In May 2024, one of Australia’s largest and oldest Jewish schools in Melbourne was spray-painted with the phrase “Jew die.” In a series of incidents in October 2024, a Jewish‑owned bakery in Sydney was defaced with antisemitic graffiti, two men set fire to a brewery near Bondi Beach, and a kosher deli was deliberately set on fire. According to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, the Bondi Beach shooting is the deadliest assault on Jews in the diaspora since the October 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life building in that city killed 11 people. “Gun numbers are on the rise,” the investigation noted, and, while the number of gun-license holders per capita has gone down, “there is now a larger number of guns in the community per capita than there was in the immediate aftermath of the [Port Arthur] crackdown.”
Author: Katie Herchenroeder
Published at: 2025-12-14 20:57:29
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