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CATASTROPHIZING THE MELBOURNE SYNAGOGUE ATTACK

With our history of trauma, an act of terror can seem to prove that Jews are
wholly unsafe. That's a mistake – and a win for the terrorists
Dec 9, 2024, 3:03 PM
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Messages and flowers are seen attached to the fence at the Adass Israel
Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea on December 9, 2024. - Australian
police said on December 9 they are hunting for three suspects linked to a
Melbourne synagogue blaze, which authorities have designated as a terrorist act.
(Photo by Martin KEEP / AFP)


With the firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne, the Jewish world is
understandably concerned about the situation in Australia. Some have said
Australia is no longer safe for Jews. Comparisons have even been made to Europe
in the 1930s. Should Australian Jews such as myself be packing up and heading
for Israel?

No, not out of fear.

Australian Jews should be vigilant but not unduly fearful. Antisemitic acts
happen in Australia, as they do everywhere. But Australia is on the whole a
multicultural success story. It is one of the safest places in the world for
Jews, just as it is for other minority groups. When we fail to put threats in
their proper perspective, we succumb to unnecessary fear. And that, ultimately,
is the aim of terror attackers.

While antisemitism is on the rise, it is still relatively mild in Australia – in
terms of both numbers and severity. No one is ‘canceling’ me at my university
simply for being a Jewish professor (something that, with my name, would be hard
to conceal). Jews like me are still walking freely nearly everywhere in
Australia. We are still taking our kids to cheder at the local synagogue on
Sunday mornings. Security has increased, as has anxiety – to some extent, but
the sense of physical risk is not generally high among the many Jews I know.

RELATED: ‘Shattered’: Melbourne synagogue arson leaves community feeling
furious, and vulnerable

Yes, there has been a several-fold rise in verbal or — less common — physical
antisemitic encounters since October 2023 in Australia. (Assaults were 3% of the
total.) Jewish and other commentators on the situation are right to cite key
cases that should give us pause – slogans chanted at a rally, picketers at a
synagogue, etc.

But the rise in antisemitic incidents is a rise from a very low number to
another, still low number. This is critical context. Any rise is regrettable.
But rather than overreact, we must look at the whole picture. The rate of risk
remains mild, especially in comparison with other countries.

This may be little comfort to those who have been targeted. Here in Australia
any act of antisemitism is regrettable, of course, even if the rate is low. But
not every act is a sign of our worst histories returning. Many Jewish leaders,
both in Israel and Australia, have tended to catastrophize acts and statements
to the extreme. This is not only unwarranted, but it is self-defeating and even
dangerous.

Jews are easily triggered, of course, not only as a result of the Holocaust but
of the prior centuries of expulsions, forced conversions and mass killings. So
it is no surprise that antisemitic tropes plastered on signposts in major cities
of Australia, and – much worse – a firebombing of a synagogue can cause a
visceral response. Our history haunts us.

However, we must not let the extreme or the rare case guide our judgment. If we
do, then we cannot make mature political judgments. When Australia’s leaders
call for a peacemaking in Israel on a two-state plan, this is neither
repudiation of Israel nor fuel on the antisemitic fire.

Even more concerning perhaps, when we fail to put things in their proper
perspective we can succumb to excessive fear. Since October 2023, there has been
enough to worry about, enough to lament. All the more reason to avoid adding to
the psychological burden. Jews must not read every insult – nor, even, every
violent act – as a return to the age of the pogrom (a word now regularly invoked
by sympathetic commentators in Australia).

A single act of terror in Melbourne – which by global standards is at the low
end of the scale of severity – is easily misapplied as evidence that Jews are
wholly unsafe. This is untrue. And by distorting risks, we regrettably give
power to the very people who target Jews. The aim of a terrorist is to
terrorize. We lose when we let them.

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Ron Levy is a professor at the Law School of The Australian National University.
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