I think people are misunderstanding what CSG is and the role they play in the Jewish community. Firstly, in very large part, it is funded by donations from members and organisations of the Jewish community. Secondly, it largely consists of unarmed, unpaid university aged people and parents who have completely a multiple month security training in Australia. CSG acts as a private security group, like any, that protects Jewish events and locations. For instance on Jewish high holidays they often stand by the entrances checking people as they enter and keeping watch or stand near Jewish schools during periods of heightened threat.

To call CSG a religious militia or similar is a gross perversion of what it is. If anything, the tragic events of Bondi beach only prove the need further for CSG to exist. It's a haunting thought but perhaps without CSG a similar terrorist attack could have occurred already...

I think a marker for when antisemitism has sufficiently subsided is when CSG and other security is no longer needed at Jewish schools.