1 day ago · MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police suspect explosives stashed on Sydney’s outskirts were evidence of a deadly escalation in a campaign of antisemitic arson and graffiti crimes that has been waged in major cities for months, officials said on Wednesday.. Police found a list of Jewish targets together with a cache of Powergel, an explosive used in the mining industry, in a trailer ...

Jan 21, 2025 · The childcare centre set alight in Sydney on Tuesday after being sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti is the eighth such anti-Semitic attack in the past three months. The building is a short ...

4 days ago · Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours ...

1 day ago · SYDNEY, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Australia has been grappling with a spate of antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war in late 2023. Authorities ...

22 hours ago · In response to rising antisemitism, an Australian state government has proposed new restrictions on protests, including a ban on demonstrations at places of worship. ... Sydney and Melbourne ...

Jan 23, 2025 · A crime scene was set up at Woollahra in Sydney's eastern suburbs. (ABC News: Berge Breiland)Julian Lesser, a prominent Jewish MP, argued the incidents should be described as terrorism because ...

Jan 22, 2025 · January 10: Sydney synagogue graffitied. No arrests. ... The same night, anti-semitic graffiti was sprayed on a house and five parked cars on Henry Street in Queens Park, while offensive comments ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Four vehicles and the former home of a Jewish community leader were defaced in Sydney early Friday, with two cars set alight, in the latest antisemitic attack condemned by Australian...

Jan 21, 2025 · MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian state committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes, officials said on Tuesday after a childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue.. The childcare center a block from a synagogue in a suburb of Maroubra was also spray-painted with anti-Jewish graffiti before it …

Jan 22, 2025 · Sydney has experienced several anti-Semitic attacks, mainly in Sydney's eastern suburbs where many Jewish people live, which have been met with widespread community outrage and a heavy police ...