Alex Dafner Yiddish report: A planned knife attack on Jewish students wearing kippah at Sydney Uni 2.6.2019

Australian Jewish leaders congratulated the just returned to power Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the new leader of the Labor Party Anthony Albanese and expressed their hope to the latter, that he prevent his party from following in the footsteps of its counterpart in Britain, as regards the growth of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel elements in his party. A planned knife attack on Jewish students wearing the kippah at the University of Sydney was avoided, when the potential perpetrator was arrested for an earlier knife attack on his neighbour, and at his trial revealed his plan to attack the Jewish students at the University, as revenge for what he claimed were Jewish crimes against Palestinians. A conference on Holocaust education held in Melbourne, in partnership with the Holocaust Yad Vashem Museum and education program in Jerusalem, attracted some 150 educators and 300 Jewish community leaders and members of the public, and heard the funders John and Paula Gandel, the State Premier Daniel Andrews, the director of education at Yad Vashem Dr Eyal Kaminska, as well as 11 Holocaust survivors, talk about the importance of Holocaust education for future generations.

Source: SBS