{"id":692840,"date":"2026-05-25T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692840\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:57:09","slug":"antisemitism-royal-commission-live-police-asio-boss-and-jewish-security-group-members-to-give-evidence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692840\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism royal commission LIVE: Police, ASIO boss and Jewish security group members to give evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt told the royal commission a caravan packed with explosives, dumped on the edge of Sydney, had a \u201cchilling effect\u201d on the Jewish community \u2013 even though the plot was a fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The caravan, found at the end of January 2025, was filled with mining explosives and notes suggesting a Sydney synagogue and a second venue were to be targeted in an antisemitic terror attack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt after appearing at the royal commission.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/764bde1d72d10ad517f7cd013a9f3632b06fd438.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt after appearing at the royal commission.Sitthixay Ditthavong<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Counter Terror Team, set up to investigate, found that organised criminals \u201cfabricated\u201d the plot to tip off authorities in exchange for preferential treatment in an upcoming court case.<\/p>\n<p>But it left the Jewish community terrified, Nutt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it was a fabricated plot, it had a chilling effect on the Jewish community,\u201d Nutt said in a statement to the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the extent of media attention it got, it had the desired effect \u2026 on the Jewish community in Australia at large,\u201d he told the royal commissions on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt told the royal commission a caravan packed with explosives, dumped on the edge&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-692840","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\/692840","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=692840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692840\/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=692840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}