September 1, 2026 — 7:30pm

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I was one of 40,000 people who ran the Sydney Marathon on Sunday.

For one morning, a city of more than 5 million people becomes unusually intimate. Nobody cares what you earn, where you were born, which god you believe in or which language your grandmother spoke. It is communal joy in its purest form.

So perhaps that is why what happened next felt so discordant.

Among all of that, I saw accusatory messages of hate directed against Israelis. I cannot know precisely who every person holding those signs intended to…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU