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January 29, 2025

Australia Has Ceased to Be a Safe Place for Jews

Quibbles and mealymouthed public statements greet a wave of Hamas-inspired anti-Semitism.

On January 21, a little after 1 a.m., a day-care center in Sydney Australia, located next door to a Jewish school and synagogue, was set on fire and sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti. A week before that, swastikas were painted on a Sydney synagogue. Another synagogue was set ablaze in Melbourne last month. And a house that until recently was home to Alex Ryvchin, head of the country’s major Jewish organization, was targeted by vandals on January 17. Ryvchin comments on the surge of anti-Semitism in Australia, inspired by the October 7 attacks, and the feeble responses of the authorities:

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