A five-fold increase in antisemitic incidents following the October 7 terror attacks inside Israel has motivated more than 600 of Australia’s business, political, sporting and community leaders to sign a statement rejecting hatred and discrimination.

In an exercise unprecedented in scale, the signatories, Jewish and non-Jewish, rail against all forms of discrimination that have been unleashed, including Islamophobia, but focus on antisemitism, which has been the most pronounced as the war inside Gaza has raged.