May 4 (UPI) -- Jewish Australians on Monday told a commission of inquiry into anti-Semitism in the wake of the Bondi Beach mass shooting that killed 15 Jews and injured 40 that open anti-Semitism in Australia meant they no longer felt safe.
Testifying on the first day of the phase II of the commission, which got underway Feb. 24, Sheina Gutnick, daughter of Reuven Morrison who died tackling the gunmen, was one of several witnesses who recounted incidences of coming under threat and the belief that warnings from the community over rising anti-Semitism were either not taken seriously or ignored altogether.
Gutnick, who said her parents, who arrived separately as refugees, married after meeting at Bondi Beach, told the Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion hearing that she lived in continual state of fear and felt unsafe in public places.
She said Bondi, where her parents started their life together and where she had beautiful childhood memories, and then with her own family, now "holds a really heavy weight in our community's heart."
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