In a hushed room, personal testimonies reveal Australia’s troubling rise in antisemitism

This week, Jewish Australians have spoken about how displays of hostility, discrimination and the Bondi terror attack have changed their lives and their feelings about their place in the community

The narrow benches of the public gallery are filled. They have come from all over to offer their testimony, to support friends, to give and receive comfort. They come too, to listen.

This, in this small, quiet room, is Australia’s attempt to reckon with the violent modern manifestation of an ancient bigotry.