The antisemitic hate speech chanted by anti-Israel protesters at the Sydney Opera House last October besmirched Australia’s reputation for racial and religious tolerance. It was a wake-up call for all institutions making up Australia’s generally peaceful civil society to take action to prevent history’s oldest hatred from washing over these shores in the wake of the conflict in the Middle East.

But 10 months on from those disgraceful scenes outside Australia’s most iconic building that were beamed around the world, a drumbeat of disturbing stories involving covert or overt antisemitism shows Jewish Australians continuing to face totally unacceptable threats to their safety.