When more than 130 of Australia’s most senior legal minds affixed their names to a call for a royal commission into antisemitism following the Bondi terror attack, Robert Richter KC — one of the country’s most prominent criminal defence silks — was conspicuously not among them.
Richter, a human rights campaigner who is a fierce critic of the Israeli government’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, says he does not deny the existence or seriousness of antisemitism. But he argues that a royal commission — particularly one framed around defining antisemitism — is both premature and dangerous.
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