BREAKING: The Australian Federal Police Commissioner, who said the Bondi attack was “not religiously motivated”, stopped short of saying Jews are safer in Australia now than before the radical Islamic Bondi terrorist attack. Asked directly whether Jews are safer than they were on 14 December, Krissy Barrett would not say yes. Pressed again, she said the outlook is “very volatile, and that’s the truth of it. We have seen a rise in antisemitism.” Looking to 2027, she expects the environment to “continue to be complex”. That is the nation’s top cop, a year after 15 people were murdered at a Hanukkah gathering at Bondi, still refusing to claim the community is safer. In the same interview with The Australian she said Islamic fundamentalism remains the biggest terror risk over the next year. The local threat from Hamas supporters is not declining. The Iran war, she said, is giving people “causes or motivations to latch on to”. She also flagged angry, isolated young boys looking for meaning as a growing part of the caseload. She has ordered a second review of AFP files on hate preachers, after lawyers coached them on “what they can say to just scrape under the criminal threshold”. She wants prosecutions. She has not delivered them. On the royal commission she expects Virginia Bell’s findings to be “highly contested”, with “very different views”. She would not say the AFP will endorse every recommendation. She denied advising Albanese against a royal commission, after the Prime Minister spent weeks citing “actual experts” while resisting one. She also would not say whether Pauline Hanson’s comments on Islam make Australians less safe. What she would say is that respectful debate is “waning”, the extremes are getting more extreme, and that makes the AFP’s job harder. So the record is this. After Bondi she told the country the killers had aligned with a terrorist organisation, “not a religion”. Ten months on she still will not say Jews are safer, still names Islamic fundamentalism as the lead threat, and still has hate preachers sitting just under the criminal line. Jews were told the threat was not religious. They are now being told the threat is volatile, elevated, and not going away. Why won’t they address the elephant in the room which is Radical Islam?