Two disappointing cases of antisemitic and neo-Nazi behavior by prominent Australians Yiddish Report 22.11.2020

SBS Yiddish report with Alex Dafner The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has elected Dr Andre Oboler, as its new President to replace the retiring Jennifer Hupert who held the position for the past six years. Two disappointing cases of antisemitic and neo-Nazi behaviour by prominent Australians, one a heart surgeon, the other a TV celebrity chef, were reported last week, with the former issuing an unreserved apology to those involved and the Jewish community in general. The Australian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) condemned the University of Sydney’s Student Representative Council for repeating the antisemitic behaviour for which the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was suspended for recently, by their passing a motion defending the former UK Labour leader. The Gandel Philanthropy’s Australian Yad Vashem Foundation was awarded the Australian Bolder Philanthropy Award for their Holocaust Education Program, which funds 35 teachers annually to complete an intensive course about the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and then enables them to set-up Holocaust Education projects in schools back in Australia.

Source: SBS