Royal commission lays bare the fear and anger of Jewish Australians. But has it got to the heart of antisemitism?

The Jewish community is still in a ‘deep process of grief and mourning’ after the Bondi attack, one Sydney rabbi says, but hopeful the royal commission on antisemitism ‘can really make a difference’. Photograph: Steve Markham/AP

As the university student Liat was excused from the witness stand of the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion, she felt a weight lifted off her chest.

“It was certainly very cathartic for me … having gone through the majority of my university life in a state of fear,” she says.