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.
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