The Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, has triggered a surge in antisemitism in Australia, with Jewish communities experiencing a dramatic increase in violence, vandalism, and harassment. This rise in hate crimes coincides with Australia's government distancing itself from traditional support for U.S. policies on Israel, creating a volatile domestic climate.
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 of hundreds of Jewish Australians and their families. Jewish-owned businesses have been vandalized with antisemitic slogans and Hamas symbols, and some businesses have folded under the weight of coordinated boycott campaigns. The office of a Jewish member of parliament was firebombed and daubed with pro-Palestinian graffiti and a neighborhood in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the center of the city’s Jewish community, had cars set on fire and homes vandalized with anti-Israel messages in two separate attacks. For a community that began with the arrival of the very first convict ships from England in 1788, the lowest points in the community’s long and distinguished history were in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 atrocities and on Dec. 6 of this year. On Oc
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