Once seen as a sanctuary, an anti-Israel protest this week turned Sydney into a hostile place for many Jewish people.
When Oliver Freedman goes shopping, visits relatives or gives board presentations, he wears a yarmulke. This week, for the first time in his life, the businessman said he felt afraid on Sydney’s streets wearing his Jewish skull cap.to the Opera House from Town Hall, which led to warnings from the police and Jewish community organisations to Jews to avoid the city for their safety.
“No one of any religion of belief should be told that,” Freedman said in a post on LinkedIn, a site he had never previously used to express religious or political views. One small business owner said her family hadn’t been told “they can’t go somewhere for their safety” since the Holocaust, which her four European grandparents managed to survive.
Young Muslims are taught they’re not welcome in the city’s white east and north, says Western Sydney University academic Rhonda Itaoui,the phenomenon as the geography of Islamophobia. This perception of hostility is why young Arab men often travel in groups when outside their home suburbs, she has written.in 2016. “I think that’s very strong in Sydney.”The informal border between Jewish and Islamic Sydney meets around Maroubra, a southern beach suburb.
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