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Ep.70 Inside Australia’s Antisemitism Reckoning: Peter Wertheim on the Fight for the Country’s Soul

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In one of the most powerful and revealing conversations yet on the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, ECAJ Co-CEO Peter Wertheim joins Adam Slonim and Gareth Narunsky to discuss what the Commission is uncovering about modern Australia. From searing testimony of fear, exclusion and trauma, to the role of universities, media, social media radicalisation, Islamist extremism and the anti-Israel far left, Wertheim argues that the country is confronting not isolated incidents, but a deeper cultural and institutional crisis. The discussion explores the emotional intelligence of the Commission itself, the struggle to explain Jewish peoplehood and Zionism to non-Jewish Australia, the contested boundaries between criticism of Israel and antisemitism, and whether Australia can push hatred back to the fringes before it becomes normalised in mainstream society.

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