Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to link a Melbourne synagogue firebombing to Australia's UN vote earlier this week, as Australian leaders condemn the incident. The Israeli prime minister said he hoped state authorities would use "their full weight to prevent such anti-Semitic acts in the future", before criticising the Albanese government. Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson described …
The attack comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the globe in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war. “We were informed overnight about an incident involving a bottle containing a flammable liquid being thrown onto synagogue grounds,” a police spokesperson said. “We must respond very robustly and strongly to this outrageous and vicious attack,” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski declared. …
