the war in the Midd…

Australian Intelligence Chief Says Antisemitism Was ‘Normalized’ and ‘Left Unchecked’ Before Bondi Massacre

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Anti-Semitism was 'left unchecked’ in Australia after Gaza war, spy chief says

Australia’s spy chief on Monday told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting that anti-Semitism was left unchecked in the country after the start of the war in Gaza. Australian Security Intelligence Organisation head Mike Burgess added that before the attack that killed 15 people attending a Jewish Hanukkah celebration in December 2025, anti-Semitism had escalated in severity from “intimidating behaviour to direct targeting of people”.

How did antisemitism become acceptable again?

Courier-Mail – 25 May 2026   Witness after witness at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has said a version of the same thing: that, whether through intent or accident, people have taken their hatred of Israel out on Australian Jews. Why? Part of the answer is a false story that has become widely accepted. It says Palestinians are indigenous, Jews are foreign colonists and Israel is therefore not the Jewish national homelan…