Commentary Many Australians assume that antisemitism—the hatred of Jews—is a cloud seldom casting a shadow over our landscape. And we can be thankful that in this country, attacks on synagogues, assaults on Jewish people, or vandalised Jewish cemeteries are rare occurrences. But the spectre of antisemitism still stalks the land. Physical assaults and verbal slurs do still occur here, but increasingly, antisemitism in Australia take more subtle and nuanced forms that can easily be missed. And that should come as no surprise. Long a part of human history, antisemitism has never taken just one form; it appears in different forms, different mutations, and with different motivations. Even making allegations about opinions held by a Jewish academic could be antisemitic. It sounds arcane, but Joel Katzav, a lecturer at the University of Queensland (UQ), has recently lodged a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission about the university’s handling of an …