Police investigate car fire and anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney’s east

ABC NEWS (Australia)

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has told the Jewish community the majority of Australians stand with them after anti-Israel graffiti was scrawled on homes in Sydney’s east. Police are now searching for two people seen in the area and believe a car set alight at the scene belonged to the pair.

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00:00A violent act of destruction, clearly anti-Semitic, designed to strike fear into the community

00:09that lives in this part of Sydney.

00:11I want to make it clear that this is antithetical and completely opposite to the kind of community

00:16and society that we want in Australia in 2024.

00:20This violent act will be met with the full response from New South Wales Police.

00:25Of course it will be completely and thoroughly investigated.

00:28I want to make it clear that these are shocking crimes, of course we're concerned and worried

00:33about it, but we also need to put forward a very strong message to the Jewish community

00:38of New South Wales that 99% of Australians that live in this state are behind you.

00:43They're appalled by this behaviour, they are appalled by these crimes and that they stand

00:49with the Jewish community of New South Wales.

00:52I can understand when you consider that New South Wales hosts the second highest per capita

00:58number of Holocaust survivors in the world after Israel, this would be particularly confronting

01:05and horrifying.

01:07And those communities migrated to Australia specifically and precisely to avoid this kind

01:15of hatred and division.

01:18And I want to make it clear that there is a comprehensive police response in relation

01:23to this shocking crime, that the community is with the Jewish community of New South

01:27Wales today, that it won't be tolerated and that civic and civil society is completely

01:33appalled by these acts of violence.

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