Sydney home vandalised in anti-Semitic attack previously owned by prominent Jewish leader Alec Ryvchin

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Investigations are underway into an anti-semitic attack in Sydney’s east overnight. In Dover Heights two cars were set on fire and a third was damaged, while a nearby home was splashed with red paint.

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00:00Emergency crews were called to Military Road in Dover Heights around 4am this morning where

00:07they found a car alight and spray painted with an anti-semitic phrase.

00:13They also found the front of a property splashed in red paint.

00:17The New South Wales Premier Chris Mins has condemned this recent attack as a disgusting

00:22act of violence and says police will do everything in their power to hunt down those responsible.

00:28These are horrifying anti-semitic attacks, they're violent, I think they've shocked the

00:33people of New South Wales and Australia and honestly I never thought I would see this

00:38kind of naked racism and anti-semitism repeating itself on the streets of Sydney in such an

00:45organised horrifying manner.

00:47It is truly disgusting and against all of the ethos, all of the community sentiment

00:54about what living in Australia is all about and I know that these shameful, violent, appalling

01:02behaviour is condemned by the vast, vast majority of people that live in this state and live

01:07in this country.

01:08Now Premier Chris Mins confirmed that the former owner of that home is a prominent Jewish

01:13leader in Australia's community, Alex Ryachin, the Co-Chief of the Executive Council of Drury

01:20and that police are now actively investigating whether or not this was a targeted attack

01:26on a member of Australia's Jewish community and a prominent leader of Australia's Jewish

01:31community.

01:32Now counter-terrorism police are involved in this investigation, New South Wales police

01:35say they are throwing everything they can to try and hunt down those responsible and

01:40the Premier says this is just another example of what he says is a rising level of anti-semitism

01:45in New South Wales.

01:46We're still waiting to hear from Alex Ryachin who spoke personally to the Premier.

01:51The Premier says he is amazed by the resilience he has shown so far and that most of the Sydney

01:58community is thinking of him and his family at this difficult time.

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