Seven properties in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra were attacked with anti-Semitic graffiti. It's the second atack on the heavily Jewish-populated suburb in as many months.
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00:00Police were called to an area in Willara about 1am this morning after reports of graffiti,
00:15anti-Semitic writings on walls and on footpaths and what followed later was a car on fire.
00:24Two persons, two males who were disguised were seen running from that location, we believe
00:30in their late teens, early twenties.
00:33What happened last night is disgusting and there's no place for hate of this nature in
00:39Sydney or anywhere in Australia.
00:49This is not simply just an act of vandalism on the streets of Sydney.
00:53We need to call it out for what it is, the sequence of events leading up to it, the graffiti
00:58that accompanied it, clearly identify that this is an attack on our community and the
01:04Jewish community in Sydney.
01:05It is anti-Semitic and it needs to be met with a full response from NSW Police and the
01:11NSW Government.
01:12I can understand when you consider that NSW hosts the second highest per capita number
01:20of Holocaust survivors in the world after Israel, this would be particularly confronting
01:26and horrifying.
01:28Those communities migrated to Australia specifically and precisely to avoid this kind of hatred
01:37and division.
01:51This is not simply just an act of vandalism on the streets of Sydney or anywhere in Australia.
01:56We need to call it out for what it is, the sequence of events leading up to it, the graffiti
02:01that accompanied it, clearly identify that this is an attack on our community and the
02:06Jewish community in Sydney or anywhere in Australia.
02:09It is anti-Semitic and it needs to be met with a full response from NSW Police and the
02:15NSW Government.