The Nightly live news: Jewish leaders say community lives in fear after ‘failure’ to stop anti-Semitic attacks

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A US bankruptcy judge has stopped parody news site the Onion from buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars website, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids.

US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez rejected Jones’ claims that the auction was plagued by “collusion”, at the end of a two-day hearing in Houston.

But he said the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee who ran the auction made “a good-faith error” by quickly asking for final offers for Infowars instead of encouraging more back-and-forth bidding between the Onion and a company affiliated with Jones’ supplement-selling businesses, which was the runner-up.

“This should have been opened back up, and it should have been opened back up for everybody,” Lopez said. “It’s clear the trustee left the potential for a lot of money on the table.”

Lopez said neither of the two offers for Infowars were enough money given the scope of Jones’ debts, and told the trustee to work to resolve some of the disputes between the creditors before making a new attempt to sell Infowars.

- via Reuters

South Korean police have raided the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol as the investigation into the embattled leader’s failed attempt to impose martial law escalates.

Separately, Kim Yong-hyun, former defence minister and a close confidant of Yoon, attempted suicide at a detention centre where he is held after being arrested, a has told Justice Ministry official told a parliament hearing.

A presidential security service official confirmed to Reuters that police raided Yoon’s office. The Yonhap news agency said police investigators presented a search warrant that specified Yoon as the subject.

Yoon’s surprise December 3 martial law declaration plunged Asia’s fourth-largest economy into a constitutional crisis.

- with Reuters

Anthony Albanese has stood by his trip west to open a railway line while the community reeled from the arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue.

“I was on a plane to WA, we had a full schedule,” he said.

“For some time those appointments were in the diary. As PM my diary is very, very difficult.

“I would love to be able to...be in more than one place at once. Other political leaders weren’t there either on the weekend.”

Mr Albanese said he had engaged directly with the Jewish community in the wake of the attack.

Mr Albanese says there is ‘no change’ to the country’s stance on Israel, which has been criticised by some - including the Israeli Prime Minister - as contributing to the latest spate of anti-Semitic attacks.

“Australia’s position is that we support a two-state solution,” he said.

“I’ve been a very long supporter of a Palestinian state. But that cannot include Hamas.”

A reporter has asked the PM if he was ready to use the word “crisis”.

“This is quite horrific... quite shocking.”

So that’s a ‘no’ from Albo.

“It’s completely unacceptable and it needs to stop,” he said.

From The Nightly’s political reporter Ellen Ransley:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says anti-Semitism is “evil” and “needs to end” as he announced $8.5m to redevelop the Sydney Jewish museum.

He condemned the anti-Semitic graffiti attack in Woollahra, which came just days after a Melbourne synagogue was firebombed in a terror act, as “shameful acts of violence aimed at the Jewish community” that were aimed at “promoting fear”.

“We need to make sure that we learn the lessons of history which this museum shows us and to say, never again, but also to work across the board,” he said.

Mr Albanese says the synagogue attack in Melbourne “sends shivers down the spine of all Australians”.

“We’re a tolerant country... and we will work with all authorities to make sure that the perpetrators of these crimes will be brought to justice.”

He says the money is not an election promise and was already planned before the latest attacks.

The Prime Minister is holding a press conference as we speak, denouncing the latest attacks.

“We need an end to anti-Semitism,” he said.

“These attacks are completely abhorrent to who we are as Australians.

“Holocaust survivors came to Aust because we are a tolerant country.

“I unequivocally condemn these shameful acts of violence aimed at the Jewish community.”