The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will deliver its interim report to the governor-general by April 30. Public hearings will follow, defining antisemitism and its effects on Jewish Australians.
As a researcher of political violence, I provided a submission to the NSW parliamentary committee considering prohibitions on slogans that some argue incite hatred and violence against Jews, such as “globalise the intifada”.
In the wake of the Bondi Beach attack in December, the political debate in Australia has directed an inordinate amount of attention to these protest slogans as a source of antisemitism.
