Another Sydney synagogue and house targeted with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti

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Police are investigating after offensive graffiti was located on a home in Sydney's east and on a synagogue in Sydney's inner west overnight. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has called these attacks monstrous and appalling.

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00:00Graffiti has been spray-painted, this time outside a synagogue on Georgina Street in

00:07Newtown.

00:09Police officers were notified of the Nazi symbols that were spray-painted on the synagogue

00:13fence around 6.30 this morning.

00:16This anti-Semitic graffiti comes after the incident yesterday, where Nazi symbols covered

00:23the exterior of a synagogue in Alawa, a suburb in Sydney.

00:28There has also been a house in Queen's Park that's been graffitied with a similar message.

00:33Now CCTV footage has been released of yesterday's incident, showing two masked individuals and

00:40police have urged anyone with information about the identity of those individuals to

00:44come forward.

00:45We also heard from Premier Chris Minns, who said he condemns these incidents and he's

00:53also called for the tightening of hate crime laws.

00:56Now we've spoken to members of the community here, both residents as well as non-residents.

01:02We've spoken to Jewish members of the community as well as non-Jewish, who have all described

01:07this incident as appalling.

01:09Some have even said that they don't believe this represents the broader community mindset,

01:15but they're disgusted in this behaviour nonetheless.

01:17Basically it would be really nice if people left other people alone.

01:21And for a place of worship, particularly to be attacked in this way, is just not on.

01:26Given today is the day of the Sabbath, the Vice President of the synagogue has told us

01:31he's chosen not to make a comment.

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