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Down Under

Australia probing whether ‘foreign actors’ behind antisemitic surge, after daycare torched

2025-01-22

[IsraelTimes] 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

Police in Australia believe a string of antisemitic attacks, including the torching of a daycare center in Sydney early Tuesday morning, may be coordinated by foreign actors, as authorities struggle to contain the scourge.

Sounds like Iranian sock-puppets.

Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said Tuesday that a special anti-terror operation set up to combat serious antisemitic crimes was actively investigating 15 serious allegations, though only a single person has been arrested thus far. There have also been dozens of arrests by local police in Victoria and New South Wales, the Australian government said.

On Thursday, police announced that they had charged a suspect under Avalite for the first time, accusing a 44-year-old man from the Sydney suburb of Blacktown of making death threats against a Jewish organization online.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called a snap meeting of the national cabinet Tuesday to discuss the issue following the daycare center attack, a move opposition parties and Jewish community leaders have been demanding for weeks. Officials there agreed to establish a national database to track antisemitic incidents and behaviors in order to better coordinate responses across different departments and states.

Jeremy Leibler, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, said Australia’s politicianship was finally starting to understand the severity of the problem after failing to properly address mounting anti-Jewish incidents for over a year, much of it thought tied to Israel’s war against the Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror group in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

Attacks have included anti-Jewish and anti-Israel graffiti smeared on properties or vehicles in areas with large Jewish populations, and arson attacks on synagogues in Sydney and Melbourne.

The latest attack occurred just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning when a childcare center adjacent to a synagogue in the Sydney neighborhood of Maroubra was Molotov cocktailed and graffitied with the message "Fuck the Jews." The building was unoccupied at the time and there were no reports of injuries.

Two other synagogues in and around Sydney were vandalized with hate messages earlier this month and police say the assailants attempted to Molotov cocktail one of the buildings.

And last week, a Sydney home previously owned by senior Jewish community leader Alex Ryvchin was vandalized, with two cars set on fire.

Ryvchin said authorities believed he had been deliberately targeted. "Thank God they didn’t have my current address," he said. "This is what’s happening in Australia now."

The attacks have persisted despite officials, including Albanese, promising tough action following an arson attack that gutted the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December.

"This is now a pattern, and police are pretty confident now that this is coordinated, Leibler said. "The country’s politicianship is beginning to realize that this is serious."

In a statement Tuesday, Kershaw said Australian Federal Police were investigating the possibility that overseas actors were paying small-time Mister Bigs to carry out attacks against the Jewish community and whether young people who had been radicalized online were behind the incidents.

Kershaw noted that payments may have been made in cryptocurrency, making it harder to track.

The pattern of foreign actors paying locals — usually via cryptocurrency — to carry out acts of petty vandalism and setting cars on fire could dovetail with a similar phenomenon in Israel. According to the Shin Bet security agency, dozens of Israelis have been arrested in recent months for accepting money from figures in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to graffiti cars and walls with anti-Israel or pro-Iran messages, and to torch cars.

A similar phenomenon has also been reported in Europe, with Russia accused of recruiting locals to commit arson attacks and other acts of sabotage in a bid to undermine support for Ukraine.

Australian officials did not elaborate on the avenue of investigation, but Kershaw said the antisemitic attacks had been brought up with the Five Eyes, a high profile intelligence sharing network between Australia, the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand.

"Regardless, it all points to the same motivation: demonising and intimidating the Jewish community," he said in the statement, promising that more suspects would be charged as more evidence is gathered.

Many in Australia’s Jewish community of some 120,000 are angry at the government over its inability to stem the attacks until now and skeptical that much will change.

"The government seems to be well-intentioned and genuinely wants to address antisemitism, but they are playing catch-up from its failure to speak out strongly and take these actions more than a year ago," Leibler said, adding that upcoming federal elections in May had helped put pressure on the government to take stronger steps.

Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, lamented that the attacks had "become the new normal for Australia."

"It has become part of who we are as a country, and I can’t comprehend how we have gotten to this point," he said.

Though the attacks have generally not caused serious bodily harm, he noted that the vandals were literally playing with fire, as with the torching of cars outside his old home in Sydney, which had threatened the non-Jewish family that now lives in there.

"Two cars were set alight, and the flames were sky-high and could have easily spread to the house itself," he said. "This was at 4 a.m., when families were sleeping, and our old next-door neighbor, a man in his 80s, went out and starting battling the flames with his garden hose. He could have been killed."

He noted that a car belonging to a Jewish couple next door had been daubed with paint reading "Fuck the Jews" on one side and "Fuck Israel" on the other.

"I think that’s quite poetic, like two sides of the same coin," Ryvchin quipped.

To tackle the incidents, Australia’s Federal Police in December launched Special Operation Avalite, tasking 21 counter-terrorism police and experts to investigate threats against the Australian Jewish community.

Kershaw said the operation had received 166 reports, but many were duplicates, were under investigation by local authorities, or were not criminal, leaving 15 allegations for the taskforce to probe.

Ryvchin said the operation had yet to prove itself effective.

"You can only judge a program like that by its outcomes, such as preventing or disrupting attacks or arresting those who commit them," he said. "None of these are being achieved. We aren’t seeing any thwarted attacks, and there are still no arrests on any of the major attacks."

On Thursday, police announced that they had charged a suspect under Avalite for the first time, accusing a 44-year-old man from the Sydney suburb of Blacktown of making death threats against a Jewish organization online.

Golly. That’s it, then — they’ve fixed the problem.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 Islamic Populations have inflection points and once a demographic metric is achieved, you can expect certain outcomes.

At a certain level of the population, synagogue burning becomes less outlier fringe and more median normal.

Posted by: mossomo 2025-01-22 13:40

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