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To: Prime Minister Albanese, NSW Premier Chris Minns, and all Australian political leaders
ADD YOUR NAME ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
To Prime Minister Albanese, NSW Premier Chris Minns, and all Australian political leaders:
We call on you to show real leadership to keep our communities safe from antisemitism, violence and racism.
We urge you to stand strong against those who are weaponising the Bondi massacre to push bigotry, hatred and division.
Jewish safety and the safety of every other marginalised group go hand in hand.
Pitting Jewish safety against Palestinians, Muslims and migrant communities, and eroding all of our civil liberties, doesn't make Jews safer. It makes the real fight against antisemitism harder.
We cannot allow our collective grief and fear to be used as a political weapon to attack the Palestine solidarity movement or any other democratic movement.
We need to strengthen connections between communities and cultivate grassroots efforts to tackle racism and antisemitism at its core.
We urge you to adopt measures which will keep Jewish people, and all people, safe from violence and racism, including:
- Funding grassroots cross-cultural community initiatives to help form strong relationships of understanding and solidarity;
- Cracking down on big tech companies that profit from spreading online hate;
- Adopting and fully funding the Australian Human Rights Commission’s anti-racism framework;
- Fixing failing gun laws;
- Recognising and consulting with diverse Jewish voices;
- Protecting our rights to peacefully protest and speak out against injustice.
The path to safety is democratic and rooted in our shared community.
Why is this important?
On Sunday at Bondi we witnessed the appalling consequences of hatred and how it breeds radicalisation and violence. But as the Jewish community and the whole country grieved, some politicians went on the attack, exploiting a tragedy to sow division and pit our communities against each other.
Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce are attacking our Muslim and Palestinian friends, families and neighbours. Benjamin Netanyahu and Jillian Segal are pushing to erode our civil liberties and attacking those who peacefully protest genocide. Andrew Hastie and Josh Frydenberg are trying to score political points by attacking migrant communities.
But we all deserve to feel safe, no matter our religion or where we come from. We cannot allow our grief, fear and anger to be used as a political weapon to spread division and hate.
Jewish communities are beautifully diverse, culturally and politically. Antisemitism and racism flourish when the diversity of any community is erased. The far-right Israeli government does not speak for Jewish people in Australia and is not interested in our safety. Only we can create safety for each other.
We are asking all Australians to unite behind the call to end antisemitism, racism and gun violence in the wake of this unthinkable tragedy.
The only way to build lasting community strength and safety is by coming together.
There are a number of incredible partner organisations working with the Jewish Council to promote this campaign. Note that signatures collected on this page will be tallied together with those collected by our partners.
There are a number of incredible partner organisations working with the Jewish Council to promote this campaign. Note that signatures collected on this page will be tallied together with those collected by our partners.