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The students were taking part in a shared activity at Melbourne Museum when the alleged incident occurred.

High schoolers allegedly hurl antisemitic abuse at Jewish children at Melbourne Museum

Grade 5 students from a Jewish school were allegedly called “dirty Jews” by a group of high schoolers.

  • Noel Towell and Bridie Smith

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When I visited Sydney, I was shocked by the antisemitism I encountered

Growing up Jewish in Australia, I had no personal family narrative of antisemitism. A weekend in Sydney changed that.

  • Marcus Solomon
The graffiti on Kingsland’s Boronia premises.

Racist graffiti daubed on Hindu temple, Asian restaurants in Melbourne’s east

Chinese restaurant Kingsland was defaced with hateful graffiti on one of its distinctive octagonal windows.

  • Alexander Darling
Rabbi Dovid Gutnick outside the charred entrance to the East Melbourne Synagogue.

Online hate report exposes ‘overt effort to normalise antisemitism’

Centuries-old tropes and conspiracy theories are becoming the norm in Australia after arson attacks and an antisemitism report triggered a torrent of hate, a study says.

  • Chip Le Grand

‘We need to find common ground’: Hugh de Kretser’s human rights challenge

As president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Hugh de Kretser walks a fine line. How can the organisation speak to all Australians?

  • James Button

To defend our democracy, PM must disavow and abandon Segal report

Combating antisemitism is a noble mission, but Jillian Segal’s report risks stoking it.

  • Richard Flanagan
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Former minister Ed Husic has criticised the envoy’s report, becoming the first Labor MP to break ranks on the issue.

‘Heavy-handed’: Former minister breaks ranks on antisemitism report

Labor MP Ed Husic said he was uncomfortable with Jillian Segal’s criticism of public broadcasters and her call to strip funding from institutions that fail to combat antisemitism.

  • Nick Newling and Matthew Knott
Elmo, a cheerful red Muppet created in 1979 but eternally 3½, has more than 650,000 followers on X.

Elmo’s X account gets hacked, posts antisemitic and racist messages

Sesame Workshop described the messages as “disgusting”, and said the red Muppet’s account had since been secured.

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Three-match ban for Roo ruck Xerri; Son of a Carlton gun in hot water over vicious VFL shove

North Melbourne will weigh up whether to challenge Tristan Xerri’s three-match ban for knocking out Melbourne’s Tom Sparrow. Meanwhile, Carlton’s Ben Camporeale has his own tribunal woes.

  • Peter Ryan and Hannah Kennelly
Effigies of migrants in a boat burn atop a bonfire at Moygashel, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, ahead of events to mark the Twelfth of July, Thursday July 10, 2025. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

‘Migrant boat bonfire’ investigated as a hate crime in Northern Ireland

Local politicians have condemned the bonfire, built as part of traditional “loyalist” July 12 celebrations, that featured effigies of channel migrants in a dinghy.

  • Amanda Ferguson and Clodagh Kiloyne

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