Adam Lippmann has made new friends in Israel after becoming socially ostracised in Sydney since the October 7 Hamas attack. He’s considering leaving Australia, the country his German grandfather and Iraqi grandmother fled to in the 1940s.

The 37-year-old gay man, writer and filmmaker says he used to feel at home in Sydney’s progressive circles, where he mixed with other creative types. Now, he says, he’s isolated and politically homeless. He’s also fearful and stunned as age-old hatreds rear up.