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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

antisemitism in Australia

Footage posted to social media shows a fire blazing in the Adass Israel Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea, Australia, December 6, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 18, 2025, 5:53 pm
Australian political rivals pledge to rebuild Melbourne’s firebombed synagogue
Both the ruling Labour Party and the opposition Liberals say they’ll spend more than $20 million, with combating antisemitism a hot-button issue in May elections
By Zev Stub
Illustrative: Australian police block a street near a crime scene at Bondi Junction in Sydney, April 14, 2024. (Rick Rycroft/AP)
March 10, 2025, 1:23 pm
Australian police: Organized crime network faked synagogue bomb attack plot
Deputy national security commissioner says suspects prepared explosives, then informed authorities with the aim of ‘changing their criminal status’
By Agencies, Zev Stub and ToI Staff
Screen capture from an undated video of Israeli influencer Max Veifer (left) during a conversation with two nurses from a hospital in Sydney, Australia. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 5, 2025, 6:43 am
Second Australian nurse charged for threatening to kill Israeli patients in viral clip
Ahmad Rashad Nadir arrested on charges of using a carriage service to menace or harass and illegal drug possession, week after other nurse in the video was indicted
By AFP
Police stand near houses vandalized with anti-Israel slogans in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, Australia, December 11, 2024. (AP/Mark Baker)
February 26, 2025, 12:37 pm
Australian police charge seven for making Nazi salutes
Group makes gesture at club for Croatian expats, sparking condemnation from president of institution in Victoria’s Geelong
By AFP and ToI Staff
Screen capture from an undated video of Israeli influencer Max Veifer (left) during a conversation with two nurses from a hospital in Sydney, Australia. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 26, 2025, 8:50 am
Australian nurse indicted for threatening to kill Israeli patients in viral clip
Sarah Abu Lebdeh charged with threatening violence to group; using carriage service to threaten to kill after she told influencer ‘I won’t treat [an Israeli patient], I will kill them’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Screen capture from an undated video of Israeli influencer Max Veifer (left) during a conversation with two nurses from a hospital in Sydney, Australia. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 12, 2025, 10:52 am
Two nurses in Australia suspended for saying they would kill Israeli patients
In social media conversation with Israeli influencer, one nurse claims to have already sent ‘Israeli dogs’ to hell, another vows she would not treat them, would kill them instead
By Agencies and Zev Stub
A member of the Jewish community reads messages attached to a fence where flowers have been left at the Adass Israel Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea on December 9, 2024. (Martin Keep / AFP)
February 6, 2025, 10:18 pm
Australia investigating potential foreign influence amid wave of antisemitic attacks
Twelve people arrested by counterterror task force don’t share antisemitic ideology expressed in their crimes, cops say, as Australia passes new, bipartisan hate crime laws
By AP and ToI Staff
Swastikas daubed on a synagogue in Newtown on January 11, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (Screen grab via ABC News)
February 6, 2025, 8:45 am
Australia passes tough hate crime laws in bid to stem wave of antisemitism
Legislation includes mandatory jail time for Nazi salutes, 6 years for those found guilty of terrorism; Prime Minister Albanese says perpetrators must be held to account
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Police stand near houses vandalized with anti-Israel slogans in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, Australia, December 11, 2024. (AP/Mark Baker)
February 5, 2025, 10:02 pm
Australian man arrested for hurling bacon while scrawling antisemitic graffiti
68-year-old allegedly spat on and threw ‘packet’ of cured pork at a passerby who confronted him over the vandalism
By JTA and ToI Staff
An antisemitic slur is seen graffitied on a wall in King Lane, Randwick, Sydney, Sunday, February 2, 2025. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi)
February 2, 2025, 9:50 am
Two major Australian cities hit with antisemitic vandalism overnight
Police in both Sydney and Perth report swastikas, anti-Jewish messages graffitied on cars, homes; latest in a growing trend of targeting Jews in Australia
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of antisemitic graffiti found in Sydney, Australia, January 30, 2025. (9News. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 31, 2025, 1:17 pm
Australian Jews up security, conceal identity amid stream of antisemitic attacks
Police and private security stationed outside Jewish school as children return from summer break; community leader says some Jews removing kippot and mezuzot
By Alasdair Pal and Jill Gralow
Police stand near houses vandalized with anti-Israel slogans in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, Australia, December 11, 2024. (AP/Mark Baker)
January 30, 2025, 10:18 pm
Discovery of explosives-filled trailer near Sydney averted mass casualty event — police
Police say public revelations about vehicle, believed to have been intended to blow up synagogue, compromised ongoing probe into series of antisemitic attacks in Australia
By Zev Stub
Screen capture from video of antisemitic graffiti found in Sydney, Australia, January 30, 2025. (9News. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 30, 2025, 3:54 pm
Sydney Jewish school, home and mall daubed with antisemitic graffiti
Discovery of sprayed slogans including ‘Jew dogs’ comes day after announcement of apparent bomb plot against Jewish targets amid escalation in antisemitic incidents in Australia
By Agencies
New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner David Hudson briefs reporters about a caravan of explosives found in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, with 'indications' that they were meant to target a synagogue, January 29, 2025. (Screen capture via Australian Broadcasting Corporation, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 29, 2025, 1:49 pm
Sydney police uncover cache of explosives, with indication target was synagogue
Australian city’s Jewish community on edge after police — who kept the incident secret until it was leaked — say they’re probing possible connections to recent antisemitic attacks
By Zev Stub, ToI Staff and Agencies
Police stand near houses vandalized with anti-Israel slogans in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, Australia, December 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
January 21, 2025, 4:59 pm
Australia probing whether ‘foreign actors’ behind antisemitic surge, after daycare torched
Jewish community leader say officials finally taking issue seriously after months of mounting attacks, but many skeptical, with special operation netting only single arrest so far
By Zev Stub
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