Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

* The driver of a vehicle passing synagogue in Sydney‘s eastern suburbs yelled ―fucking
Jews‖ at synagogue personnel.
* Many examples of occupants of vehicles passing synagogues in Melbourne and Sydney
abusing and/or harassing congregants and synagogue personnel.
* Stall holders selling Israeli products in Perth harassed by antisemite and accused of being
Mossad operatives because ―every Jew is expected to look after another Jew first‖.
* Marchers in central Sydney chanted ―Bomb Bush and the Jews‖.
* Antisemitic posters displayed at pro-Hamas rallies in central Sydney, Melbourne, Perth
and Fremantle.
* Jewish man in suburban street abused by passing motorist ―Go back to Israel, you filthy
fucking Jew, Heil Hitler‖.
* A man yelled abuse accusing Jews of killing Jesus at congregants entering synagogue in
Sydney‘s eastern suburbs.
* Women entering kosher venue in Sydney abused ―Dirty fucking Jews‖ by passing
pedestrian.
* Men walking past synagogue in Sydney‘s eastern suburbs yelled ―Fucking Kikes‖ at rabbi.
* Driver of a car yelled ―Heil Hitler‖ as passing synagogue in Perth.
* Visitors to Jewish organisations in Adelaide made antisemitic comments.
* Antisemitic harassment of rabbi outside synagogue in Gold Coast.
3.4 Telephone Intimidation and Hate Mail
Reports of threats conveyed to the Jewish community through telephone calls or through the
mail were received at a rate of just over eighty percent of the average over the previous
nineteen years.
Telephone calls, which often contained extreme antisemitic abuse, were recorded at the
second highest rate in seven years. Incidents of hate mail were recorded at the highest rate
in six years, with abusive and threatening mail continued to be received at private homes and
by Jewish institutions. There are some letter writers who have mailed the same or similar
antisemitic letters to different recipients over a long period of time, whose activities are
supplemented by a number of people who write letters often or on specific issues.
In the year in review, a number of the letters made some reference to events in the Middle
East as the pretext for writing, but all letters included in the database made specific anti-
Jewish comments.
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