00:01Commissioner Virginia Bell is continuing to hear the experiences of Jewish Australians
00:06and how anti-Semitism impacts their everyday lives here at the Royal Commission today.
00:12This morning we've heard from two women who detailed how their experiences as children
00:18in Australia is vastly different to that of their own children today.
00:22They say there's been a real increase of anti-Semitism since the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel
00:29in 2023. Here's what they had to say earlier.
00:33My children go to the same school I went to and I mentioned inside, you know, when I used to
00:38get picked up at Go With The Flow,
00:40I'd just sit on the grass outside and wait for my mum to come and pick me up.
00:44And now my children go to school with concrete bollards, making sure that no one's going to ram them with
00:49a car.
00:50I'm hoping that Australia will wake up to this evil that has taken root in this country,
00:59not only for the Australian Jewish community, but for all Australians alike.
01:05This current hearing block will run until the end of next week, which will delve into the nature of anti
01:11-Semitism
01:11as well as how it's measured and reported.
01:15There'll then be an extra two hearing blocks until the Commission wraps up
01:21and the Commissioner provides her final report in December on the first anniversary of the Bondi Beach terror attacks.
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