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[quote=Anonymous]Just wanted to point out that the antisemitism issue in Europe is primarily due to a combination of ancient institutional antisemitism (which, ironically enough, is mostly found among the liberal European left these days, partly because of the Israel/Palestine issue) and the growing Muslim population.

It's far less of an issue in Australia, being an Anglo country, as well as a country as far away from Israel/Palestine as you can get.

Australia is one of the most "secular" countries with one of the lowest churchgoing attendance rates in the world. But Australia does not have a strict separation of church and state, for the state does fund religious schools (almost always of traditional Anglican/Presbyterian/Catholic backgrounds). But these schools aren't evangelical for so few Australians are. And secular state schools will often still celebrate Christian holidays like Christmas with pageants and local councils will fund parades and festivals that are clearly labelled as "Christmas" festivals. But, as you may infer, they will be very secularized celebrations and hardly religious as so few Australians are active Christians beyond a nominally cultural label.

I would not worry about being a Jewish family in Perth. The worst that can happen will be running into the odd person or Muslim immigrant angry about the Israel/Palestine situation. You will be exposed to the Christian holidays in schools and in public, but that's about it. We have Jewish friends in Australia and they partake in the Christmas lunches and Christmas parties without any issues (one of our friends even described it as more like American Thanksgiving - a general season of cheer and fellowship rather than religion). [/quote]

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