The year was 2006 and in Israel, the 2nd Lebanon war raged. In Australia, especially at Sydney University, we fought antisemitism. I was sitting at Shalom College, home of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students, planning how to fight the anti – Israel sentiment sweeping campus. A community leader who had fought the same battle decades earlier shared his thoughts. “Don’t worry too much” he said. “Most of these so-called ‘activists’ never make the jump into real politics, and the ones that do – like Anthony Albanese, never reach real positions of power.”

25 years have passed. Anthony Albanese is prime minister (largely because the way the Labor Party chooses its leader has changed).  For two years, Albanese and his government failed to act as an unprecedented and sustained wave of antisemitism engulfed Australia. Jewish leaders pleaded for........

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