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2025-01-16 21:32
New South Wales police are investigating after cars were set alight and vandalised with antisemitic graffiti outside a home in Sydney’s east where a prominent member of Australia’s Jewish community reportedly used to live.
The house in Dover Heights was also doused with red paint just before 4am on Friday.
Residents told AAP they believed the attack to be a case of mistaken identify as Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin used to live there.
Police have not received any reports of injury. AAP has contacted Ryvchin for comment.
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, called the incident in Dover Heights a “disgusting and dangerous act of violence” that was “the latest example of a rising level of antisemitic attacks in our community”.
“Civil society stands united in condemning this flagrant racism,” he said.
The NSW police minister, Yasmin Catley, called the attack a “disgusting act of hatred [that] will not be tolerated”.
“Police are doing everything they can to identify and arrest those responsible,” she said.
“There is no place for hatred or antisemitism in our society. Every person has the right to feel safe in their own city, their homes, and their places of worship.”
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese said the incident was “an outrage, another attack that is against everything that we stand for”.
The president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, David Ossip, said he was “profoundly disturbed and sickened to wake up to news of yet another antisemitic attack”.
“Criminal acts like these, perpetrated by masked cowards and thugs in the dead of night, are intended to menace and intimidate the Jewish community and further fragment our social cohesion,” he said.
The Zionist Federation of Australia CEO, Alon Cassuto, said the attack “isn’t just an assault on Jews, it’s an attack on all Australians”.
He said the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel and “the subsequent war have unleashed unprecedented antisemitism in Australia which has fractured our social cohesion”.
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