Minns will be receiving an update from police later this morning.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the incident was an “outrage” that goes “against everything that we stand for”. In an interview on ABC Radio National, Albanese called for calm ahead of anticipated pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protests this weekend.
“What we need to do is to lower the temperature in the community. Australians want to see the conflict end, they want to see hostages released … they don’t want to see conflict brought here to Australia,” he said.
The people responsible for the vandalism deserve “swift, harsh punishment”, NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said.
“With a fragile Gaza ceasefire brokered just yesterday, it’s devastating to see yet another disgusting antisemitic attack early this morning, involving arson and vandalism, this time in Dover Heights,” he said.
“Hatred has no place in our society.”
The incident comes just a week after a synagogue in Sydney’s south was vandalised in what Minns called a “hate-filled attack”.
Two hooded figures were captured on CCTV spraying slurs and swastikas on the Southern Sydney Synagogue at Allawah last Friday.
Since then, another synagogue in Newtown and a home and several cars in Queens Park have been vandalised with similar slurs.
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Meanwhile a western Sydney man could face up to a decade in prison for allegedly threatening to kill Jewish community leaders. The charges are the first laid by a federal operation announced after the firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne in December.
Operation Avalite targets “high-harm, recidivist antisemites”, AFP assistant commissioner Stephen Nutt said.
More to come.
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