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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Executive Council of Australian Jewry

A man walks past the burnt front entrance of the East Melbourne Synagogue in Melbourne on July 6, 2025. (William WEST / AFP)
July 6, 2025, 4:46 pm
After brief hiatus, antisemitism in Australia rears head with Melbourne attacks
While government seems to be taking anti-Jewish threats more seriously, hate speech is becoming more normalized, community leaders say
By Zev Stub
Hillel Fuld (Courtesy)
June 8, 2025, 7:36 pm
Australia blocks visit by Israel activist Hillel Fuld, causing outrage
Scheduled to speak at events to raise money for Magen David Adom, Fuld had his visa rescinded as he was accused of being a ‘merchant of Zionist hate speech’
By Zev Stub
Imam Ahmad Zoud goes on an anti-Semitic rant during his Friday sermon at the Sydney mosque Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba on December 22, 2023. (Screen capture: MEMRI, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 1, 2025, 3:15 pm
Australian Imam who apologized for antisemitic sermon now calls to ‘kill all oppressors’
Sheikh Ahmed Zoud recently retracted claim that Jews are bloodthirsty and treacherous, but new statements raise questions as to whether he is using dog whistle to continue preaching hate
By Zev Stub
This handout photo taken and released by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on December 10, 2024, shows Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) visiting the torched Adass Israel Synagogue with Rabbi Shlomo Kohn in Melbourne on December 10, 2024. (Handout / DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)
May 4, 2025, 5:39 pm
Disappointed by Labor victory, Australia’s Jews hope for a new tack on hate crimes
Jewish organizations look to incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to crack down on antisemitic attacks that have proliferated throughout the country
By Zev Stub
Footage posted to social media shows a fire blazing in the Adass Israel Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea, Australia, December 6, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 18, 2025, 5:53 pm
Australian political rivals pledge to rebuild Melbourne’s firebombed synagogue
Both the ruling Labour Party and the opposition Liberals say they’ll spend more than $20 million, with combating antisemitism a hot-button issue in May elections
By Zev Stub
Illustrative: Australian police block a street near a crime scene at Bondi Junction in Sydney, April 14, 2024. (Rick Rycroft/AP)
March 10, 2025, 1:23 pm
Australian police: Organized crime network faked synagogue bomb attack plot
Deputy national security commissioner says suspects prepared explosives, then informed authorities with the aim of ‘changing their criminal status’
By Agencies, Zev Stub and ToI Staff
Police stand near houses vandalized with anti-Israel slogans in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, Australia, December 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
January 21, 2025, 4:59 pm
Australia probing whether ‘foreign actors’ behind antisemitic surge, after daycare torched
Jewish community leader say officials finally taking issue seriously after months of mounting attacks, but many skeptical, with special operation netting only single arrest so far
By Zev Stub
The aftermath of an arson attack at Adass Israel Synagogue in the suburb of Ripponlea, Melbourne, December 6, 2024. (Screenshot/Osher Feldman/X/; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 6, 2024, 6:02 pm
Police hunt 2 suspects in devastating arson attack on Melbourne’s Addas Israel synagogue
Victoria state premier pledges funds for repairs, is heckled by outraged Jewish community members; Netanyahu blames attack on Canberra’s ‘extreme anti-Israel’ stance
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Protesting students occupy an area of the quadrangle at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
December 1, 2024, 5:13 pm
Anti-Jewish attacks in Australia quadrupled after October 7, report finds
Report’s authors say the 2,062 incidents recorded still understate the seriousness of the surge in antisemitism
By Zev Stub
Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at a press conference announcing the Jewish Security Alliance at the ADL's investigative research lab. Behind him is Scott Richman, the regional director of ADL’s New York-New Jersey Office, CSS CEO Evan Bernstein and CSI Executive Director Mitch Silber. (Jacob Henry via JTA)
July 25, 2023, 10:15 am
ADL sets up a 7-country international task force on antisemitism
The American group’s partners in the J7 initiative are major Jewish communal organizations in Britain, France, Germany, Argentina, Canada and Australia
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia, on February 22, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO via Flash90)
March 6, 2023, 1:54 pm
With ‘unconditional love,’ Australian Jewish groups voice fear over judicial shakeup
Major organizations express ‘serious concern’ over proposals without broad consensus, potential changes to ‘grandchild clause’ in Law of Return that may impact Diaspora ties
By Michael Horovitz
In this Dec. 5, 1931 photo, Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, is saluted as he leaves the party's Munich headquarters (AP Photo, File)
June 1, 2020, 11:52 am
Australian channel sorry for Hitler pic in TV report on rugby game’s ‘fake fans’
Fox Sports Australia apologizes after show superimposes image of Nazi leader over cardboard cutouts that have been populating stadiums amid pandemic
By Agencies
Firemen and rescue workers walk through the debris after a terrorist attack on Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 17, 1992. (Don Rypka/AP)
January 14, 2020, 4:40 pm
Despite danger, Soleimani killing not changing Jewish security around the world
Iran and its proxies have retaliated against Jewish targets before, yet communities say their primary concern remains anti-Semitism, not being dragged into US-Iran conflict
By Sam Sokol
Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
December 28, 2019, 9:09 am
Drawn-out legal saga in sex crimes case rattles Israel-Australia ties
Ex-head of Jewish group says alleged victims dealt ‘further trauma,’ Israeli institutions ‘undermined’ by failure of repeated hearings to rule if Malka Leifer can be extradited
By Tia Goldenberg
A Jewish boy allegedly being forced to kiss a classmate's feet is causing outrage in Australia. (Twitter via JTA)
November 26, 2019, 8:19 pm
Anti-Semitic incidents up 30% in Australia, report says
368 anti-Jewish incidents recorded in past year, including 225 attacks
By henry Benjamin
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