Conspiracies flooded social media within minutes of Bondi massacre

Within 15 minutes of Sunday’s deadly shooting at a Bondi Beach Chanukah celebration, antisemitic conspiracy theories claiming Jews orchestrated their own massacre were already spreading across social media platforms.

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‘Fear has killed our dream’: Avner’s Bakery prepares to close after two years of threats

Avner’s Bakery, the popular Jewish bagel shop in Sydney’s Surry Hills, is preparing to close its doors, citing sustained antisemitic harassment and escalating safety concerns following the recent violence in Bondi.

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PM ‘ready for the fight’ on antisemitism and gun laws

As governments contemplate landmark reforms to the nation’s gun laws in the wake of the Bondi stabbing, Jewish groups say cultural change is also needed. Read more

Coalition launches antisemitism and counter-terror taskforce

The Coalition has established a dedicated Taskforce on Antisemitism, Extremism and Counter-Terrorism, citing an escalating threat to public safety and Australia’s Jewish community. Read more

Australian values’: massacre fuels immigration debate

Australia’s immigration policy is back on the agenda after two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish celebration taking place at Sydney’s most iconic beach. Read more

Jewish leaders state Bondi Beach terror attack was ‘inevitable’

In the wake of a horrific terrorist attack at a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach that claimed 16 lives and injured dozens more, prominent Jewish community leaders held a sombre press conference near the site of the shooting on the morning of 15 December 2025.

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Hate in plain sight

CyberWell, working alongside a nonprofit trusted partner of Meta (Facebook, Instagram and Threads), TikTok and YouTube to combat online antisemitism, has identified a rapidly expanding trend of coded antisemitic hate speech that uses emojis and coded language to target Jews across social platforms. Read more

A soldier’s new mission – fighting antisemitism

On the night of October 10, 2023, days after the massacre in Israel, crowds chanted ‘Where’s the Jews?’ at the Sydney Opera House. Watching the news the next day, Col Michael Scott turned to his wife. ‘I can’t stay silent,’ he said. It was at the moment he realised he had a responsibility to act.

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Nurses who threatened to kill Jewish patients committed for trial

Two dismissed nurses who allegedly made violent antisemitic threats during an online video chat with a Jewish social media personality appeared in a Sydney court on Tuesday, with both moving closer to District Court trials.

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AFP charges three men with Nazi-related offences in national crackdown on extremism

The Australian Federal Police have charged three men with offences linked to Nazi symbols and extremist material. This forms part of a coordinated national operation announced this week aimed at groups that threaten Australia’s social cohesion.

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International Jewish leaders call for urgent action on antisemitism

Leaders from major Jewish communities across the world concluded a significant visit to Australia last week, using their time in Sydney and Melbourne to voice growing concern about the sharp rise in antisemitism and the strain it has placed on Australian Jewry.

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World Jewish leaders unite in Australia against rising hate

Jewish leaders from the world’s seven largest diaspora communities met in Sydney today for the first J7 Task Force Summit held in Australia warning that the sharp rise in antisemitism here is part of a wider global pattern.

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ECAJ report finds extreme antisemitism has become part of the mainstream

The newly released ECAJ Report on Anti-Jewish Incidents in Australia 2025 reveals that Australian Jews have endured a second frightening year of unprecedented antisemitism.

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Segal defends response to neo-Nazi rally as envoys disagree on terror definition

Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, appeared before Senate Estimates today, where she was questioned about her office’s response to a neo-Nazi demonstration held outside NSW Parliament on 8 November.

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Chancellor warns universities failed Jewish students after October 7

Western Sydney University chancellor Jennifer Westacott revealed her childhood experience of “severe violence” and antisemitism in a speech to Australian Jewish Funders and the Dor Foundation on Monday, 1 December.

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Scarlett Johansson: Film backer tried to change Shoah plot

A financial backer of Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debut “Eleanor the Great” asked her to change the film’s Holocaust-centered storyline just one month before production was scheduled to begin. Read more

Between two blades: Global squeeze on world Jewry

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the global Jewish Diaspora is facing an unsettling squeeze, one that is closing in from both ideological extremes. Read more

Bondi Beach hit by antisemitic graffiti attack as police hunt two suspects

Bondi Beach residents woke on Saturday to new antisemitic graffiti, the latest in a series of incidents that have unsettled the local Jewish community and prompted a renewed appeal from police for information.

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NSW Parliament passes new laws to protect places of worship

The NSW Parliament has passed legislation ensuring people can attend their places of worship without being blocked, harassed or intimidated, with police retaining powers to move on protesters who interfere with access.

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Illusions and Delusions

Those Jews who survived the Second World War were under no illusion that the world cared about them. Read more

Light overcomes darkness: NSW leaders deliver united message at Chanukah event

The Jewish community has “reclaimed this house for the people of New South Wales.” Read more

Lookout avoids jail for role in Woollahra hate crime spree

A Sydney court has heard the real reason behind 21-year-old Thomas Stojanovski’s participation in a spree of antisemitic vandalism and arson that shocked Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

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The mainstreaming of Jew-hatred

In both America and Britain, a disturbing restructuring of politics is underway that appallingly hinges on the demonisation of Israel and the loathing of the Jews. Read more

‘I risked my career’ to speak out for Israel, says Canadian model

When Canadian-Slovakian model Miriam Mattova began posting in support of Israel after Hamas’s October 7 attacks, she lost many Instagram followers and one of her PR agencies dropped her, warning she was being “too political.” Read more

Never Again? How the West betrayed the Jews and itself

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Sydney rabbi vows ‘zero tolerance’ after son abused in antisemitic incident

Rabbi Yossi Friedman has vowed to ensure an alleged antisemitic attack on his eight-year-old son in Dover Heights does not “go unchecked”, after the boy was verbally abused and subjected to an obscene gesture while walking home from school.

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“In today’s atmosphere, it could happen again”

On the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors who lived through the 1938 pogrom as children issued a powerful warning about the dramatic rise in global antisemitism, saying the world today is no safer for Jews than 87 years ago. Read more

NSW moves to tighten protest laws

The NSW government has moved to restore police powers to disperse protesters harassing or intimidating worshippers, introducing new legislation after a successful Supreme Court challenge.

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Scarlett Johansson voices fear of antisemitic violence

Jewish-American actress Scarlett Johansson called out the alarming rise in antisemitism in a recent interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News, discussing concerns that it could lead to physical violence. Read more

‘Will not be bullied’: female MPs stare down neo-Nazis

Two women representing large Jewish communities say they will not be intimidated by extremist neo-Nazis as police permission for a street rally is questioned. Read more

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