New Anti-Semitic Graffiti Discovered In Sydney’s East

More anti-Semitic graffiti has been found in Sydney’s east over the weekend, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemning the incident as unAustralian.

The words “F*ck the Jews” were written in black paint over the side of a car parked in Queens Park sometime between 7am Sunday and 5:45am Monday according to police.

Owner of the car, Stuart Veron, is not Jewish, but said that the person behind the act was a “rat”.

“[My neighbours] they’d be disgusted, there’s no place for that in this community or anywhere in Australia,” he told the ABC.

In a press conference on Monday, Anthony Albanese described anti-Semitism as a “scourge”.

“Any event such as this targeting people because of who they are is not the Australian values that I hold dear and the Australian values that are held dear,” he said.

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip said in a statement the organisation was appalled by the incident.

“It is unacceptable that Jewish Australians and Australians of all backgrounds have had to wake up yet again and see messages of hate prominently displayed in their neighbourhood,” he said.

Rise of anti-Semitic and Islamophobic attacks across Sydney

This is the third reported incident of anti-Semitic graffiti in eastern Sydney over the last couple of months. In late November, a car was set alight, and three buildings and nine cars were tagged with the words “f*ck Israel” and “PKK is coming”.

Another car was set alight and more buildings vandalised with anti-Semitic sentiments on December 11.

Two men were charged with more than 20 offences each after an investigation into the first round of graffiti, although no arrests have been made following December’s incident.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry said they had documented a 316 per cent increase in antisemitic incidents in the same time frame.

Similarly, the Islamophobia Register has documented a 600 per cent increase in reported incidents of hate in the last year, though they note that these reports represent only a fraction of actual incidents.

Islamophobic graffiti was discovered in Western Sydney on December 16, and a woman was arrested after racially abusing a Muslim woman and her daughter in a Bankstown Target only a week later.