Synagogue lit and the restaurant stormed: anti -Semitism in Australia
Synagogue lit and the restaurant stormed: anti -Semitism in Australia
In the past few days, anti -Semitic attacks have been piled up in Australian cities. A man set fire to the door of a synagogue while a group of protesters stormed an Israeli restaurant in Melbourne. These incidents show the concern of anti -Semitism in Australia, especially in the largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
arson attack on synagogue in Melbourne
On Friday evening, about 20 people were in the synagogue in the city center of East Melbourne, when a man with flammable liquid overgown the entrance door of the synagogue on Albert Street and set them on fire, the police of the state of Victoria said. The attack occurred at 8 p.m. local time, while the municipality celebrated the Shabbate dinner, which marked the beginning of the Jewish day of rest. Fortunately, there was no injuries in this incident and the fire brigade was able to delete the little fire quickly. The perpetrator, whose identity is still unknown, fled from the stop.
protests against Israeli restaurant
other anti -Semitic incidents in Melbourne
reactions and social concern
The unity for security examinations that is part of the anti -terrore command examines all incidents, even if the police have not yet explained whether it is terrorist acts. Dunstan said: "We will examine the intention and ideology of the people or a person involved." The anti -Semitic attacks in the Jewish community in Australia, which comprises around 117,000 members, raise great concern.
conviction by politics and community
ryvchin from the Ecaj called on the nation to condemn these "reprehensible crimes": "Those responsible cannot be confronted with reason or compliance. They have to be confronted with all hardness of the law," he wrote to X.