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Australian Jewish community representatives report about the high level of anti-Semitism.

Representatives of the Australian Jewish community report the level of anti-Semitism is the highest during the last 57 years.
The President of the Council of Australian Jews Jeremy Jones has said that 593 reports on the facts of anti-Semitism, ranging from physical and moral abuse and phone threats to firebombs thrown into synagogue and community centers, have already been received. Jones has said that he constantly receives the information about the raise of anti-Semitism from the members of the local Jewish community consisting of more than 120,000 people. "What really makes us worried is the number of press reports: from political debates all the way to anti-Semitic stereotypes. We feel very sorry that criminals are never caught and never persecuted", he adds.
He has said that dozens groups are involved into the crimes of hatred. The principal ones are the Australian Human Rights League, Adelaide Institute, neo-Nazi groups.
The activity of Frederick Toben, an Australian historian, as well as that of a David Irwing, a British historian, both of them refuse the existence of the Holocaust, could serve a good example. In September, Jones

Источник: Jewish.ru