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☆ Vandals attack Jewish area in Sydney in latest antisemitic attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-10 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —Vandals attacked a Jewish area of Sydney overnight, torching a stolen car and scrawling antisemitic words on walls, prompting a swift response from authorities who say antisemitism has no place in multicultural Australia. The attack comes as police search for three suspects over an arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on Friday and follows other antisemitic attacks by vandals in Sydney. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attack had no place in Australia. “Australians want to live peacefully side by side and Australians reject this abhorrent criminal behavior,” he told ABC Radio National. This is an attack against their fellow Australians.”The Jewish community has reported thousands of antisemitic incidents in the past year, as tensions rise over Israel’s unrelenting offensive in Gaza following Hamas’ October 7 attack.

Persons: Australia CNN —, Chris Minns, Amir Maimon, “, ” Minns, Maimon, ”, Anthony Albanese, ’ Organizations: Australia CNN, Australia CNN — Vandals, New South Wales Police, Israel, Australian, “, ABC Radio Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Sydney, Adass, Melbourne, Sydney’s, ”, New South Wales, Gaza

☆ Melbourne, Australia: Adass Israel Synagogue attack to be investigated as a terrorist incident
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-09 | by ( Edward Szekeres | Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —An arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne last week is being investigated as terrorist incident, Australian officials said Monday, as the government announced it was establishing a new task force to combat antisemitism. The Adass Israel Synagogue in the city’s south – one of Australia’s most significant Jewish centers – burst into flames early on Friday sending worshippers fleeing during overnight prayers. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday’s fire at the Melbourne synagogue was the third antisemitic attack in recent months. “Unfortunately, in Australia today those of Jewish ethnicity and religion are being targeted because of who they are,” he said. “The AFP will not tolerate crimes that undermine Australia’s security or our way of life.”A policewoman stands guard at the scene of a fire at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea, Melbourne, Australia, on December 6, 2024.

Persons: Shane Patton, Monday, Patton, Anthony Albanese, Reece Kershaw, ”, “, Con Chronis, Albanese, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel ‘, Ayelet Shaked, Shaked, – Organizations: CNN, Victoria Police, Australian Federal Police, AFP, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Australian, Reuters, United, Labor, Israel, UN, “ Locations: Melbourne, Israel, Sydney, Australia, Adass, Ripponlea, Gaza, Israeli, United Nations, “, Palestinian, “ Australia

☆ Australian PM condemns arson attack on Melbourne synagogue as antisemitic
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Brian Cheng | Brian Cheng Is An Intern On Nbc News'S Asia Desk. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Arsonists caused extensive damage to a synagogue in the city of Melbourne on Friday in what Australia’s Prime Minister Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned as an antisemitic attack. “There is no place in Australia for an outrage such as this,” Albanese told reporters in the city of Perth after the Adass Israel Synagogue was engulfed in flames. Asanka Ratnayake / Getty ImagesAmir Maimon, Israel's ambassador to Australia, also condemned the attack on X, describing the attack as "heinous." Additionally, they have extended their support to the wider Jewish community as it begins towards healing from this tragic incident. the CEO of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Naomi Levin said in a statement.

Persons: Arsonists, Anthony Albanese, ” Albanese, Chris Murray, Asanka Ratnayake, Amir Maimon, Jacinta Allan, ”, Naomi Levin, Robert Gregory Organizations: Australia’s, Victoria Police, Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Australian Jewish Association, Albanese Government Locations: Melbourne, Australia, Perth, Israel, Victoria

☆ Melbourne, Australia: Fire at Adass Israel Synagogue appears deliberate, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Angus Watson | Jennifer Hauser | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Firefighters are putting out a blaze at a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia on Friday which authorities believe was deliberate. No one was injured in the fire that started at about 4am local and caused significant damage to the Adass Israel Synagogue, according to Victoria police, who are investigating the incident. We believe it was targeted,” Arson and Explosives Squad Detective Inspector, Chris Murray told reporters. “We don’t know the motive yet.”Police say a witness told them two masked men were spreading accelerant inside the building. In an interview with ABC Radio Melbourne, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that police are reviewing CCTV footage and there are two persons of interest.

Persons: ”, Chris Murray, “, Anthony Albanese, ” Albanese Organizations: CNN — Firefighters, Explosives, ” Police, ABC Radio Melbourne Locations: Melbourne, Australia, Israel, Victoria

☆ Melbourne, Australia: Police seek suspects in Adass Israel Synagogue blaze condemned as clear act of antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Angus Watson | Jennifer Hauser | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Sydney, Australia CNN —Police are searching for two masked suspects after a synagogue was set on fire in southeastern Australia early Friday in an attack condemned by the prime minister as an act of antisemitism. Worshippers fled from the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne when the blaze took hold around 4 a.m. Friday morning. The violence and intimidation and destruction at a place of worship is something that we should never see in Australia. However, Robert Gregory, CEO of the Australian Jewish Association, said he was “outraged but not at all surprised” by the attack. Sarah Schwartz, executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, called the fire an “act of disgusting violence” and an attack on the Jewish community.

Persons: ”, Benjamin Klein, ” Klein, Chris Murray, ” Murray, “ We’re, “, Anthony Albanese, it’s, ” Albanese, Robert Gregory, Sarah Schwartz Organizations: Australia CNN — Police, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC, Victoria Police, Explosives Squad, Israel, Palestine, Australian Jewish Association, Jewish Council of Australia Locations: Sydney, Australia, Adass, Melbourne, Gaza

Last month's slayings of about 1,200 people in Israel by armed Palestinian militants represented the biggest killing of Jews since the Holocaust. ACTS OF ANTISEMITISM — AND HOW THAT'S DEFINEDAntisemitism is broadly defined as hatred of Jews. Criticism of Israel's policies and antisemitism have long been conflated by Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by some watchdog groups. Some of Europe's Jews say they see it on the streets and the news. Many Jews, though, say the chant is inherently anti-Jewish and calls for the destruction of Israel.

Persons: Michel Dreifuss, —, Herbert Traube, Benjamin Netanyahu, Susan Neiman, “, you’ve, ”, Israel, Israel —, There's, Anna Segal, Segal, ” Segal, Peggy Hicks, “ I’ve, Hicks, ” ___ Kellman, Kirsten Grieshaber, Silvia Stellacci, Karel Janicek, Lorne Cook, Jari Tanner, Vanessa Gera, John Leicester, Sylvie Corbet Organizations: GENEVA, Einstein, —, French Interior Ministry, Community Security Trust, Israel, West Bank Locations: Geneva, Israel, Gaza, Europe, Germany, Austria, Potsdam, Britain, Russia, Berlin, Lyon, France, In Berlin, Palestine, Jordan, Jerusalem, London, Rome, Prague, Brussels, Helsinki, Warsaw, Poland, Paris

☆ Jewish Community in Berlin Firebombed Amid Surge in Antisemitic Violence
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Jewish community building in central Berlin that includes a kindergarten, a school and a synagogue was firebombed early Wednesday amid a surge in antisemitic violence across Germany that has intensified following the attack on Israel. Unknown perpetrators hurled two Molotov cocktails at the headquarters of the Kahal Adass Jisroel association but failed to reach the building, and the incendiary devices blew up on the pavement, according to police. No one was injured in the attack that took place around 3 a.m. The building, like other Jewish sites in Germany, is under permanent police protection but officers couldn’t prevent the attack or apprehend the perpetrators.

Locations: Berlin, Germany, Israel

☆ Ex-Principal of Australian Girls’ School Sentenced to 15 Years for Abuse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Yan Zhuang | More About Yan Zhuang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The former principal of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls’ school in Australia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in jail for sexually abusing two students more than a decade ago. In April, a jury found the principal, Malka Leifer, guilty of 18 counts of sexual abuse, including rape, and sexual penetration and indecent assault of a 16- or 17-year-old. She was acquitted on nine charges, including rape and indecent assault. The charges, to which Ms. Leifer pleaded not guilty, spanned from 2003 to 2007, when she was principal of the Adass Israel School in Melbourne. Prosecutors said that the sexual abuse, which occurred at the school, on school camping trips and at Ms. Leifer’s house, began when the girls were students and continued when they became student teachers.

Persons: Malka Leifer, Leifer, Leifer’s Organizations: Adass Israel School, Prosecutors Locations: Australia, Melbourne, Israel

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