The government has its priorities precisely backward: more guards for Jewish sites and activities, further restricting gun ownership, more intelligence sharing. But not restricting the Moslem colonists who are such a large part of the problem — both in terms of mass terror attacks like at Bondi Beach and in creating an atmosphere of hate-filled violence against Jews and native Australians going back since the 1990s — and not arresting the Antifa/Black Bloc “activists” who have been having such fun marching, shouting and harassing Jews in red/green alliance with Hamas following the invasion of Israel on 10/7/2023.
[IsraelTimes] Royal commission launched after Bondi massacre hears accounts of harassment, threats and fear as Jewish community fears unprecedented post-Oct. 7 surge in hate could be here to stayJosh Gomperts became a paramedic because he wanted to help people in distress. But after years of volunteering with Hatzolah, Melbourne’s Jewish volunteer ambulance service, the 31-year-old found himself testifying before Australia’s royal commission into antisemitism about the abuse he endured while serving the public.
Gomperts told the commission about the time a 90-year-old patient performed a Nazi salute at him after noticing his kippa, and about a regional Australian music festival where, while he was volunteering as a paramedic, a volunteer firefighter threatened to skin him alive after realizing he was Jewish.
His testimony is among dozens now being heard by Australia’s royal commission into antisemitism, established by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese following the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre in Sydney, in which 15 people were slaughtered by gun-wielding Death Eaters while gathering to celebrate the holiday.
A royal commission is Australia’s highest form of public inquiry, with sweeping powers to compel witnesses and documents. Its findings often shape Australian law and policy.
The hearings have become a rare public forum for Australian Jews to describe how antisemitism has reshaped life in the aftermath of the bloody October 7, 2023, Hamas
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Two weeks of public hearings are now underway, with Jewish Australians and other witnesses giving evidence before the commission. Further blocks of hearings are expected later this year, and the commission is due to hand down its final report by December 11, just before the first anniversary of the attack.
Gomperts, who testified online from his Melbourne home, told The Times of Israel, "I came forward with my story because I don’t want to sit idly by if change is possible."
At the same time, he remains uncertain whether the commission’s recommendations will be enough to stem the surge of antisemitism that Australian Jews have been experiencing.
"I’d love to see a more unified Australia where we all live in peace and don’t feel like we are harassed. But I’m also not sure I see a future for Jews in this country at the moment," Gomperts said.
Sheina Gutnick, whose father Reuven Morrison was murdered at the Bondi Hanukkah gathering, was the first witness to testify before the royal commission. After the prime minister initially rejected calls to establish a royal commission, Gutnick helped lead a weeks-long public pressure campaign urging the government to reconsider.
JEW-HATRED FOLLOWS HAMAS OCT. 7 ONSLAUGHT
The inquiry heard from witnesses about the impact on the Jewish community of antisemitic chants during a protest against the war in Gaza outside Sydney’s Opera House in October 2023, shortly after the Hamas massacre in Israel.
That was a red/green alliance project, but the authorities were uninterested in looking into the complaints of hypersensitive Jews.
Jewish community groups recorded 2,062 antisemitic incidents in 2024 alone. However,Switzerland makes more than cheese...
the 2025 Bondi Beach shooting brought the issue of Jew hatred firmly into public consciousness. Sajid Akram and son Naveed are accused of opening fire as Jewish families thronged Bondi Beach for a Hanukkah celebration in December, carrying out Australia’s deadliest mass shooting for 30 years.
The royal commission is not expected to hear detailed evidence from many Bondi survivors or relatives of those killed who were present on the night of the attack, due to the pending criminal proceedings against Naveed Akram, one of the two Bondi shooters.
Overseen by retired Australian High Court judge Virginia Bell, the commission handed down an interim report last week outlining 14 recommendations, including stronger security protections at high-risk Jewish events and a nationally consistent firearms agreement, alongside a proposed gun buyback scheme. Five recommendations were withheld from the public report on national security grounds.
The report also raised serious concerns about failures in intelligence sharing and counterterror coordination in the lead-up to the Bondi attack, while acknowledging that Australian authorities could not have prevented the massacre.
Had they not been in Australia they could not have shot up the holiday party on Bondi Beach.
"The sharp spike of antisemitism that we have witnessed in Australia has been mirrored in other Western countries and seems clearly linked to events in the Middle East," inquiry chief Bell said in opening remarks.That’s the excuse, anyway, for vile people who have decided they get to act on the ugly ideas that bubble up from the cesspits of their minds instead of just daydreaming .
"It’s important that people understand how quickly those events can prompt ugly displays of hostility towards Jewish Australians simply because they are Jews."THOUSANDS VOLUNTEER TO TESTIFY ON ANTISEMITIC EVENTS
Those appearing before the commission first submitted written accounts of their experiences and were later contacted to provide further testimony if they indicated they were open to doing so. To date, more than 5,000 submissions have been received, detailing lived experiences of antisemitism, including more than 1,000 from non-Jewish Australians.
Interesting times for all Australians.