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I now feel unsafe in Australia

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Published: 2 September 2024

Last updated: 11 September 2024

Monique Jedwab , 63

Industrial Designer and University tutor

Victoria

Since October 7 and more importantly the days following I’m horrified that in Australia we have experience such an antisemitism. My parents came here from Egypt in 1956 and sought to create a new peaceful Jewish life away from the Muslim fundamentalists. It worries me that Australia is being heavily influenced by the same people who spout hatred and antisemitism from their pulpits in the mosques. And the AUS government is doing nothing to stop this. The Jewish community here has contributed so much to Australian society, the arts, academia and higher education in general. I do not see the any positive influence coming from these Muslim immigrant populations. They seek only to bring their conflict that they experienced in their countries here. I have always been openly Jewish and have even more so trying to explain the Middle East situation to those that are misinformed. It has been very difficult with the pro-terror lobby misinforming the public and social media.
Only a re-education of the corrupt Palestinian education system will help this situation, but I fear it is too late. I now feel unsafe in the country that I was born in, just because I am Jewish.

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