In Australia, Antisemitism Now Sky-High
The latest news from Down Under bodes ill for the nation’s Jews. The land of Botany Bay and We of the Never Never and Crocodile Dundee has become a place where Jews have been subjected nationwide to a sustained increase in harassment, vandalism, and arson. This includes recent incidents such as a Jewish family’s home in Adelaide being vandalized with swastikas and painted slurs.
The worst attack took place on Hanukkah, when Jews celebrating the holiday were mowed down on Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025, in a mass shooting. Two Muslim gunmen opened fire on the crowd, killing 15 and wounding 40. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for inciting the attackers.
These attacks on Jews have almost always been the sinister handiwork of Muslims who have in recent years been allowed into Australia in great numbers; there are now close to one million Muslims in the country. They have brought with them, and then spread, the virus of antisemitism. That pathological condition has now risen to vertiginous levels, and as a consequence more Australian Jews are making aliyah to Israel or moving to North America. More on their plight, and their flight, can be found here:
Australian antisemitism ‘passed point of no return,’ Jewish leader tells ‘Post’ after emigrating
by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2026:
Australian antisemitism “has passed the point of no return,” former president of the Australian Jewish Association, Dr. David Adler, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Adler recently relocated to Israel, citing the surge in antisemitism in Australia.
While the family only arrived on July 9, Adler told the Post that aliyah has been in “preparation for a long, long period of time.”
“We’ve seen a general deterioration in Australia for a long time,” he told the Post. “Australia has essentially outsourced its manufacturing. Its defense capacity is down. National identity is being lost. Education standards are down. There is a crazy socialist activism, left-wing activism. Those things have been building gradually. But no doubt October 7 unleashed a level of antisemitism and anti-Israel extremism that I didn’t think could occur in Australia.”
“On October 8, there were some leaders of the Muslim community and some Muslim groups in Australia celebrating on the streets. On October 9, we had the riots in front of the Opera House.”
What Adler found the most shocking was that the authorities “failed to act” after these incidents.
“There was not a single arrest from the riots at the Opera House, despite a number of laws being broken. And that area, I know from security experts, is covered by high-definition CCTV. However, the authorities chose not to act and instead warned the Jewish community not to go there,” he explained.
These Muslims, remember, appeared in force on October 8, 2023 to demonstrate in front of the Opera House in Sydney, one of the most famous buildings in Australia. They came out to celebrate the orgy of torture, gang rape, mutilation (genitals cut out or off, eyes gouged out), and murder that Hamas had carried out the day before. And the police did nothing.
The next day, a pro-Palestinian mob marched from the Sydney Town Hall to the Opera House. Chants heard at the rally included “f*** the Jews” and “f*** Israel.” Other chants called for the destruction of the Jewish state and the establishment of a state of “Palestine” to replace it: “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free.” And there was also a call to exterminate not Israelis, but all Jews: “Gas the Jews.” Again, the police did nothing. There were no arrests. The authorities “chose not to act and instead warned the Jewish community not to go there.”
Australia’s finest poet, the late Les Murray, who seldom commented on current events, made an exception when he championed Israel’s right to take part in the Asian Games. How would he react if he saw his country today?
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Australian government rejects ‘Islamophobia’ envoy’s recommendation to discount role of religion in terrorist acts
Australia’s “Islamophobia” top dog, Aftab Malik, recommended that the government discount religion as a motivating factor in terrorist acts. This was clearly an attempt to prevent the Australian government from discovering or shedding any light upon the role of Islam in the motivations of jihad terrorists. Anyone who dared to note that jihad violence was being committed in accord with Islamic texts and teachings would have been dismissed as “Islamophobic.” Surprisingly, Albanese rejected this recommendation, but Aftab Malik will no doubt keep pushing.
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Anthony Albanese releases government’s response to Islamophobia report
by Lexie Jeuniewic, David Lipson and Keane Bourke, ABC.net.au, July 17, 2026:
The Albanese government’s long-awaited response to its special envoy’s report on Islamophobia has rejected calls for an overhaul of counter-terror laws, focusing instead on a new education task force and expanded community liaison teams for police.
The government has committed to a package of new measures across education and awareness, protection and support, social cohesion, and accountability.
The response includes a review of the education curriculum to strengthen racial and religious tolerance, new multicultural grant programs and additional mental health support, especially for Muslim women.
The government’s response comes 10 months after special envoy to combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, released his report with 54 recommendations.
The author of a landmark report on Islamophobia in Australia says the federal government is taking too long to act on the issue.
Releasing the government’s response in Sydney on Saturday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended his decision not to adopt all of the recommendations.
“We’ve said it’s independent advice. What we don’t do is we don’t contract out government,” he said.
“Some of [the recommendations] we have adopted in full and are acting on already. Others we’ll give further consideration to.”
Mr Albanese also sought to explain why he rebuffed a push to water down the importance of religion and ideology in defining terrorism in federal laws over Mr Malik’s concerns they could lead to discrimination.
“We operate our terror laws on the basis of appropriate advice from national security agencies,” Mr Albanese said.
“But primarily, we sit in the National Security Committee of the government, and we take advice from our security agencies. I have confidence in them.”
Mr Malik’s submission to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion in June made 17 recommendations, including amending the definition of “terrorist act” in federal laws, “to reduce a reliance on ideological, political or religious motivation as a central criterion to the offence”….
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