The Nightly, The West Australian 27 May 2026

Federal probe launched after vile antisemitic abuse targets royal commission witnesses online

By Caitlin Vinci

A Federal investigation has been launched after witnesses giving evidence to the royal commission on antisemitism were targeted in what has been described as a campaign of online abuse, harassment, and intimidation.

The royal commission heard evidence between May 4 and 14 from experts, community leaders, and witnesses with lived experience of antisemitism.

Online monitoring by the Dor Foundation immediately identified extreme antisemitic responses targeting those who testified.

Daily Telegraph Exclusive: The Dor Foundation uncovers AI-generated personas spreading antisemitic content online, exposing emerging tactics used to normalise and amplify hate.

Dor CEO Tahli Blicblau talks about the Royal Commission and how antisemitism is affecting young Australians.

ECAJ YouTube, 12 May 2026

CEO of the Dor Foundation Tahli Blicblau addressing the Royal Commission.

The Australian, 11 May 2026

‘No friends left’: Jewish teen’s heartbreaking words after school kids targeted him with anti-Semitic abuse on Minecraft

By Clareese Packer and Samina Rakhshani

A Jewish teenager told his parents “I have no friends left” after kids from his school hurled anti-Semitic abuse at him while they played the popular online game Minecraft, a hate inquiry was told.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May 2026

‘Is this 2023 Australia, or 1933 Berlin?’ Deborah Conway stunned by pro-Palestinian protesters

By James Dowling

Singer-songwriter Deborah Conway has been yelled and hissed at during her concerts and writers’ festivals because of her support for Israel, the Royal Commission into Antisemitism has heard, while another musician feared for his safety after the doxxing of a Jewish WhatsApp group.

The Australian, 11 May 2026

Jewish artists tell royal commission how boycott campaigns and doxxing stunted careers

By James Dowling

Most Australians don’t recognise antisemitic tropes despite years of escalating violence against the Jewish community, the royal commission has been told, as Jewish artists detailed boycott campaigns that stunted their careers.

The Guarian, 11 May 2026

Jewish musicians faced abuse over Zionist beliefs, royal commission toldBy Angus Dalton and Alexandra Smith

Deborah Conway describes anti-Zionism as a ‘genocidal impulse’ as inquiry hears how Jews are targeted with Nazi comparisons

WA Today, 11 May 2026

As it happened: Nine witnesses set to give evidence on day six of the hearings

By Angus Dalton and Alexandra Smith

Antisemitic incidents are going under-reported, said Tahli Blicblau, chief executive of anti-hate organisation The Dor Foundation.

Australian Jewish News, 11 May 2026

‘No one in this whole sorry story has been held accountable’

By AJN Staff

Hearing block one continues this week, with brave community members coming forward to share their stories.

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.