‘Disturbing parallels’: Holocaust survivors president says exclusion of Jews from public life similar to Nazi Germany
George Foster has told the Melbourne hearings of the Australian royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion that there are parallels in Australia with Nazi Germany. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAPView image in fullscreenGeorge Foster has told the Melbourne hearings of the Australian royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion that there are parallels in Australia with Nazi Germany. He said he was shocked by a protest on the steps of the Sydney Opera House two days after Hamas’s attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.“We heard expletives, and you know vilification of Jews to a point which shocked me, and I know much, if not all, of the Jewish community.
- ▪George Foster has told the Melbourne hearings of the Australian royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion that there are parallels in Australia with Nazi Germany.
- ▪Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAPView image in fullscreenGeorge Foster has told the Melbourne hearings of the Australian royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion that there are parallels in Australia with Nazi Germany.
- ▪He said he was shocked by a protest on the steps of the Sydney Opera House two days after Hamas’s attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.“We heard expletives, and you know vilification of Jews to a point which shocked me, and I know much, if n
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George Foster has told the Melbourne hearings of the Australian royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion that there are parallels in Australia with Nazi Germany. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAPView image in fullscreenGeorge Foster has told the Melbourne hearings of the Australian royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion that there are parallels in Australia with Nazi Germany. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAPRoyal commission on antisemitism and social cohesionHolocaust survivors president says exclusion of Jews from public life has ‘disturbing parallels’ to Nazi GermanyGeorge Foster tells royal commission Australia’s democratic institutions fundamentally different, ‘but I can’t ignore certain disturbing parallels in the social atmosphere’ Follow our Australia news live…
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