‘Ideology remains with us': Anti-Israel movement continues to rage in Australia
'We had a summer of horrific incidences, as you mentioned there … a lot of people treated that as the end of the antisemitic crisis in this country,' Mr Ryvchin told Sky News Australia.
'The movement against Israel, and against the Jewish community, did not go away, and it continued to advocate, it continued to organise.
'The ideology remains with us.'
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