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Letters To The Editor: Australian antisemitism

Dear Editor:

Growing up in Australia was so secure and pleasant. “G’day mate, how’re you going?” was the cheerful greeting of people as they passed each other in the street. We didn’t lock the doors and the windows were always kept open. How did this “pleasant, friendly society turn into one filled with so much hatred?

On Oct. 9, 2023, before we even understood what had happened in Israel, before we had started to defend our country, before we retaliated against the murderous attack on the kibbutzim and the border villages, Australians were standing in front of the Sydney Opera House yelling “...

 
 

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