There's widespread condemnation of the anti-Israel vandalism of several properties and the torching of a car in Sydney’s east. Police are searching for two people over the attack in the suburb of Woollahra home to one of Australia’s largest Jewish communities. The attack comes just days after the firebombing attack on a synagogue in Melbourne.
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00:00that is completely abhorrent to who we are as Australians.
00:10Holocaust survivors came to Australia because we are a tolerant country.
00:16We're one in which our whole Australian society is enriched
00:21by people living side-by-side of different faiths, different ethnicities, different backgrounds.
00:28And we need a whole-of-government but whole-of-society effort to make sure this is stamped out.
00:37It's devastating to this community. It's absolutely heartbreaking
00:41because it is intended to send fear into the community.
00:45But when I talk to my broader community and every Australian I've spoken to,
00:50they say, you know what, that is not us. We do not tolerate this sort of behaviour.
00:56And I think that has to be the message to the country,
00:58is we will not tolerate this sort of intimidation of Australians in their homes, in their community.