At least two cars in an affluent Sydney suburb have been spray-painted and torched in yet another suspected anti-Semitic attack to hit the city.
Multiple cars parked on Military Road in Dover Heights were spray painted with anti-Semitic slogans and two were set alight set alight around 4am.
A home in the exclusive eastern suburbs neighbourhood, where the average house price is over $5million, was also splashed with red paint.
Residents were awoken by a loud bang before coming out to see the flames engulfing the vehicles.
One resident claimed to Sunrise it was a case of ‘mistaken identity’ because the residents who live at the home that was targeted are not Jewish.
A crime scene has been established and police are calling on any witnesses to come forward.
Police said there were no reports of injuries.
‘Officers attached to Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command are investigating after a number of vehicles were sprayed with graffiti, two vehicles were set alight, and a house was splashed with paint on Military Road, Dover Heights,’ a spokesperson for NSW Police said.
Multiple cars parked on Military Road in Dover Heights were spray painted with anti-Semitic slogans and two were set alight set alight around 4am (pictured)
A home in the exclusive eastern suburbs neighbourhood was also splashed with red paint
‘The NSW Police Force takes hate crimes seriously and encourages anyone who is the victim of a hate crime of witnesses a hate crime to report the matter to police through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or through Triple Zero (000).’
It is the latest suspected anti-Semitic attack to hit Sydney in recent days.
On Monday a wall near Sydenham Train Station in the city’s inner-west was spray-painted with the words ‘gas the Jews’.
Swastikas were also daubed on the nearby Newtown Synagogue before masked vandals attempted to burn it down.
Last Friday, the Southern Sydney Synagogue in the suburb of Allawah was also targeted by anti-Semitic vandals who daubed a number of large red Swastikas at the entrance to the place of worship.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned on the Newtown incident and said that those who committed the act ‘should face the full force of the law’.
‘The vile graffiti we’ve seen overnight, including at the Newtown Synagogue, is abhorrent and needs to stop immediately,’ Mr Albanese said.
‘We made it illegal to use Nazi and other hate symbols because there’s no place in Australia for anti-Semitism.’
It is the latest suspected anti-Semitic attack to hit Sydney in recent days (Pictured: anti-Semitic graffiti spray painted on a wall behind a burnt out car in Woollahra, in Sydney’s east last year)
Pictured: is the southern Sydney synagogue in Allawah after it was targeted last Friday
A shocking new poll carried out by the Anti-Defamation League found that one in five Australian adults hold strong anti-Semitic beliefs.
Around 20 per cent of Australians – equivalent to 4.2million people – hold anti-Semitic beliefs, with an alarming number of young people believing the Holocaust was a myth.
Globally, less than half (48 per cent) recognise the Holocaust’s historical accuracy, which falls to 39 per cent in the 18-34 age group.
While three in five (61 per cent) of Australian respondents believe the Holocaust is described accurately, fewer younger respondents agree.
Those 18-49 aged are more likely to think the death toll was exaggerated (18 per cent), never heard of the Holocaust (nine per cent), or believed it was a myth (8 per cent).
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