Tuesday, December 08, 2009

ANTISEMITISM IN AUSTRALIA

From a REPORT ON ANTISEMITISM IN AUSTRALIA, 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009, RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN BY JEREMY JONES AM, Director of International and Community Affairs, Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and Honorary Life Member, Executive Council of Australian Jewry, TO ASSIST UNDERSTANDING OF ANTI-JEWISH VIOLENCE, VANDALISM, HARASSMENT AND PREJUDICE IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA [previously quoted in this JIW posting]:



...The total for reports [of anti-Semitic incidents for the Year 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009] ...was far above twice the previous average. Many of the reports were of threats and abuse, primarily by email, rather than physical attacks on person or property, but the reports reveal that hundreds of Jewish individuals and organisations were targeted, some repeatedly, by persons seeking to intimidate or harass them.

Incidents of assault, arson attacks, face-to-face harassment and vandalism which are broadly defined as "attacks" were recorded at the third highest rate on record, just below the two previous 12 month periods. The total was more than double the previous average. Threats, conveyed through the telephone, mail, leaflets, posters or e-mail, were recorded at a rate just over three times the previous average and at the highest ever level....
...The receipt of abusive, threatening and other antisemitic email sent to individuals and communal offices was reported at a rate of almost twice a day in the year in review. The total during this reporting period was almost six times the average and sixty percent greater than the previous worst year....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In Toronto, we have serious Anti-Semitism forces building up.

A Jewish student by the name of Danial Freeman Malloy spearheads the Anti Israel efforts on campus making it more difficult to Jewish students, as he empowers the ever growing Anti-Israel block.

But last year, Mark Halawa, also a student at York University set up a booth called "Free Palestinians from Hamas" educating students on the real issue everyone faces in that region; radical Islamic movements that are funded by Iran to carry its agenda in Israel.

Mark Halawa wrote his personal story on Aish.com called, "The Jew from Kuwait. (http://www.aish.com/sp/so/70138567.html)

It is time to battle these movements by having courageous Muslim and Arab people stand up against the common lies spewed in the region.

Thank you,
Inbal K.