{"id":692682,"date":"2026-05-25T03:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T03:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:11:10","slug":"antisemitism-royal-commission-live-police-asio-boss-and-jewish-security-group-members-to-give-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692682\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism royal commission LIVE: Police, ASIO boss and Jewish Security Group members to give evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s spy boss has taken the stand in the royal commission, saying the agency had pivoted toward espionage and foreign interference before the attack on Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n<p>ASIO director-general Mike Burgess AM said the agency had previously been devoted to identifying and countering violent extremism following the rise of Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ASIO boss Mike Burgess AM at the royal commission on Monday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/49bd2546e45f3797677e6bea9e06ce5a10f631ccf845d15e15f294a02a9c5548.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>ASIO boss Mike Burgess AM at the royal commission on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(But) when the caliphate was defeated, that shrunk considerably,\u201d Burgess said.<\/p>\n<p>Burgess said ASIO had been \u201cpivoting\u201d toward countering foreign powers trying to silence diasporas, spying or trying to shape political life in Australia in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery rock we lifted up, we found espionage or foreign interference,\u201d Burgess said.<\/p>\n<p>But, Burgess said, he believed there was no counter-terror information that went without investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s spy boss has taken the stand in the royal commission, saying the agency had pivoted toward espionage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-692682","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\/692682","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=692682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}