Australia Calls Royal Commission After Bondi Terror Attack

Australia will establish a national Royal Commission into antisemitism, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday, bowing to widespread pressure following the country’s worst terrorist attack left 15 dead at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

The decision follows weeks of growing pressure on Albanese’s center-left Labor government from Jewish community leaders, senior executives, sections of the media and the opposition to call a Royal Commission in the wake of the massacre.