Australia will outlaw the Nazi salute in public amid a surge of antisemitism after the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel and subsequent Israeli attacks on Gaza.
The move also follows the publication on Tuesday of a two-page open letter in major newspapers in which hundreds of prominent Australians, including former state leaders, corporate heavyweights and leading lawyers, denounced antisemitism.
The government will also ban the public display of the symbols of any proscribed terrorist organisation, a designation including Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic State, rather than singling out a flag associated with Isis, as previous planned.
The open letter, published on Tuesday, quotes a figure from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry stating that there has been a 482 per cent rise in antisemitic
