A Sri Lankan-born pastor's daughter becomes a voice against antisemitism in Australia

(JNS) SYDNEY, Australia - When Sharon Stoliar saw the images of masked terrorists rampaging through southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, she immediately was taken back to her childhood nearly four decades ago in Sri Lanka.

The academic researcher and former midwife, who came to Australia as a girl of five, vividly recalled how her father, a pastor with the Wesleyan Methodist Church, was held at gunpoint by rebels in Sri Lanka.

"It brought up all those memories," she recounted in an interview with JNS. "People were shocked that I still remembered after all these years. This is something that shapes...