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321: Alex Ryvchin: My home was firebombed

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Alex Ryvchin – CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Alex joined Brendan to discuss the attacks on his family by anti-Semites, the surge in Jew hatred in Australia since the 7 October pogrom, and why anti-Zionism can’t be separated from anti-Semitism.

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0:00.0

I was targeted, my family were targeted in our homes.

0:07.0

Quite early one morning, I think there's about five in the morning.

0:10.0

My wife says to me our former homeless here, our old house got here.

0:14.0

And she's showing me this footage, basically showing this kind of inferno right in front of our old house.

0:21.6

And then a car in the driveway of the joining property,

0:25.3

they daugged it with us.

0:26.2

You said, fuck the Jews on one side, fuck is wrong now,

0:28.4

which I thought was very poetic because it's like two sides to the same coin

0:31.2

and two sides of the same car.

0:32.8

This is the reality of life in Australia right now.

0:38.4

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest

0:43.3

this week, Alex, welcome to the show.

0:46.4

Thank you so much.

0:47.1

Great to chat again, Brendan.

0:48.6

So good to have you on.

0:49.9

As you know, I've been an admirer of your campaigning for a long time.

0:55.1

And some listeners will know that you are co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jury,

1:01.3

which means that you spend your time advocating on behalf of Australia's 120,000 Jews.

1:08.5

And that means that over the past 16 or 17 months you've found yourself at the

1:13.5

front line of a really sometimes quite ugly battle because Australia like other Western countries

1:20.5

has found itself in the grip of a kind of israelophobia and outright anti-Semitism since the events of 7th of October

1:28.8

2023.

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