Condemning a terrorist attack is easy. We need the condemnation, and the solidarity, but we also need action
Being Jewish in Australia today feels very different to when I was a child.
Growing up, it was about family, community, culture. It was about our customs, cuisine, our shared history and connectedness.
I learned about antisemitism, but it was mostly historic. Centuries of the persecution, expulsion and mass murder of Jews around the world – not least during the Holocaust, recent enough that there were living survivors to tell their stories first-hand.
But I grew up in a country with no real history of antisemitism, in a small, tight-knit community that was deeply embedded in the nation around it.
