Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Anti-Semitic license plate sparks outrage in Sydney's Jewish community
Australia's Jewish community is in uproar over a set of number plates that appear to celebrate Hamas' attack on Israel.
Former Liberal candidate Freya Leach, a university student who ran in the 2023 state election, shared a photo of the plates attached to a white Ford Ranger on Thursday.
She claimed the ute was spotted in Western Sydney and asked, 'how is this allowed?', tagging NSW Premier Chris Minns.
The plate, which reads 'OCT7TH', is believed to reference the date Hamas soldiers killed more than 1,000 civilians in Israel, triggering the war in Gaza.
The photo has since gone viral online and has been condemned by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) as 'sick'.
'That's so disgusting,' one outraged commenter wrote.
'How can anyone justify this?,' another asked.
AJA announced late Wednesday night that it had taken steps to hopefully get the plates recalled and cancelled.
It also claimed that a complaint was previously made to myPlates, the company responsible for all custom number plates in NSW, on January 23.
However, the plates have not yet been recalled, the Daily Telegraph reported.
AJA also claimed it initiated calls for the number plate to be removed through a Sydney MP.
Ms Leach followed her tweet with another later on Wednesday in which she claimed she received a message saying the plate 'was registered a few years prior according to police'.
She labelled the interpretation a 'very unfortunate coincidence'.
'I didn't want to believe that a fellow Australian could be capable of such disgusting anti-Semitism,' she later wrote.
'Alas, NSW Transport has confirmed "the plate was, in fact, registered in December of last year – well after the attack." Stop the hate Australia!
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