A research study conducted by Sydney Uni academics Emeritus Prof Suzanne Rutland and Zehavit Gross regarding religious education in state schools in Sydney and Melbourne, has incidentally found that hundreds of Jewish students in such schools are experiencing anti-Semitism and are afraid to report it to their parents for fear of further unpleasant consequences.Jewish Australian leaders expressed satisfaction with Australias distancing itself from the anti-Israeli settlements communique, issued at the Paris conference regarding peace between Israel and the Palestinians, a stance which was criticized, together with the UK, by a senior Palestinian official.A cover drawing on The Spectator Australia magazine, depicting Pres Barrack Obama dressed in a concentration camp inmate uniform and the number 2334 of the UN Security Council anti-Israeli settlements resolution tattooed on his arm, was fiercely criticized by Australian Holocaust survivors and the local Bnai Briths Anti-Defamation Commission
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