Divisions run deep within the Jewish community and anger is brewing in Muslim communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON/SYDNEY – Many Jewish people in the United States are deeply worried about rising anti-Semitism, supercharged by the war between Israel and Hamas that has inflamed passions on all sides to an intensity not seen in recent memory.that left 1,400 Israelis dead has affected Jewish, Palestinian and wider Arab communities in varying ways.
France is home to around six million Muslims, mostly of North African descent, who have long been sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. This was since the Hamas attack on Oct 7 initiated the current wave of violence and reprisals, which has seen over 7,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza, according to figures released by the Health Ministry there.
Security has been stepped up at Jewish schools and synagogues, and at mosques, with the help of an extra A$10 million from the federal government. “Though we may be far away, our hearts and our prayers are with the people of Israel,” Mr David Ossip, president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, said at the Sydney rally on Oct 11.Some Australians have been directly affected by the Hamas attacks, including hundreds evacuated on repatriation flights arranged by the federal government.
Of these funds, at least US$70 million had been raised by the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. “It has brought to the surface fissures between progressive and conservative Jews, younger and older Jews, and between Jews for whom a pro-Israel position is a political litmus test – and those who do not believe that is a litmus test.”
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