Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemns antisemitic graffiti drawn on a Sydney synagogue this morning, asserting that those responsible “should face the full force of the law.”
“The vile graffiti we’ve seen overnight, including at the Newtown Synagogue, is abhorrent and needs to stop immediately. Australia is a better place than this,” he says in a statement on X.
Police said earlier today that a house in Sydney’s east, a hub of the city’s Jewish community, was also daubed with antisemitic graffiti and that they were also probing offensive comments on a street poster in the suburb of Marrickville.
“We made it illegal to use Nazi and other hate symbols because there’s no place in Australia for antisemitism. The people that committed these crimes should face the full force of the law.”
Photos from Newtown Synagogue show swastikas spray painted in red across the front of the building.
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