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A highly concerning spate of "evil" antisemitic attacks have been occurring across Australia – particularly in Sydney and Melbourne – since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war.
Synagogues, homes, cars and even a childcare centre have been firebombed and defaced with vile graffiti, inciting fear and distress.
In the latest major incident, police who located a caravan containing explosives and documents have alleged it was related to plans for an antisemitic attack.
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After his former home was subject to an attack, Alex Ryvchin, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, called out "an evil at work in this country" and warned it was only getting more dangerous the more it went on.
"We have been saying for so long that this can't be normalised, but when we wake up every day and another place has been hit… this is the norm," he said.
Here's how the recent spate of attacks has unfolded.
2024
May 24: Australia's largest Jewish school, Mount Scopus Memorial College, was graffitied in Melbourne.
November 21: A total of 10 cars, including one which was set alight, were spray-painted with graffiti, along with three premises, in multiple Woollahra streets in Sydney.
December 6: The Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea, Melbourne firebombed while worshippers were inside.
December 11: Multiple properties at Woollahra, Sydney were sprayed with anti-Israel slogans, while a Toyota Corolla was destroyed by fire.
2025
January 6: A car was vandalised with antisemitic graffiti in Sydney's east.
January 10: A synagogue in Allawah, Sydney was defaced with antisemitic graffiti.
January 11: Antisemitic graffiti was found on a home in Sydney's east and a synagogue in Sydney's Inner West.
January 17: The former home of Jewish leader in Dover Heights, Sydney was covered with red paint, multiple cars nearby were sprayed with graffiti and two were set on fire,
January 19: A caravan containing explosives said to be capable of causing a "mass casualty event" with a 40-metre diameter blast and documents suggesting they may have been intended for use in an antisemitic attack on a synagogue were found in Dural, Sydney.
January 21: A childcare centre in Maroubra, Sydney was firebombed and antisemitic graffiti left on the walls,
January 30: A Jewish school, two homes and a shopping centre were defaced with antisemitic graffiti in Sydney's east
January 31: Graffiti was sprayed on an electrical box outside the Diamond Bay Bowling Club in Sydney. The club has a lot of Jewish members and a block of units where a lot of Jewish people live.
