SYDNEY – Anti-Semitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, fuelling violence against Jewish people, the country’s spy chief told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting on May 25.The comments came during public hearings in the wide-ranging inquiry, known as a Royal Commission, that focus on the events leading up to the December 2025 Bondi attack, which killed 15 attending a Jewish Hanukkah celebration.The spike in anti-Semitic incidents contributed to the agency’s decision to raise the national terrorism threat level to “probable” in August 2024, said Mr Mike Burgess of the...
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