Some 250 mayors and other local officials and community leaders from across Australia gathered in Gold Coast, Queensland, from Sept. 3 to 5 for the Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism.

Addressing attendees, Australian special envoy for antisemitism Jillian Segal said that Jew-hatred is an “existential threat to democracy.”

Segal said that Jew-hatred “was not ‘creeping in’ to Australian communities but was ‘well and truly with us,'” ABC News (Australia) reported.

“This threatens not just the Jews,” the envoy said, “but it absolutely tears at our social cohesion, and it tears at our democracy and the future for our children and our country.”

Tom Tate, the Gold Coast mayor, led the event, which organizers said is “the first of its kind” in the country, and a “local led-initi

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