John Swinney has said antisemitism in Scotland "cannot be tolerated" following the shooting at a Hannukah event in Australia. Fifteen people were killed in the attack in Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday after a father and son targeted celebrations on the first day of the festival.

After warnings about rising antisemitism, the Bondi Beach attack highlights the limits of prevention in a polarized Australia—and the pressures bearing down on leaders.

Government authorities have not done enough to stamp out hatred of Jews in Australia, which has allowed it to fester in the aftermath of October 7, said the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who was wounded at the Bondi shootings on Sunday.

Canberra said it had "credible intelligence" Iran likely directed others. The Australian debate is like a mirror of the American debate. Opposition figures had been warning for months that antisemitism was intensifying.

The subsequent sixteen months were sullied by firebombing, arson, graffiti, and hate speech incidents that prompted Mike Burgess, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), to proclaim that his top priority in terms of threat to life is antisemitism.

This research – which is in the early stages and yet to be peer reviewed – has recorded a significant increase in antisemitic sentiment after October 7.

Former IDF paratrooper Daniel Flesch discusses the Bondi Beach terror attack and Prime Minister Netanyahu's criticism of the Australian government's approach to antisemitism.

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