As police hunt those responsible for the latest antisemitic attacks in Sydney, Jewish and Muslim leaders are calling for an end to the division. They want the government to step in to help rebuild community relations and put an end to the violence. Warning: This story contains an image of a Nazi symbol.
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00:00As anti-Semitic and Islamophobic attacks continue across Sydney, community leaders agree policing
00:08the problem is not enough.
00:10Unfortunately we've seen that the response to anti-Semitism has been a policing response
00:17rather than a more serious effort to get to the bottom of racism in Australian society.
00:24That federal government should use their influence in both communities to bring communities together.
00:34Multiple synagogues have been targeted with hate speech in the past two weeks, and yesterday
00:38in Dover Heights, cars were set on fire.
00:42At least one was spray-painted with anti-Semitic slurs, while in Sydney's southwest, this offensive
00:48graffiti was seen scrawled on a supermarket.
00:51These people have the wrong ideas and the wrong ideology and they are only attacking
00:58our fellow Australian citizens.
01:01The government has already flagged tougher laws to tackle hate speech, but many believe
01:06they should focus on rebuilding community relations.
01:10I think that there unfortunately has been this real sense of communities being divided
01:16against each other.
01:18Once we sit down on a round table, then we can discuss the details with the authorities
01:25and with the politicians, and they are late, but it's better late than never.
01:32Whether it's anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or any other form of hate, we don't want it,
01:38there's no place for it here.
01:40So if there's a call to bring people together, I'd be the first one to support that.
01:45With an imminent ceasefire in Gaza, it's hoped tensions here will begin to ease.