The Albanese government has faced increased criticism from parts of the Jewish community and the Coalition over its handling of antisemitism.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has blasted the growing attacks on the federal government over its handling of antisemitism in Australia as “grotesque”, saying the issue did not belong to the left or the right of politics.80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration campPeople visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland.
“It’s been grotesque … to see the rise of antisemitism since October the 7th, but it’s been equally grotesque to see attempts being made to politicise either commemoration of the Holocaust or combating antisemitism; we need to get politics out of this”.More than 1.1 million people, predominantly Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz, along with Poles, Roma, Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war and homosexuals. Among them was Ida Ransenberg, Dreyfus’ great-grandmother, killed on October 14, 1942.
Dreyfus said Australia had not been alone in what had been a shocking rise in hate crimes against the Jewish community after the terror attacks by Hamas on Israeli citizens on Oct 7, 2023, and the country’s military bombardment of Gaza since. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton took aim personally Wong last week, saying Wong was the “most inappropriate person” to attend the event because she had “trashed” Australia’s reputation amid a high-profile diplomatic falling out with the Israeli government, including
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