Anti-Semitic graffiti painted across homes in Sydney's east

Australian Community Media

Seven properties in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra were attacked with anti-Semitic graffiti. It's the second atack on the heavily Jewish-populated suburb in as many months.

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00:00Police were called to an area in Willara about 1am this morning after reports of graffiti,

00:15anti-Semitic writings on walls and on footpaths and what followed later was a car on fire.

00:24Two persons, two males who were disguised were seen running from that location, we believe

00:30in their late teens, early twenties.

00:33What happened last night is disgusting and there's no place for hate of this nature in

00:39Sydney or anywhere in Australia.

00:49This is not simply just an act of vandalism on the streets of Sydney.

00:53We need to call it out for what it is, the sequence of events leading up to it, the graffiti

00:58that accompanied it, clearly identify that this is an attack on our community and the

01:04Jewish community in Sydney.

01:05It is anti-Semitic and it needs to be met with a full response from NSW Police and the

01:11NSW Government.

01:12I can understand when you consider that NSW hosts the second highest per capita number

01:20of Holocaust survivors in the world after Israel, this would be particularly confronting

01:26and horrifying.

01:28Those communities migrated to Australia specifically and precisely to avoid this kind of hatred

01:37and division.

01:51This is not simply just an act of vandalism on the streets of Sydney or anywhere in Australia.

01:56We need to call it out for what it is, the sequence of events leading up to it, the graffiti

02:01that accompanied it, clearly identify that this is an attack on our community and the

02:06Jewish community in Sydney or anywhere in Australia.

02:09It is anti-Semitic and it needs to be met with a full response from NSW Police and the

02:15NSW Government.

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