Arrests Made After Antisemitic Attacks In Newtown and Bondi

Police have arrested multiple people after antisemitic attacks in Newtown and Bondi.

Yesterday, police arrested Adam Edward Moule, 33, in relation to the Newtown synagogue fire lit earlier this month, and have today arrested another man, aged 37.

Detectives made the arrest at a hotel in Pyrmont Bridge Road in Darling Harbour at about 1pm.

Police tasered the man at the scene, before he was checked by paramedics and taken to Day Street Police station.

He is yet to be charged.

Moule will face Downing Centre Court for a second time this afternoon, where he is expected to ask for release on bail.

He has not yet entered pleas to damaging property by fire, or to possessing cannabis plants and possessing five bank cards with five different names, in addition to the allegations concerning that synagogue.

NSW Premier Chris Minns thanked NSW Police for “their dogged work investigating the Newtown Synagogue attack”.

“The NSW Police Force has deployed dozens of officers determined to catch the bastards responsible for these sickening, racist crimes,” he said in a statement.

Arrested man claims he lit Bondi fires under duress

This most recent arrest is the 10th made by police under Strike Force Pearl, created to investigate the rise of antisemitic attacks across Sydney.

Three men aged between 19, 20 and 21 were charged after 10 cars and three buildings were vandalised in Woollahra in November 2024.

A 34-year-old woman was charged for a similar incident of deliberately damaging buildings and cars in Woollahra less than a month later.

Four men have also been charged after fires in two Bondi buildings in October.

A fire was deliberately lit at Curly Lewis Brewery on October 17, but self-extinguished in about a minute.

Three days later, kosher caterers Lewis’ Continental Kitchen was set alight, 1200 meters away.

Police are investigating the possibility that the brewery fire was set after addresses were confused, with the intended target, the Jewish business, being hit later.

Guy Finnegan, 31, told police he set the blaze after he and his family were threatened in relation to owed drug money.

Police said he and co-accused Craig Bantoft, 37, were expecting to be paid for the act.

Police are investigating whether criminals have been hired by an underworld network to commit the recent string of antisemitic attacks.