Policies to prevent hate and rebuild Australian faith
December 23, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein
Now, 15 people have been murdered. Are the Prime Minister’s announcements patches to cover his embarrassment, or does he truly want to tackle the profound problems?
A line of blood in the sand: this attack was a predictable culmination
December 23, 2025 | Allon Lee
All Australians, including the PM need to now recognise that December 14 was a bloody line in the sand, and we desperately need to identify and confront all the elements that led to its crossing.
I’m an Australian Jew: Your support, and support from around the world, really matters to us
December 19, 2025 | Justin Amler
Never underestimate the power of standing with someone who is hurting, and the impact that support has, because I know that we all feel it deeply down under in this far corner of the world.
We must dismantle the structures that allowed antisemitism to take root
December 19, 2025 | Paul Rubenstein
If Australia wishes to remain the Lucky Country, then it must act – not symbolically, not cautiously, not only when convenient. Because the cost of doing nothing will be far greater.
The horror of being proven right
December 18, 2025 | Justin Amler
Jewish community bodies kept warning that things were getting worse — that if it was not addressed, it would only be a matter of time before people were killed. Yet much of Australia’s cultural elite insisted that this all was either a moral panic, a hoax, or a red herring… The worst offenders made the antisemitic claim that Jews were “weaponising” antisemitism to shut down debate about policy toward Israel.
Jewish Australians are shocked but not surprised
December 16, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein
We already know that the atmosphere of vicious antisemitism and incitement must have contributed. It’s something our Jewish community has been pleading with governments and authorities to act on vigorously for more than two years.
What kind of Jewish life is possible in this country?
December 16, 2025 | Mark Leibler, Paul Rubenstein
However, even as we struggle to understand and come to terms with what happened, one thing we do know is that this event must represent a transformational watershed in Australia’s approach to the scourge of anti-Semitism that has plagued our country for over two years.
Mass shooting on Sydney’s Bondi Beach: Jamie Hyams on NPR radio
December 16, 2025
NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to Jamie Hyams, director of public affairs for the Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
I warned the PM about terror risk, but his office didn’t listen
December 16, 2025 | Bren Carlill
Every Sunday for two years, people in Melbourne marched down the street displaying Hezbollah symbols without being arrested. They chanted genocidal chants. They shouted slogans calling Jews terrorists. Police stood by and watched.
Calls for the Federal Government to do more to stop anti-Semitism: Colin Rubenstein on ABC Radio National
December 16, 2025
Speaking to Kylie Morris on The Radio National Hour, Dr Colin Rubenstein says the federal government needs to do more to stamp out anti-Semitism.
‘I’m a Jewish woman living in Australia. This doesn’t just feel personal, it is personal.’
December 15, 2025 | Rebecca Davis
Show solidarity publicly. Make antisemitism reprehensible. Intolerable. It’s how homophobic and other racist sentiment changed. Reach out to Jewish people you know — or don’t. Because Jews are the ‘canaries in the coal mine’. It never ends with us.
The attack we warned would happen
December 15, 2025 | Justin Amler
This is a moment that has torn our souls and left our hearts in tatters. The targeted attack on Australian Jews at a Chanukah event will go down as the darkest day in the history of Australian Jews. But it will also go down as one of the darkest days in the history of Australia itself.
