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‘Terrifying’: political candidate violently abused and schoolboy thrown into bin, antisemitism royal commission hears

On the third day of Australia's Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, witness Joshua Kirsh—an independent candidate for the New South Wales upper house—testified about vitriolic online antisemitic abuse targeting his campaign and a 2019 gun threat against a Jewish student Purim event he helped organize. Another witness, identified only as AAT, described his 13-year-old son's severe antisemitic bullying at school, including being thrown into a garbage bin and subjected to Nazi salutes, with harassment continuing at the boy's new school; meanwhile, a man wearing an antisemitic T-shirt was removed and arrested outside the Sydney hearings.