Jewish Community Council Western Australia Director of Public Affairs Steve Lieblich said the BDS campaign had been successful.
"The boycotters' campaign is making anti-Semitism fashionable. It's prevalent everywhere and is a real concern for the Australian Jewish community," he said.
The ECAJ report found that hate speech increasingly originates from the internet, noting a multitude of cases, in particular one that swept Australian media in 2010 where a Perth man was sentenced to three years in prison in WA under its Criminal Code for circulating anti-Semitic videos.It states the man in question was "released from prison in January; he remains unrepentant, and gives voice to his anti-Semitism on his new website and in more videos."The report also includes comments from Robert Goot, President of ECAJ, in reference to violence against Jews in Europe earlier this year. He stated such incidents are "the culmination of a pervasive culture of incitement and hatred towards the Jewish people and Israel, the State of the Jewish people." While the 312 reported cases of anti-Semitism in 2014 are a 35% rise from the 231 cases reported last year, these statistics are markedly lower than the 962 incidents recorded in 2009.