Victoria’s Jewish leaders call on the wider community to condemn attack that “should not occur on Australian soil.”

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Members of the Jewish community have condemned an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue. Daniel Aghion from the executive council of Australian Jewry says he's not surprised by the incident.

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00:00This is a tragic day for the Australian Jewish community and Melbourne Jewish community and

00:08the Adas community as well.

00:12We have been warning about the risk of this for the last year since 7 October.

00:19We've seen more than 2,000 incidents against the Jewish community and now we see a hate-filled

00:28attack against a synagogue, a firebombing of a synagogue.

00:36Prior to 7 October we never thought this would come to Australia and now it has.

00:43There is absolutely no way that we can, that any rational person can justify what has happened

00:54here today.

00:56I'm not surprised, none of the Jewish community is surprised.

01:00We've known this has been coming.

01:07There is something sick in our society that this has occurred.

01:12I'm pleased to say that I've been getting phone calls this morning from the Hindu community,

01:18from other people, from good people that are prepared to stand up and that's my message

01:22for this morning to Australia, to the good people of Australia.

01:29Don't leave the Jewish community behind.

01:32Don't isolate us.

01:34Don't leave us exposed to the risk of attacks upon our religious institutions, our communal

01:41institutions.

01:43Stand with us.

01:44Stand against this hate and stand against this kind of horrendous attack which should

01:51not occur on Australian soil.

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