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Josh Frydenberg responded angrily 7.30 Report Host Sarah Ferguson asked the former treasurer whether the prime minister’s call for stronger action against anti-Semitism was politically motivated.

“I’m very offended by what you just said. I’m very offended,” Frydenberg responded. “To suggest there was any political motivation in this is an insult.”

The former politician said his motivation stemmed from his daily life and the presence of armed guards in front of his children’s school and police cars in front of sports clubs.

He told Ferguson on the ABC flagship show: “Why do we have to live with this? If I don’t speak up, who will? If not now, when? If not me, who?”

The exchange comes a day after the ABC’s high-profile journalist Laura Tingle claimed Sunday’s terrorist attack on a Jewish festival was not motivated by religion.

speaking on ABC Now Politics podcast On Tuesday, Tingle said the terrorists’ actions “have nothing to do with religion.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attackers “deliberately targeted the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah.”