SYDNEY — A home in Sydney previously owned by a senior Jewish community leader was vandalized on Friday morning and two cars were set on fire, with one spray-painted with an antisemitic slur, Australi
an authorities said. The attack, the third targeting the Jewish community in Sydney in two months, happened on a property once owned by Alex Ryvchin, the co-chief executive of the Executive Council of the Australian Jewry, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said. “These are horrifying antisemitic attacks ... it is truly disgusting,” Minns said at a news conference.
Australia has seen a rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents since Israel retaliated against an attack by militant Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, with an assault on Gaza that has left tens of thousands of people dead. A car was set alight and two properties were spray-painted with anti-Israel messages in Sydney last month, just days after an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne that is being investigated as terrorism.
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