The question this report poses is whether Australia’s progressive institutions are capable of the honest reckoning required to restore their moral credibility. That will require acknowledging that antisemitism on the left has become, in many quarters, the norm. It will require recognising that opposing racism means opposing all racism, even when it emerges from one’s own political community. And it will require understanding that defending Jewish Australians’ right to participate as equals is not a partisan position but a basic requirement of liberal democratic citizenship.
Philip Mendes has provided an essential service by documenting this crisis with scholarly rigour and moral clarity. Now the rest of us must decide whether we have the courage to act on his findings.