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Inquiry Recommends Increased Policing For Jewish Events

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A report recommends an urgent review of counterterrorism agencies in Australia. An inquiry has issued 14 total recommendations intended to ensure a specific type of incident never happens again. The BBC World Service confirmed there are 14 recommendations in total aimed at ensuring the event never happens again. An interim report from the Australian Royal Commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion found a Jewish security group warned New South Wales Police of a high threat rating. The group sent a risk assessment ahead of the December 14 Hanukkah by the Sea event, warning a terror attack against the state's Jewish community was likely. New South Wales Police stated the Eastern Suburbs Command received no specific request for dedicated police resources, despite acknowledging a request for a police presence.

A report recommends an urgent review of counterterrorism agencies in Australia. An inquiry has issued 14 total recommendations intended to ensure a specific type of incident never happens again. The BBC World Service confirmed there are 14 recommendations in total aimed at ensuring the event never happens again. An interim report from the Australian Royal Commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion found a Jewish security group warned New South Wales Police of a high threat rating. The group sent a risk assessment ahead of the December 14 Hanukkah by the Sea event, warning a terror attack against the state's Jewish community was likely. New South Wales Police stated the Eastern Suburbs Command received no specific request for dedicated police resources, despite acknowledging a request for a police presence. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated the report would help people understand the event. A Royal Commission into Antisemitism in Australia has released initial recommendations for increased policing at high-risk Jewish events. The inquiry follows a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach last December that killed 15 people celebrating Hanukkah. Linda Ben-Manachae, president of the National Council of Jewish Women Australia, stated the incident was Australia's deadliest mass shooting in 30 years. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns stated the state government takes responsibility for failing to protect victims during the Bondi Beach attack in December. Public hearings for the inquiry are scheduled to begin next week, featuring witnesses with firsthand experience of antisemitism.

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ABC NewsRadio AU

“We do know that this report recommends that there be an urgent review of counterterrorism agencies. What does this report tell us about how equipped and resourced those agencies were at the time of the Bondi terror attack?”

ABC NewsRadio AU

“We do know this report recommends that there be an urgent review of counterterrorism agencies. It suggests that in the aftermath of the Islamic State, a decade ago... there's been a period of decline in both the the resources of these...”

ABC NewsRadio AU

“there needs to be a recalibration to meet the current threat. That includes for example, for funding a full-time comment.”

WBUR Boston

“An Australian inquiry into an anti-Semitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach has recommended that the authorities should bolster security at Jewish events, 15 people were killed when two gunmen opened fire.”

BBC WS backup

“An Australian inquiry into an anti-Semitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach has recommended that the authorities should bolster security at Jewish events. Fifteen people were killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration in December.”

CNA938 Singapore

“An inquiry was launched three weeks after two gunmen opened fire during a Jewish event killing 15 people. The interim report has made 14 recommendations and this includes bolstering”

CNA938 Singapore

“The interim report has made 14 recommendations and this includes bolstering... it outlined recommendations to strengthen Australia's counter-terrorism capabilities.”

WNYC 93.9 FM

“Bondi Beach has recommended the authorities should bolster security at Jewish events.”

BBC WS backup

“to say that the Jewish community had been warning the Australian government.”

BBC WS backup

“the Jewish community had been warning the Australian government. indeed, would have impeded the ability of law enforcement to respond to it.”

BBC World Service

“it said it was likely in the police that they couldn't provide dedicated officers but would send patrols to check in and monitor the event.”

ABC NewsRadio AU

“There's a clear recommendation that that support, particularly from New South Wales or state-based police services, needs to be extended to more Jewish events.”

ABC NewsRadio AU

“They have raised questions about counter-terrorism funding around coordination, around the assessment in specific of this event but those questions have said, look, we don't yet have the answers to”

BBC World Service

“against Jewish Australians has continued if not risen.”

BBC WS

“The report today was handed down by the Commissioner Virginia Bell who did warn that the current war being waged against Iran by Israel and America is likely to have an increase at the risk of attacks directed at the Australian Jewish community.”

BBC World Service

“The report today was handed down by the Commissioner Virginia Bell, who did warn that the current war being waged against Iran by Israel and America is likely to have an increase at the risk of attacks directed at the Australian Jewish community.”

WAMU 88.5 DC

“The daily abuse and particularly online abuse, vitriol, hate speech against Jewish Australians has continued if not risen.”

WBUR Boston

“The report today was handed down by the Commissioner Virginia Bell who did warn that the current war being waged against Iran by Israel and America is likely to have an increase at the risk of attacks directed at the Australian Jewish community.”

BBC World Service

“It's the responsibility of government to make sure that social cohesion is maintained throughout everything that happens in the world and that we worry about out.”

ABC NewsRadio AU

“And so please make safeguarding the Jewish community for now. It is the safeguarding the Jewish community going forward. But it is also safeguarding what we in Australia value, which is the safety and welcome of any group on the basis of their faith or their ethnicity or sexuality.”

WBUR Boston

“I do think that it is a bit of a red herring to think that what is going on overseas is going to either lessen or heighten the risk to Jewish Australians”

BBC World Service

“Commissioner Virginia Bell, who did warn that the current war being waged against Iran by Israel and America is likely to have an increase at the risk of attacks directed at the Australian Jewish community.”

WAMU 88.5 DC

“Commissioner Virginia Bell, who did warn that the current war being waged against Iran by Israel and America is likely to have an increase at the risk of attacks directed at the Australian Jewish community.”

KQED FM

“The report today was handed down by the Commissioner Virginia Bell who did warn that the current war being waged against Iran by Israel and America.”

BBC World Service

“It's the responsibility of government to make sure that social cohesion is maintained throughout everything that happens in the world”

WAMU 88.5 DC

“It's the responsibility of government to make sure that social cohesion is maintained throughout everything that happens in the world and that we worry about our patch of turf.”

BBC WS backup

“overseas conflicts always contribute to spikes in violence against communities with time. Jewish women Australia.”

ABC NewsRadio AU

“The Royal Commission really goes to the heart of keeping community safe, the Jewish community safe, but that has implications for all communities as well.”

BBC WS backup

“could intensify again. An Australian an inquiry has said that a ju-”

WBUR Boston

“An Australian inquiry has said that a Jewish group warned of a terrorist attack before last year's anti-Semitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach.”

ABC NewsRadio AU

“how to make sure that home affairs has the resources it needs. Certainly in my conversations to date with people, and from home affairs, from AFP, from ASIO, they have, you know, I've asked them straight out”

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