A childcare centre in Sydney was set alight early morning on Tuesday and antisemitic graffiti was sprayed on the wall, authorities said, the latest in a spate of attacks in Australia targeting the Jewish community.
The childcare centre, located near a Jewish school and synagogue in the city’s east, suffered extensive damage but there were no reports of injuries in the attack which occurred around 1 a.m. (1400 GMT, Monday), police said.
It was the second antisemitic attack on property in four days in Sydney, and comes amid a spate of similar crimes targeting the Jewish community in Australia’s most-populous city.
Can a Sydneysider shed some light on this? Is there a strong anti-sematic feeling there and also why express it through graffiti and vandalism?
Not a Sydneysider, but I wouldn’t say there’s a ‘strong anti-semitic feeling’ anywhere in Australia - at least not in comparison to the levels of villification faced by any non-‘white’ ethnic group.
I thought this was interesting:
from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo
If these attacks are commissioned, it’d make some sense of the graffiti that misspelled “Israiel”.