Martinez wrote that the 'root cause of antisemitism is the behavior of Israel and Israelis.'

The inquiry was formed to examine antisemitism and social cohesion issues in Australia following the Bondi Beach attack.

Burgess said the nature of antisemitic incidents moved beyond threats and harassment in 2024 to direct attacks on Jewish people and institutions.

Sheina Gutnick referred to the shift in the country following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel’s northwestern Negev.

The Royal Commission—Australia’s most powerful type of government inquiry can compel individuals to give evidence.

President Isaac Herzog honored the victims of last Chanukah’s Bondi Beach massacre in Australia, joining orphaned children at a Chabad synagogue as they recited Kaddish.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the site of the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia, placing two Jerusalem stones at the memorial and condemning antisemitism while urging the world to confront it head-on.

When Shikhverg recounted the ordeal, she said she was not asked for permission to change her name.

Leibel Lazaroff, a Chabad Orthodox Jew wounded in the Bondi Beach attack on the first night of Chanukah, returned to the scene to thank God for saving his life.

Australia’s Parliament dedicated a special session to the victims of the Bondi Chanukah terror attack, with MP Mark Dreyfus delivering a solemn Jewish prayer in a moment of national mourning and unity.

Albanese had earlier resisted demands to establish a royal commission, arguing the process would take years.

The Muslim hero Ahmed al-Ahmed, who disarmed one of the terrorists during the Bondi Beach massacre, was awarded a menorah for his selfless courage by a group of Jewish philanthropists at the Colel Chabad gala event.

A police prosecutor described the posts as antisemitic and deeply offensive, arguing they formed part of a sustained pattern rather than isolated remarks.

The key is not asking endlessly why antisemitism exists, but recognizing how it mutates.

One of the many wounded in the horrific Bondi Beach massacre on the first night of Chanukah, Leibel Lazaroff took his first steps after undergoing multiple surgeries.

Within minutes of performing the Jewish religious ritual, Meagher was fatally shot.

Seventeen families urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an open letter to 'immediately establish a Commonwealth Royal Commission into the rapid rise of antisemitism in Australia' and examine 'law enforcement, intelligence and policy failures that led to the Bondi Beach massacre.'

Blood libels are not designed to inform. They are designed to license — to rationalize and justify antisemitic violence.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry publicly condemned the 'violent attack' in Sydney, though the statement was vague and made no mention of antisemitism, the local Jewish community, or any specific target.

The planned visit comes amid strained relations between Jerusalem and Canberra.

Police said Naveed Akram, 24, and his father, Sajid, recorded themselves denouncing the actions of “Zionists” while seated in front of an Islamic State flag and surrounded by firearms.

This is a global intifada. For Diaspora Jews, it’s an emergency. But it’s also a last warning for the West to take Islamic extremism much more seriously.

Chanukah is often softened into a generic story about 'light in dark times.' But that framing misses its harder truth.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was among at least 15 people killed in the shooting at the Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach.

Naveed and his father, Sajid Akram, 50, killed at least 15 people Sunday evening when they opened fire on a Chanukah event.

Two days after the Hamas invasion, masses filled Sydney streets waving Palestinian flags and chanting, 'Gas the Jews.'

Footage from the scene shows al-Ahmad hiding between parked cars before suddenly lunging at the armed attacker, wrestling the weapon out of his hands.

Only a few months ago, he noted that attendance at the Bondi Beach Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony had grown significantly since October 7, even as threats and hostility increased.

A therapeutic riding school in Israel’s Arava desert, each week takes 200 special needs children and adults into another dimension, and Israel founded Good Deeds Day in 2007, which since then includes blood donations, volunteering with the needy, helping out in animal shelters, and much more.