Australia’s spy chief on Monday told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting that anti-Semitism was left unchecked in the country after the start of the war in Gaza. Australian Security Intelligence Organisation head Mike Burgess added that before the attack that killed 15 people attending a Jewish Hanukkah celebration in December 2025, anti-Semitism had escalated in severity from “intimidating behaviour to direct targeting of people”.
Anti-Semitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Gaza war, fuelling violence against Jewish people, the country's spy chief told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting on Monday.
