{"id":648234,"date":"2026-05-04T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648234\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:52:09","slug":"bondi-royal-commission-live-updates-jewish-australians-share-harrowing-lived-experiences-of-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648234\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi royal commission live updates: Jewish Australians share harrowing lived experiences of anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">AAM says \u201cmany people we know\u201d are wondering if it\u2019s time to leave Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cA lot of us don\u2019t feel safe here, we don\u2019t feel welcome anymore,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe thought things might be challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe never expected synagogues to be burned down, we never expected to be hunted on Bondi beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThere is so much fear and so much anxiety. All of us are nervous and worried about what could possibly come next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThere\u2019s something coming and we all know it. We all knew that Bondi was going to happen &#8211; it was not a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">AAM also says their own family has made the difficult decision to relocate to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe don\u2019t feel safe here, we don\u2019t feel welcome,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe feel safer in a war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Their 13-year-old daughter is heading to Israel for school because it\u2019s safer to be there than here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">They say the lucky ones pack their stuff into boxes to relocate &#8211; the unlucky ones go with just the clothes on their back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">They say \u201cwe\u2019re not here yet\u201d in Australia. But it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AAM says \u201cmany people we know\u201d are wondering if it\u2019s time to leave Australia. \u201cA lot of us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,12241,44,84,5071,1720],"class_list":["post-648234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-us-politics","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}