An anti-Semitism inquiry has explored reverberations from conflicts in the Middle East in Australia. (Con Chronis/AAP PHOTOS)An anti-Semitism inquiry has explored reverberations from conflicts in the Middle East in Australia. (Con Chronis/AAP PHOTOS) Credit: AAPAs tensions flared within its own halls, the anti-Semitism royal commission has probed how to defuse the reverberations of conflicts in the Middle East playing out in Australia. It was a week in which the causes and possible remedies for extremism were explored in depth, with many of those tasked with the job giving evidence. Kelly Mischel is Victoria's commissioner for preventing and countering violent extremism in the state's prison system.