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Shane Shmuel

Shane Shmuel is a Melbourne-based finance director and CPA who, since Oct. 7, has become an active advocate for Israel and the Jewish community. He serves as community liaison for the Australian Jewish Association. Shmuel writes on Israel, antisemitism, Jewish affairs and Holocaust remembrance and is currently developing a podcast series titled “Israel, Our Story.”

The country must reflect urgently on where hostility to Israel and Jews could lead.
Perhaps Anthony Albanese should start with himself: by demonstrating that there are consequences for those who deliberately heat it up.
Jewish Australians should not dismiss the possibility that something even worse than Chanukah massacre could happen.
Questions must be asked about extremism, antisemitism and taxpayer funding.
The Albanese government said recognition rested on commitments from the Palestinian Authority. Australians are entitled to ask whether they have been fulfilled.