00:01A fiery attack a world away from the Middle East.
00:05Jewish MP Josh Byrne's Melbourne office was violently ransacked in June 2024, but he told
00:13the commission it was online hate that struck a chord.
00:17It's like being stabbed twice, you know, once for the anti-Semitism and once being blamed
00:20for being stabbed in the first place.
00:22The federal Labor member described social media platforms as arenas of hate, telling
00:28the inquiry, his partner, politician Georgie Purcell, shouldered the abuse.
00:33Because she's a woman in politics, she also gets an added layer of misogyny and often
00:36violent sexualised language.
00:38In the wake of the Bondi terror attack, the government rushed hate speech reforms through
00:43Parliament, but a vilification clause didn't pass the bar.
00:47The eSafety Commissioner currently doesn't have the power to order the removal of hate
00:52posts targeting the Jewish community.
00:55We can do more to regulate more to impose standards on online media.
01:02One of the key challenges for the eSafety Commission is cracking down on social media giants based
01:07overseas.
01:08Meta, LinkedIn, Google and TikTok will front the inquiry, but the commission says others,
01:14including X, won't cooperate.
01:17Witnesses at the commission have also faced backlash.
01:20The Door Foundation collated 275 offensive posts.
01:26Only five have been removed by Facebook, 20 have been scrubbed from X.
01:31Explicit calls for violence against witnesses and Jewish people generally, including calls
01:37to kill Jews and bring back the gas chambers.
01:40Archaic hatred taking on a new form.
01:43The Door Foundation
01:44The Door Foundation
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