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Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Robert Goot said Israel’s defence of its citizens had released an outpouring of antagonism ” ... and open Jew hatred, the likes of which have not been seen in Europe since the early 1930s”.“But what would the world have Israel do?” he told the rally. “Israel, like any other responsible nation, must defend its citizens while taking care of innocents in harm’s way. “No one would put up with it and nor should Israel.” Mr Goot said Israel had taken unprecedented steps to minimise civilian casualties

A Sydney woman was forced to defend herself after someone confronted her about the Islam symbol-bearing bands her three sons wore across their faces.The same symbols have been brandished by the radical Islamist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).