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A Nation of Strangers: How a civic vacuum enabled antisemitism | Alex McDermott
40 minutes Posted Jun 25, 2026 at 10:30 am.
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👉 Key points:
🔹Civic decline and identity-based education have fuelled the rise of antisemitism in Australia.
🔹Antisemitism grows when Australians stop seeing each other first as equal citizens with shared civic obligations.
🔹Rebuilding civic knowledge and a common national identity strengthens resistance to antisemitism and social division.
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