The Australian Jewish News, 4 May 2026

Thousands join national storytelling night

By Bruce Hill

About 2000 Australians joined a national storytelling event on antisemitism ahead of Royal Commission submissions.

The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Courier Mail, The Advertiser | 4 MAY 2026

The Spaces Between the Words Tell the Real Story

I was trained to read the spaces. Here's what I see.

Today, for the first time, the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will hear from Jewish Australians about the lives they have been living. And, as with its interim report released last week, the words that remain unsaid will tell us as much as the words themselves.

More than 5,700 Australians have already submitted to the Commission. Nearly 2,000 of those in the past week alone. More than 1,000 submitters are not Jewish, meaning this is not only a community crying out, but a country beginning to reckon with what it has allowed to happen. Their testimonies span education, employment, the arts, sport, health and online life. Together they describe not a single catastrophic event, but a slow, corrosive erosion. Quiet prejudice that became hurtful words, then harmful actions, then deadly violence on a beach on a Sunday evening at a festival of light.

That is the story the hearings will begin to tell. And it is the reason the interim report, released just days ago, matters as much as it does.

PRESS RELEASE | JOINT STATEMENT | 3 MAY 2026

JEWISH AUSTRALIANS TO SPEAK AS ROYAL COMMISSION OPENS

The Dor Foundation, ECAJ, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, JCCV, Zionist Federation of Australia, NCJWA, AIJAC

The lesson of history is that hatred, left unchallenged, does not stop at speech and ends in violence. The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion was established in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil, but what the Commission will hear over the coming fortnight is not only about that day, but the climate that has been building long before Bondi.

The Nightly | 1 MAY 2026

LATIKA M BOURKE: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged to act after interim Bondi terror attack report

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing renewed pressure to move beyond words and act on anti-Semitism following a royal commission interim report into the Bondi terror attack.

PRESS RELEASE, 30 April 2026

The Dor Foundation welcomes Royal Commission

The Dor Foundation

Australia’s counter-terrorism architecture needs reform - the Commission has shown us where to start

The Dor Foundation today welcomed the release of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion's interim report and called on government to implement its recommendations without delay.

The Australian Jewish News, 30 April 2026

An opportunity and responsibility for every Jew

By Bruce Hill

Jewish households across Australia are being invited to open their doors this Sunday night for a National Night of Storytelling, a coordinated effort to encourage community members to submit their personal experiences of antisemitism to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

The Guardian | 30 April 2026

Former counter-terror intelligence chief and anti-hate CEO backs royal commission report

Tahli Blicblau – the CEO of the Dor Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organisation focused on strengthening Australia’s response to antisemitism and hate – said the interim royal commission report represented an important “first chapter” for governments to act on.

The Australian Jewish News, 19 March 2026

Ensuring that memory becomes responsibility

By Tahli Blicblau

My story is unremarkable.

I grew up in a golden age in this sunburnt country. Perhaps the most fortunate era for Jews across all time and space. And yet, antisemitism has been ever-present. It has influenced every major life-choice I have made.

The Australian, 20 December 2025

Start with schools, unis to address the failure of collective leadership in the lead-up to Bondi shootings

By Jennifer Westacott AC, Guardian - The Dor Foundation

When I visited Bondi Beach on Wednesday with my Jewish friends, it was a place of unspeakable sorrow and grief. A place that had witnessed cruelty and cowardice at the same time as bravery and courage. Acts of astonishing sacrifice and selflessness.

As someone who has spoken out and acted against the rise of anti-Semitism, it was a numbing and sickening experience. There has been and will continue to be much-needed reflection. For me, as I said in a recent speech, we have seen a failure of collective leadership. Now we need collective action. We walked past the placards at the weekly protests calling for the globalisation of the intifada. On Sunday night we saw what that looks like. We walked past the signs that called for Jewish Australians to be harmed – actually killed. We used the cloak of free speech to justify the acceptance of anti-Semitism, tolerating placards and chants like “from the river to the sea” – in other words, the annihilation of the Jewish state.

SMH, 17 December 2025

‘You have failed us’: Josh Frydenberg’s full speech at Bondi memorial

By The Hon. Josh Frydenberg

Thank you, everyone, for being here.

I’m here to pay my respects to the souls of 15 innocent people, who have lost their life in the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia’s history. In the greatest loss of Jewish life since October 7 anywhere around the world outside the state of Israel.

Rabbis, Holocaust survivors and the beautiful 10-year-old Matilda. Her parents said they gave her that name because it was the most Australian name they knew.

Australian Jewish News, 4 December 2025

Antisemitism Co-Lab builds community response

By Carly Adno

A powerful Antisemitism Co-Lab took place over two days in Sydney this week, bringing together leaders and partners of the Jewish community for a series of talks and workshops focused on strengthening unified action against antisemitism.

Organised by Australian Jewish Funders (AJF) and The Dor Foundation, the conference saw funders, activists and leaders from 80 organisations gathered in one room, creating a safe space for shared purpose and collaboration.

Over two days, attendees with diverse perspectives workshopped constructive, evidence-based approaches to address rising antisemitism, supported by a framework for collective action.

The Australian, 1 December 2025

Why my fight against anti-Semitism is deeply personal

By Jennifer Westacott AC, Guardian - The Dor Foundation

In May 2024, I wrote an opinion piece in this newspaper in my capacity as chancellor of Western Sydney University about the rise of anti-Semitism.

I did this as protests and encampments raged across our universities, driven in many cases by profound hatred and anti-Semitism. As Jewish students and academics felt increasingly afraid to step on to a university campus, I felt the need to speak out.

I needed to remind people that universities must be places of enlightenment and knowledge, that universities are places where there is a contest of ideas, and they can never be places of fear and intimidation. That free speech is a profoundly different concept to hate speech, and that hate speech and anti-Semitism or any other form of racism has no place in Australian universities or society.

I wasn’t sure what impact my opinion piece would have, if any. But by that afternoon I had received hundreds of emails and many, many text messages. These were messages of support, of sadness, of fear and of hope.

The Australian, 13 September 2025

We Must Not Allow Charlie Kirk's Death To Become Our Reality

By The Hon. Josh Frydenberg

Political violence is not new.

In the 1960s US President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King all died from an assassin's bullet.

But what is different today is the mainstreaming of political violence.

The growing belief in western liberal democracies that certain political ideas and political personalities pose such a threat that violence is justified.

The murder of Christian conservative Charlie Kirk appears to be the latest tragic example. It follows the most recent killing of the United Health Care CEO in New York and two Israeli Embassy staff in Washington.

In fact this violent frenzy was a trend Kirk himself had previously identified, citing a Network Contagion Research Institute survey in a post on X: "Assassination culture is spreading on the left. 48% of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and 55% said the same about Donald Trump ".

But what is also deeply disturbing is that this toxic and dangerous political climate in the United States is manifesting itself here in Australia.

Kirk's death may be an international act but it has domestic implications. It's our wake up call.

The Australian, 7 July 2025

So, we’ve Melbournised the Intifada. Now what?

By Tahli Blicblau, CEO - The Dor Foundation

On Thursday, social media erupted with calls to boycott a Melbourne restaurant – not for its food or service, but because its owner was linked to the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Activists widely shared the Hardware Lane address, accompanied by calls for protest and more.

By Friday night, that protest had turned violent. A mob stormed the restaurant, hurling chairs, food and glassware and parroting the disgraceful chants heard at the Glastonbury music festival. That same night, a 150-year-old Melbourne synagogue was torched while families ate a Sabbath meal inside.

Every week, protesters march through the streets of Melbourne calling for intifada and revolution, and this is amplified online. Who could be surprised that calls for uprising would lead to actual uprising? These acts have had no impact on Israeli policy, but they have intensified feelings of anxiety and exclusion within an Australian minority already feeling besieged.

14 March 2025

CEO Update

A CARAVAN LOAD OF CRACKS IN OUR COHESION

This week’s news represents a collision of my two worlds. My professional background in countering organised crime and terrorism, with my calling to The Dor Foundation, to use those skills to prevent antisemitism and hate and help build a more cohesive Australia.

Sky News, 20 February 2025

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The Hon. Josh Frydenberg address at the Sky News Antisemitism Summit

The Australian Jewish News, 16 February 2025

New foundation launches to combat antisemitism

By Bruce Hill

A new national organisation, The Dor Foundation, has been established to combat antisemitism and hate in Australia.

Its initial focus will be on university campuses and the online space.

The Foundation, which has just launched with charitable status, brings together prominent leaders from business, government and the not-for-profit sectors under the chairmanship of former Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

The Australian Online, 15 February 2025

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Fighting hate, building hope: The Dor Foundation's mission for a united Australia

The Australian, 15 February 2025

Dor Foundation: From the ashes comes a plan to tackle the growing scourge of antisemitism

By Cameron Stewart

Standing for the first time amidst the burnt-out ruins of the Melbourne synagogue firebombed in a terror attack, Josh Frydenberg shakes his head in sorrow and anger. Australia “must no longer tolerate the intolerant”, says the former treasurer. “This is not about what is happening in the Middle East, it’s about what is happening in Australia, it’s about the type of society we are.”

Australian Financial Review, 15 February 2025

Australian Jewish leaders to raise millions to fight antisemitism

By Patrick Durkin
BOSS Deputy Editor

A group of wealthy and influential Jewish leaders led by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg and his supporters is launching a fundraising vehicle expected to raise millions to fight antisemitism, including in schools and universities.

Mr Frydenberg, who is the chairman of Goldman Sachs in Australia, has warned that anti-Jewish hatred has spiralled “out of control”. He will chair the newly created Dor Foundation, a not-for-profit group to be led by the former NSW Crime Commission director Tahli Blicblau.