Dina, a Jewish woman from Sydney, tells the antisemitism royal commission about how everyday life has changed for her and her three children. She says she fears them being targeted for being Jewish and that they have internalised a new reality: ‘They hear antisemitism around them all the time … they see the stickers, they see the graffiti, they know about Bondi. It’s become part of their psyche.’ The witness recalls her eight-year-old daughter crying and saying, ‘Now when I come to Bondi, I think about dying’
‘We feel like history is repeating’: Jewish Australians speak of increased sense of danger on first day of antisemitism royal commission
