00:01High security at places like synagogues and schools.
00:06This is the reality for Australia's Jewish community.
00:10In the past it was precautionary.
00:12Since October 2023 it has been critical.
00:17The Royal Commission today heard safety concerns have risen exponentially.
00:22One security firm saying volunteer hours have doubled.
00:26The financial costs tripled.
00:28There shouldn't be this financial burden on being Jewish today.
00:31The former Attorney General today opening up about his personal experience.
00:38At this violence against women protest a man called him a genocidal Zionist.
00:44No one had ever hurled abuse at me because I am Jewish.
00:49Amid heated debate, Mark Dreyfus asked the Royal Commission
00:53to consider protest exclusion zones around Jewish community places.
00:58Similar to Victorian laws for abortion clinics.
01:02Not to ban political protest but rather to protect Jewish Australians from going about their worship,
01:11from gathering, from going to school.
01:13He also suggested laws to help ordinary people get hateful content off social media.
01:19To say take that down and then that they not be oppressed by the disparity of resources.
01:27It's not just the financial costs but the psychological ones too.
01:33The Royal Commission is hearing about the constant anxiety many Jewish Australians face.
01:38With one security volunteer discouraging his family from attending community events.
01:45Selfishly I don't want to put myself in a position where I would have to decide between extracting them or
01:53dealing with a threat.
01:54We said no there's no CSG.
01:57That friend then bled.
01:59They said we are sitting ducks.
02:01There's nothing right.
02:02There at?
02:03Positive vous, there's nothing left there.
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