Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Visiting torched synagogue, Australian PM calls for unity after ‘evil crime’
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) and Rabbi Shlomo Kohn visiting the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 2024, days after it was set ablaze. (Handout / DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)
Australia’s prime minister tours the charred wreckage of a synagogue, urging the nation to unite in the face of an “evil” arson attack.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Jewish leaders outside the synagogue, pledging to do what is necessary to help rebuild in the wake of “this evil crime.”
“This arson attack is an act of terrorism. It was fueled by antisemitism and it was stoked by hatred,” says Albanese, donning a Jewish skullcap and flanked by Jewish community leaders. “We’re a country that needs to come together and unite.”
His comments came just days after Australia voted for a United Nations General Assembly resolution that demanded the end of Israel’s “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
