The Australian government’s special envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal, says hate has been “seeping into society for many years and we have not come out strongly enough against it.”
The Bondi shooting was an “attack on Australia, not just on the Jewish community,” she tells public broadcaster ABC.
Segal was appointed Australia’s first antisemitism envoy in 2024, after a string of attacks in Sydney and Melbourne following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza.
Even before the latest shooting, she had decried an upswing in violence against Jewish Australians.
“We’ve seen cars being torched, synagogues being torched, individual Jews harassed and attacked, and that is completely unacceptable,” she said in July. “These are not isolated events, and they form part of a broader pattern of intimidation and violence that is making Jewish Australians feel very unsafe.”
In a 16-page report, Segal made a broad set of recommendations, including strengthening hate and intimidation laws, improving education about the Holocaust and other issues, and holding universities accountable for antisemitism.
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