A massive blaze has torn through the Adass Israel synagogue at Ripponlea in Melbourne. Political leaders across Australia have condemned the attack on a synagogue built by Holocaust survivors as an "act of hate" and clear anti-Semitism, as police hunt for two suspected arsonists. Religious leader Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann said "two thugs" broke the synagogue's windows, threw fuel on the floor and set it alight as people were preparing to pray early Friday morning.
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00:00From the ample calls that I've been getting since about 6.30 in the morning,
00:04the community leader can tell you that people are anxious, they're scared.
00:10It's un-Australian, frankly. It's not what we do here as Victorians.
00:19And your ideology and your hate for the other is despicable.
00:24What happened this morning to the Adas Synagogue is totally and utterly unacceptable.
00:30It has no place in Australia. We must send a message as a country after the last year
00:36that actions like this have consequences, that people will not get away with this kind of behaviour.
00:42We believe it was deliberate, we believe that it has been targeted.
00:46What we don't know is why and we'll get to the why.
00:49We will do everything we can to bring these individuals before the courts.