Anti-Semitic graffiti was tagged on the side of a car at Queens Park. The Prime Minister and the Jewish community have condemned the attack. Police are investigating the incident, which comes after two separate incidents where anti-Israel slogans were graffitied in Woollahra late last year.
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00:00The anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on the car of a man who is not Jewish sometime overnight
00:08in this quiet street in Queen's Park and discovered this morning by a Jewish neighbor as she set
00:13out for a walk.
00:14She says she phoned police and felt physically sick when she saw what was sprayed on the
00:18car.
00:19It's like a cricket bat that hits your head, you just shock that it's here, it's finally
00:26come outside your front door.
00:29Today's crime comes after anti-Israel graffiti was sprayed and cars were torched in the nearby
00:33suburb of Woolara late last year, which has a large Jewish population.
00:38Around the same time, Islamophobic graffiti was sprayed in a neighborhood in Western Sydney
00:43with a large Muslim community.
00:45Today's crime has been condemned by the Jewish Board of Deputies and the Prime Minister Anthony
00:49Albanese.
00:51There is no tolerance for anti-Semitism in Australia from my government, nor should there
00:57be tolerance from anyone else.
01:02Anti-Semitism is a scourge and any event such as this targeting people because of who they
01:07are is not the Australian values that I hold dear and the Australian values that are held
01:13dear by overwhelmingly Australians.
01:17Police are now investigating the graffiti attack and are urging anyone with information
01:21to phone Crimestoppers.