By Christine ChenSYDNEY, May 25 (Reuters) - Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, fuelling violence against Jewish people, the country's spy chief told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting on Monday.The comments came during public hearings in the wide-ranging inquiry known as a Royal Commission that focus on the events leading up to last December's Bondi attack, which killed 15 attending a Jewish Hanukkah celebration.

Counter-terror authorities and police will face the royal commission this week as haunting photographs of the festival later targeted by terrorists emerge.

An Australian spy agency boss has told an inquiry he had pivoted resources away from counterterrorism to espionage and foreign a few years before two gunmen massacred 15 people at…

Fifteen people were killed in the attack.

SYDNEY: Australia’s spy agency was “stretched” by threats on many fronts in the lead-up to an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi in December, the nation’s intelligence chief said…

SYDNEY: Australia's spy agency was "stretched" by threats on many fronts in the lead-up to an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi in December, the nation's intelligence chief said…

By Christine ChenSYDNEY, May 25 (Reuters) - Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, fuelling violence against Jewish…

Australia’s spy chief on Monday told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting that anti-Semitism was left unchecked in the country after the start of the war in…

Commission also told NSW police declined to provide static police presence at Chanukah by the Sea but four officers were at event when attack began

Unchecked antisemitism after Oct. 7 helped normalize threats and violence against Jewish Australians, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess says, as inquiry examines police…

NSW Police revealed they turned down a request for greater presence at the Chanukah event in Bondi Beach from a Jewish security group.