NSW Premier Chris Minns and Opposition Leader Mark Speakman address the rise of anti-Semitic acts in speeches on February 11, 2025. Video by Parliament of NSW
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00:00Over summer, we have witnessed scenes of depravity and hatred most of us thought we would never
00:05see in New South Wales—a holy synagogue defiled by a hateful swastika, a childcare
00:13centre deliberately set on fire, Nazi slogans copied from the darkest pages of history spray-painted
00:20across Jewish cars and Jewish property.
00:24To a person, these have been cowardly acts, conducted under the cover of darkness, designed
00:29to bully and intimidate and threaten the Jewish people of our great state.
00:35But we are here today as a parliament, as representatives of this open and tolerant
00:40state, to say in an unambiguous way that this campaign of hatred will fail.
00:48It will fail because the Jewish community is strong.
00:51It will fail because our Jewish friends have an entire state behind them, with the laws
00:56and resources and the solidarity needed to destroy the poison of anti-Semitism wherever
01:03it takes root.
01:06These attacks are a crisis of intolerance, a threat to social cohesion and a direct challenge
01:12to the values we all hold dear.
01:15And they aren't just an attack or an assault on Jewish Australians.
01:18They are an assault on the very idea of a harmonious, inclusive society.
01:24If any group feels unsafe, the integrity of our social cohesion is at risk.
01:30Today it's the Jewish community under threat.
01:32Tomorrow it could be another faith, another culture or another minority.
01:37When hate is left unchecked, it festers.
01:40It grows.
01:41It seeks new targets.
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