\u201cNazi style slurs\u201d are being hurled at children<\/a> in schools that now look more like prisons due to increased security concerns in the wake of Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. <\/p>\nA 15-year-old Jewish boy, known only as ABB, detailed how he had been bullied since the end of 2024 and was targeted in a Minecraft chat group comprised of children from his school. <\/p>\n
Someone had written \u201cI hate the Jews\u201d in the chat group at one stage, but his stomach turned \u201cupside down\u201d after someone commented \u201crabid filthy rotten gut-wrenching grotesque rabbi yamaka wearing bank owning iron doming Hashem following Jew\u201d on another occasion. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt made my stomach turn upside down, I really just had to step away from my computer for a little bit and then, when I came back, I think I just closed and logged off for the day,\u201d the teen said.<\/p>\n
The children continued with the abuse after the 15-year-old confronted them at school and \u201ctold them to stop because it was destroying my mental health\u201d. \ufeff<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t tell his parents right away because he thought he could handle it, \u201cbut it just got out of hand\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI walked into their room and said I have no friends left,\u201d the teen told the hearing.<\/p>\n
His mother, ABD, said her son had \u201ctears in his eyes\u201d as he told them how his friends had locked him in a part of the game and left him alone to die. <\/p>\n
\u201cAppalled\u201d, ABD said her stomach drops knowing how her son had \u201cnormalised\u201d and had to \u201cmake his peace\u201d with the ordeal.<\/p>\n
\u201c(He) accepted it as part of his school life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
His parents said the school handled the situation really well and held an investigation, with three of the children also apologising to ABB. <\/p>\n
However if ABB is near the group too long at school they tell him to leave, the boy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time I go up to them, because some of my other friends sit with them \u2026 if I stay there for a little too long, they\u2019ll be like \u2018get out of here\u2019 or something like that,\u201d ABB said.<\/p>\n
ABB also told the hearing of how a group of Year 12s recently shouted something along the lines of \u201cHitler was right to kill them all\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI turned around expecting to see somebody staring at me or pointing at me but I found it was just a group of Year 12 boys who were just talking amongst themselves using it for general conversation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s father, ABE, said he no longer recognises this country, telling the hearing people used to be \u201ca lot more tolerant\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll of those Australian idioms that we have for people having a fair go, that seems to have been lost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to see something come out of this commission where we can chart the course back towards that Australia, or that attitude that we had in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
ECAJ researcher targeted with \u2018horrifying\u2019 anti-Semitic caricature <\/p>\n
Executive council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) research director Julie Nathan described the \u201chorrifying\u201d moment a sexualised caricature of her was shared on the internet. <\/p>\n
The caricature was accompanied with the words \u201cJulie simply desires to be filled with Aryan seed\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very much a sexualisation, so you have this Jewish caricature, this is the feminine version of it, with the long, curly hair, and the long fingernails \u2026 It was horrifying to see\u201d Ms Nathan told the royal commission. <\/p>\n
Ms Nathan, who authors the Jewish group\u2019s annual report on anti-Semitism in Australia, said a new form of anti-Semitism has emerged since October 7, 2023 telling the hearing there was a 316 per cent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Australia according to their 2024-2025 annual report.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re getting much more brazen and much more confident coming out and not ashamed or worried about it being anti-Semitic and inciting violence against Jews,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Online posts or publications are not included in the report \u201cbecause there are so many it\u2019s uncountable\u201d, Ms Nathan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like trying to count the stars,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Pro-Palestine material is also not counted as anti-Jewish, with Ms Nathan explaining a \u201cfree Palestine\u201d sticker would only be considered anti-Semitic if it was stuck on a synagogue or a Jewish school, for instance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael is a state like any other state, and just as we in Australia are free to criticise our government, our country \u2026 we accept that, and even though people may lie about things or may use offensive language,\u201d Ms Nathan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe accept that as being, you know, political discourse or political language. It\u2019s only when it crosses the line into anti-Semitism, that\u2019s when we will count it as anti Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n
The incidents, which are all personally reviewed by Ms Nathan, are recorded under six different categories including: physical assault, vandalism, verbal abuse, hate messages, graffiti and material such as banners and stickers.<\/p>\n
She spoke of some people on social media screenshotting the annual report and making fun of it, saying: \u201cWe\u2019re doing well boys, let\u2019s keep the momentum going\u201d.<\/p>\n
Fireworks in the street is Israel was \u2018counting its dead<\/p>\n
Fireworks in the streets as Israel was \u201cstill counting its dead\u201d in the wake of Hamas\u2019 2023 attack \u201cset the tone\u201d for the normalisation of Jewish hate in Australia, the leader of a Jewish organisation has told a hate inquiry.<\/p>\n
Many pointed to the Sydney Opera House protest on October 9, 2023, as a critical turning point in the rise of Jewish hate; however, Dor Foundation Tahli Blicblau chief executive instead submitted that scenes at a Western Sydney protest the day prior were pivotal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe events of October 7 were described as a day of pride and courage,\u201d Ms Blicblau told the royal commission on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cCars were driving \ufeffthrough Western Sydney setting off fireworks \u2026 that glorification of violence that night at a time when Israel was still counting its dead really set the tone for a permissive environment in which glorifying violence was accepted and permissible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Research from the Jewish body, which was established in 2024 to combat anti-Semitism, has revealed that most Australians can\u2019t recognise anti-Semitic tropes.<\/p>\n
Radical ideologies had converged in such a way that anti-Semitism was slipping into public discourse easier, Ms Blicblau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re shrouded just enough in language, often of human rights, to be acceptable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost Australians can\u2019t recognise anti-Semitic tropes when they see them, so they\u2019re presented with these hateful tropes and because they don\u2019t recognise it as being anti-Semitic, it\u2019s more likely to become normalised and accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Blicblau also spoke to the role of online spaces in helping move anti-Semitism away from \u201cshameful radical fringes\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe role of the internet and social media allows these hateful comments to reach millions of people within milliseconds, so in order to combat the new form (of anti-Semitism) \u2026 we need to operate there,\u201d Ms Blicblau said.<\/p>\n
Eight more witnesses are due to be called on Monday in the second week of hearings.<\/p>\n
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