{"id":648236,"date":"2026-05-04T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:53:08","slug":"daughter-of-bondi-terror-victim-to-give-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648236\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of Bondi terror victim to give evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grandfather, giving evidence anonymously under the pseudonym AAL, has spoken with great emotion about his fears for his grandchildren encountering antisemitism in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this country. I thought we\u2019d made a great choice,\u201d he said, his voice trembling with emotion.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was \u201cnot the Australia I chose to call home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>AAL also told the commission that his young granddaughter, who attended a non-Jewish school, was subjected to a substitute English teacher \u201cperforming several Hitler salutes\u201d in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy granddaughter was 13, 14 at that stage and left the classroom deeply shocked\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cto the principal\u2019s credit, she invited my daughter and my granddaughter to talk to her and praised her for being brave\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, after losing several friends, his granddaughter left the school and was enrolled in a Jewish day school, \u201cwhich is also a little confronting to go past armed guards as she goes to school but she is much happier there\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grandfather, giving evidence anonymously under the pseudonym AAL, has spoken with great emotion about his fears for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-648236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648236","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=648236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}