In the Media
News.com, 7 July 2026
YouTube defends video labelling Bondi shooting victim crisis actor
By Paul Karp
YouTube has said a video labelling the Bondi terrorist attack a false flag event and suggesting one of its victims was a crisis actor did not violate its policies because it questioned his motives but did not deny deaths had occurred.
Australian Jewish News, 7 July 2026
TikTok and YouTube appear at Royal Commission
By AJN staff
TikTok and YouTube appear, as the Royal Commission continues its focus on the dissemination of antisemitic content and other forms of hateful speech in the media.
The Courier, 30 June 2026
Jewish Australians threatened with firebombing, gassing
By Lucinda Garbutt-Young
Witnesses giving evidence to the anti-Semitism royal commission have endured violent threats - including calls for gassing - as social media monitoring struggles to keep up.
An online comment suggesting disused oil refineries be repurposed as "makeshift concentration camps" had been reported several times over the past week but still remained live, Dor Foundation chief executive Tahli Blicblau told the inquiry on Tuesday.
Australian Jewish News, 30 June 2026
Dor Foundation reports on antisemitism targeting witnesses
Dor Foundation CEO Tali Blicblau told the Royal Commission her foundation has been monitoring the response online to witnesses giving evidence during Hearing Block One of the commission’s work and prepared a report as evidence.
ABC News, 30 June 2026
Witnesses targeted in offensive online posts
By Phoebe Pin
Dor Foundation CEO Tahli Blicblau returned to the commission on Tuesday to discuss the organisation's analysis of offensive social media posts and comments against inquiry witnesses who appeared during the first hearing block.
The West Australian 30 June 2026
CEO of The Dor Foundation Tahli Blicblau says royal commission witnesses have been targeted
By Rhiannon Lewin and Amy Jackson
Witnesses who have given evidence into a hate inquiry sparked by the Bondi terror attack have since borne the brunt of hundreds of abusive online posts, which are largely still online.
Some of the hateful posts have included calls for the reinstation of Holocaust gas chambers.
CEO of The Dor Foundation Tahli Blicblau revealed on Tuesday at the Royal Commission on anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion that data collected by the not-for-profit organisation suggested a minimum of 26 witnesses in the first hearing block had been attacked online in 275 posts across seven platforms.
The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, AFR 30 June 2026
‘Biggest arena of antisemitism’: Jewish MP Josh Burns slams social media companies
Tahli Blicblau, the chief executive of the Dor Foundation, also gave evidence on Tuesday, her second appearance before the commission. She detailed a report her not-for-profit organisation wrote capturing some of the online abuse directed at witnesses after they had appeared at the commission.
Blicblau said witnesses from the first hearing block, which focused on the lived experience of Jewish Australians, had been “subjected to more targeted and abused online, at volume”. One witness was targeted by 225 posts.
The Australian, 30 June 2026
Witnesses targeted with antisemitic abuse after giving evidence, inquiry told
By James Dowling
Dor Foundation chief executive Tahli Blicblau has revealed how antisemites on social media have targeted past witnesses to the royal commission, collating hundreds of threats, including calls to kill Jews.
Ms Blicblau has previously given evidence and provided the inquiry during its proceedings with a tranche of evidence on social media hate directed towards the 74 witnesses in its first hearing block.
AFR, 30 June 2026
Antisemitism commission hears of online abuse aimed at witnesses
By Paul Karp
Tahli Blicblau, from the Dor Foundation, has returned to the antisemitism royal commission to discuss a report it wrote capturing some of the online abuse directed at other witnesses after they had appeared.
ABC, 29 June 2026
Bondi Beach terror attack royal commission to examine antisemitism in the media
By Phoebe Pin
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will resume public hearings, with a focus on the media industry.
The Australian, 27 May 2026
Holocaust denial, death threats directed at royal commission witnesses
By James Dowling
More than a thousand hateful or antisemitic messages have been directed at witnesses appearing before the Bondi royal commission this month, according to a Jewish non-profit which handed over its findings to authorities.
The Dor Foundation, whose chief executive Tahli Blicblau gave evidence to the Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Royal Commission, released on Wednesday an analysis of online hate directed at witnesses from the first hearing block, in which 74 individual witnesses testified.
ABC, 27 May 2026
Antisemitism victims abused online after giving evidence at royal commission into Bondi terror attack
By Phoebe Pin
Jewish people who have given evidence at a royal commission into antisemitism are facing a "dramatic increase" in online abuse, a report has found.
The Dor Foundation has revealed calls for executions and witnesses depicted as AI-generated animals.
Royal Commissioner Virginia Bell said the inquiry was "keeping a close eye" on the hateful messages.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May 2026
‘Evil dog, pig’: Jews targeted with vile abuse after appearing at royal commission
By Matthew Knott
Witnesses appearing before the royal commission into antisemitism have faced calls to be sent to concentration camps, been labelled demonic and told to burn in hell in abusive and often misogynist online posts that have alarmed royal commissioner Virginia Bell.
A campaign of systematic intimidation of witnesses at the Royal Commission into Bondi’s terror attack - including death threats - has been uncovered by a group saying it confirms the need to hold it.
Not-for-profit The Dor Foundation which aims to stamp out anti-Semitism and hate in Australia has catalogued more than 1000 anti-Semitic and abuse posts online, aimed in many cases at specific witnesses after they appeared.
The shocking harassment, intimidation and hate attacks on people who delivered personal testimony about living in fear at the first block of hearings earlier this month have been so extreme Commissioner Virginia Bell put those behind it on notice earlier this week.
She told Tuesday’s hearing a “close eye” was being kept on the material, with one instance under investigation by the Australian Federal Police.
The Australian Jewish News: Dor Foundation CEO warns online attacks confirm 'vital' need for inquiry
News.com.au, 27 May 2026
‘Execute all’: Royal Commission witnesses cop death threats and vile abuse
By Harrison Christian
Her dad died a hero, hurling objects at the Bondi gunmen to save those around him. But this young mum’s testimony has exposed a vile underbelly lurking in Australia.
Witnesses giving evidence to a royal commission examining antisemitism in Australia have been targeted with death threats and vile abuse, prompting a federal police investigation.
The royal commission, launched in response to the Bondi terror attack, featured testimony from Aussies with lived experience of antisemitism earlier this month.
But after the witnesses gave their evidence, more than 1,000 abusive posts and comments were directed at them online.
The revolting comments included calls to “execute all Zionists” and “kill all Jews”, branding witnesses as “cockroach”, “parasite”, and “rat”.
They also featured Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories, described the Bondi attack as a “false flag,” and called for “concentration camps” to be set up in Australia.
“I wish I could tell you I was surprised,” Dor Foundation CEO Tahli Blicblau, whose organisation catalogued the abuse, told news.com.au.
“Unfortunately we have been aware of this sort of conduct online — and increasingly offline — for a long time. It certainly has escalated,” Ms Blicblau said.
Never Again: The Fight Against Antisemitism
In early 2024, Josh Frydenberg led a documentary on the rise of antisemitism in Australia.
Click below to watch.
