Australia’s soaring levels of anti-Jewish violence and vandalism have revealed how a country’s foreign policy impacts its internal affairs and how quickly an issue can become a crisis if the response of government is inadequate or ineffective.
Since the Hamas invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Australia’s Jewish community has been confronted with a government marching away from its traditional support for U.S. policies on Israel as well as an increasingly turbulent domestic situation.