Members of Sydney’s eastern suburbs Jewish community have welcomed extra security – but have said they won’t be cowed by antisemitic attacks.
Michelle Gold’s children peered out of the window during breakfast and saw police and cameras swarming into a nearby street. “Oh look, Mum, they’re filming a movie,” they said. Gold looked out.
Australia’s Jewish community has long employed specialist security, such as armed guards, threat monitors and surveillance cameras, to protect its schools, synagogues and community events against a backdrop of intense hostility in the Middle East. A visibly upset Kellie Sloane, member for Vaucluse, talks with President of Emanuel Synagogue Grant McCorquodale.Local MP Kellie Sloane visited the street as forensic police were painting over the slogans. Two similar attacks within a few weeks, she said, felt like a “pattern of intimidation and hatred against a community that is trying to go about their everyday lives. People are both deeply upset and emotional, and there are people in tears that I’ve spoken to this morning.
Rabbi Rafi Kaiserblueth has said the latest attacks would not keep people from attending the Emanuel Synagogue in Woollahra.“We want to believe, become and belong,” he said. “That’s not just a Jewish thing, that’s a basic human need.”Asked if the community was scared, Grant McCorquodale, the president of the Emmanuel Synagogue, would not be drawn.“I don’t want to let the perpetrators get a sense they’ve hit their target,” he said.
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