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We have a pretty big history and we actually for a very long time had the highest population of holocaust survivors outside of Israel itself. We never pogrommed them like Europe did, we never blocked them from country clubs like the US did, we were actually pretty damned chill with the antisemitism and even some of Australias federators were Jewish. When European Jewry fled the holocaust, we were one of the few western countries that actually let them in, and even issued "victims of oppression" visas from '38 until the outbreak of the war. Postwar we pretty much let anyone in.
So basically we're a western nation that isn't Institutionally Weird About The Jews and doesn't have a history of being Institutionally Weird About The Jews. Bibi's finding out the hard way that Israel the nation state and Jewish people are not considered interchangeable.