{"id":117553,"date":"2024-12-07T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117553"},"modified":"2024-12-07T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T12:07:52","slug":"08-00-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117553","title":{"rendered":"Australian PM Blames Antisemitism for Arson Attack on Melbourne Synagogue, Manhunt Underway for Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Australian PM Blames Antisemitism for Arson Attack on Melbourne Synagogue, Manhunt Underway for Suspects<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Arsonists heavily damaged the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, on Dec. 6, 2024. Photo: Screenshot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Arsonists heavily damaged a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday in what Australia\u2019s prime minister called an antisemitic attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fire at the Adass Israel Synagogue, which injured one person and caused extensive damage to the building, began early on Friday. Australian police said the assailants were wearing masks and they were searching for two people suspected of deliberately starting the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

While investigators have not yet identified a motive,\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Anthony Albanese\u00a0<\/a>blamed antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a shocking incident to be unequivocally condemned. There is no place in Australia for an outrage such as this,\u201d Albanese told reporters. \u201cTo attack a place of worship is an attack on Australian values. To attack a synagogue is an act of antisemitism, is attacking the right that all Australians should have to practice their faith in peace and security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added in a statement that counter-terrorism police will liaise with Victoria state police on the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

State police in Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, said a worshiper at the synagogue saw two people who appeared to be spreading accelerant inside the building before setting it on fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe it was deliberate. We believe it has been targeted. What we don\u2019t know is why and we\u2019ll get to the why,\u201d Detective Inspector Chris Murray told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was some banging on a door with some liquid thrown inside and was lit alight. The few people inside the synagogue ran outside the back door; one of them got burnt,\u201d Adass Israel Synagogue board member Benjamin Klein told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.<\/span><\/p>\n

About 60 firefighters with 17 fire trucks reportedly responded to the blaze.<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria state Premier Jacinta Allan said in a statement that the synagogue was \u201cbuilt by Holocaust survivors\u201d in the suburb of Ripponlea.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery available resource will be deployed to find these criminals who tried to tear a community apart,\u201d Allan added, noting there would be a heavier police presence in the area. \u201cWe stand against antisemitism now and forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a post on X\/Twitter, the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia called on the government to do more to\u00a0combat rising antisemitism<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne appears to be another shocking escalation of the hate that we have seen brazenly displayed on the streets of Melbourne every week for over a year,\u201d Jeremy Leibler said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should be surprised; this violent attack is a direct consequence of words turning into actions. Jew-hatred, left unchecked, endangers all Australians. Enough is enough, this is a stain on our nation. It\u2019s time for all levels of government to turn their words into actions to stamp out this Jew-hatred,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel Aghion, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), called on all of Australia to condemn the arson attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t leave the Jewish people behind. Don\u2019t isolate us. Don\u2019t leave us exposed to the risk of attacks upon our religious institutions, our communal institutions,\u201d Aghion tols reporters. \u201cStand with us. Stand against this hate. And stand against this kind of horrendous attack which should not occur on Australian soil.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s incident came just days after the ECAJ published a new report showing that\u00a0antisemitism in Australia quadrupled<\/a>\u00a0to record levels over the past year, with Australian Jews experiencing more than 2,000 antisemitic incidents between October 2023 and September 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

The data included dozens of assaults and hundreds of incidents of property destruction and hate speech. Physical assaults recorded by the group jumped from 11 in 2023 to 65 in 2024. The level of antisemitism for the past year was six times the average of the preceding 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

As\u00a0The Algemeiner\u00a0<\/em>has previously reported, the number of attacks on Jews \u2014 digital, political, and physical \u2014 has\u00a0skyrocketed in Australia<\/a>\u00a0since the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas\u2019s invasion of and massacre across southern Israel last Oct. 7, amid the ensuing war in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one notorious episode in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack, hundreds of pro-Hamas protesters gathered outside the Sydney Opera House chanting \u201cgas the Jews,\u201d \u201cf\u2014k the Jews,\u201d and other epithets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The explosion of hate also included vandalism and threats of gun violence, as well as incidents such as a\u00a0brutal attack on a Jewish man<\/a> in a park in Sydney.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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