ALEX RYVCHIN: Lessons in leadership from Australia's antisemitism crisis
Fox News
Guest columnist Alex Ryvchin, CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, tells Americans they can learn from the mistakes of his country in failing to address anti-Jewish hate head on.
Alex Ryvchin is the CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the author of anew book on antisemitism, ‘The Seven Deadly Myths.’
Hundreds of Jewish artists, authors and other creatives were doxxed following the leak of a private Whatsapp group, allegedly by a New York Times journalist, which led to death threats, loss of employment and harassment of hundreds of Jewish Australians and their families. Jewish-owned businesses have been vandalized with antisemitic slogans and Hamas symbols, and some businesses have folded under the weight of coordinated boycott campaigns. The office of a Jewish member of parliament was firebombed and daubed with pro-Palestinian graffiti and a neighborhood in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the center of the city’s Jewish community, had cars set on fire and homes vandalized with anti-Israel messages in two separate attacks. For a community that began with the arrival of the very first convict ships from England in 1788, the lowest points in the community’s long and distinguished history were in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 atrocities and on Dec. 6 of this year.