Monday, January 06, 2025
‘F*** the Jews’ Vandalized Car Shakes Sydney to its Core
Antisemitism has reared its ugly head once again in the land down under.
On Monday morning, Jewish residents in Sydney's Queens Park woke up to a white car on Henry Street vandalized with "F*** the Jews" spray-painted in bold black letters. Initial reports suggest that the car was vandalized sometime between 7am Sunday and 5:45am Monday. Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command has since launched an investigation and is urging witnesses to come forward with any information that might help identify the perpetrators.
Surprisingly, the targeted vehicle's owner isn't even Jewish.
"My neighbours, they'd be disgusted. There's no place for that in this community or anywhere in Australia," owner Stuart Veron tells ABC News
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese quickly condemned the violence during his press conference from Queensland today.
"There is no tolerance for antisemitism in Australia, from my government, nor should there be tolerance from anyone else," Albanese stated. "Antisemitism is a scourge, and any event such as this, targeting people because of who they are, is not the Australian values that I hold dear, and the Australian values that are held dear by the overwhelming majority of Australians."
Australia has seen an alarming sequence of antisemitic violence in the past few months. During the early hours of November 21, vandals torched a vehicle and defaced others with anti-Israel graffiti in nearby Woollahra. On December 6, Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue was set on fire as worshippers arrived for morning prayers. Finally, another car was set ablaze and two homes in Woollahra were targeted with antisemitic slurs just five days later.
David Ossip, who heads the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, expressed growing alarm at the increasingly violent pattern of Jewish hatred.
"It is unacceptable that Jewish Australians and Australians of all backgrounds have had to wake up yet again and see messages of hate prominently displayed in their neighborhood," he said. "We cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to acts of Jew-hatred and allow illegal conduct such as this to become normalized.""
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