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Antisemitism royal commission LIVE: Jewish community fears ‘next Bondi’, social media giants failing to act on vile slurs

The Sydney Morning Herald·Michaela Whitbourn, Alexandra Smith·28 days ago
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Key Posts 4.22pm The day in review By Thank you for reading our live coverage of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Twelve members of the Jewish community in Australia gave evidence today about their lived experience. Here’s what some of them had to say: SBS board member Dr Vic Alhadeff, a former chief executive of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, said: “I know I’m confident that I speak for most Jewish-Australians when I say that we fear the next Bondi. And that is our truth, that is our normal, that is our new reality.” Jeremy Stowe-Lindner, principal of Bialik College in Melbourne, said students “can’t go into the CBD in Melbourne any more in school uniform” after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack precipitated a wave of antisemitic abuse. “We have had Hitler salutes and Jewish slurs.” He said pupils were spat on by two students from another school during one university trip.…

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