Child care center is torched in Australia's latest antisemitic attack
A child care center in Sydney was set alight early Tuesday and antisemitic graffiti was sprayed on the wall, officials said, the latest in a spate of attacks in Australia targeting the Jewish community.
SYDNEY — A child care center in Sydney was set alight early Tuesday and antisemitic graffiti was sprayed on the wall, authorities said, the latest in a spate of attacks in Australia targeting the Jewish community.
The child care center, located near a Jewish school and synagogue in the city’s east, suffered extensive damage but there were no reports of injuries in the attack, which occurred around 1 a.m. (9 a.m. Monday ET), police said.
It was the second antisemitic attack on property in four days in Sydney, and comes amid a spate of similar crimes targeting the Jewish community in Australia’s most populous city.
New South Wales state Premier Chris Minns said the perpetrators would be caught and that the police had put more resources into investigating hate crimes, as public frustration grows over the lack of arrests following previous antisemitic attacks.
“The kind of people who would ... attack a fellow Australian whom they don’t know because of their race or religion, it is completely disgusting and these bastards will be rounded up by the police,” Minns said during a media briefing.
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