The advocacy group the Executive Council of Australian Jewry tallied more than 3,700 anti-Jewish incidents in the country during the two years after the Hamas attack. The pace of incidents during that period was five times what it was in the decade before the attack. The incidents ranged from anti-Israel graffiti to the arson and destruction of a Melbourne synagogue.
“What is happening in Australia is not an exception; it should be a wake-up call to communities worldwide,” said Marina Rosenberg, a senior vice president for international affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, in a statement earlier this month. “When synagogues can be firebombed in Melbourne and Jews threatened and attacked in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Toronto, this is a threat not only to Jewish safety but to democratic stability itself.”
Australia’s government blamed Iran for organizing arson attacks on the Melbourne synagogue and a kosher food company in Sydney last year.
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