Current Synagogue Firebombing Melbourne Investigated as a terrorist attack * Antisemitic attacks escalating

[Kurve]

ANTISEMITIC EVENTS

May 25, 2024: Australia’s largest Jewish school graffitied in Melbourne.
Oct 13: Antisemitic graffiti on Jewish bakery in Sydney, with note left for owner reading “be careful”.
Nov 21: Cars torched, buildings vandalised in Sydney’s east, an area with a large Jewish population.
Dec 6: Adass Israel Synagogue torched in Melbourne’s south, treated by police as a suspected terror attack.

Jan 7, 2025: Man charged after allegedly threatening worshippers Chabad North Shore synagogue in Sydney’s north.
Jan 10: Allawah Synagogue in Sydney's south graffitied with swastikas.
Jan 11: Graffiti and attempted arson of the Newtown Synagogue in Sydney’s west.
Jan 11: Cars and house vandalised with antisemitic graffiti in Sydney’s west.
Jan 17: Cars torched, building formerly owned by a Jewish community leader vandalised in Sydney’s east.
Jan 21: Childcare centre set alight and graffitied in Sydney’s east. Police charge woman over the Dec. 11 attack.


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[Dogs_R_Us]

Yes, real names and they're quite well known if not so much in Australia. Some are authors, Islamists, radicals who have done time for it in the ME etc.

Any locals, living in Sydney or Melbourne?

There was an article a few days ago in which some Muslim people in Sydney were asked about their feelings about the war. They gave lengthy answers about the fate of Gaza and Israeli bombing but not one word about Hamas.

 

[DapperDon]

Any locals, living in Sydney or Melbourne?

There was an article a few days ago in which some Muslim people in Sydney were asked about their feelings about the war. They gave lengthy answers about the fate of Gaza and Israeli bombing but not one word about Hamas.

On a scale of Rita Panahi to Andrew Bolt how outraged were you?

 

[Kurve]

Any locals, living in Sydney or Melbourne?

There was an article a few days ago in which some Muslim people in Sydney were asked about their feelings about the war. They gave lengthy answers about the fate of Gaza and Israeli bombing but not one word about Hamas.

Do you have a link and were they asked about Hamas?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Do you have a link and were they asked about Hamas?

It’s unknown if they were asked specifically about Hamas. But I’ve never seen a comment from an Australian Muslim, including politicians, criticising Hamas. Would be happy to hear/read otherwise.

MUSLIM GROUPS ‘CAUTIOUS BUT OPTIMISTIC’ OVER END TO BLOODSHED

MUSLIM GROUPS ‘CAUTIOUS BUT OPTIMISTIC’ OVER END TO BLOODSHED

todayspaper.theaustralian.com.au

 

[Kurve]

Not sure what this means, this one is not a terrorist attack or they were paid to do it?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Not sure what this means, this one is not a terrorist attack or they were paid to do it?

So what are the motivations? Money?

 

[BFew]

Not sure what this means, this one is not a terrorist attack or they were paid to do it?

Heat on ‘criminals for hire’ over antisemitic attacks

There is no evidence terror groups and rogue nations are behind some recent antisemitic attacks, investigators believe.

www.afr.com

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'Heat on ‘criminals for hire’ over antisemitic attacks​

Jan 22, 2025 – 11.07am'

Rogue nations and terror groups are not believed to be behind payments to criminals committing antisemitic acts, with police clarifying a strong focus is money being funnelled to gangs for hire that are potentially acting out of personal animosity towards Israel and Jews..
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Not sure the above does anything but add to the confusion.
Maybe the rest of the article (I'm trying to find) makes it clearer.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

What if there was an intelligence slash special operations group from a pariah state that accepts crypto donations?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Well we certainly know that there are “professional protesters”, people who turn up to and indeed often lead protests on any issue. They are savvy about all aspects of protesting, including knowing the law. They are anarchists only interested in disrupting the “colonialist capitalists”. They were mentioned by police during the Land Defence Expo in Melbourne last year. They might be open to “fee for service”.

 

[Kurve]

Harvard has settled some lawsuits but other complainants have refused a settlement offer and are pushing Harvard to go before a jury.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/us/harvard-antisemitism-lawsuit/index.html

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Well we certainly know that there are “professional protesters”, people who turn up to and indeed often lead protests on any issue. They are savvy about all aspects of protesting, including knowing the law. They are anarchists only interested in disrupting the “colonialist capitalists”. They were mentioned by police during the Land Defence Expo in Melbourne last year. They might be open to “fee for service”.

Lol. Are you going to point the blame at anti fascists?

 

[Kurve]

Speaks of online radicalisation and a different kind of 'terrorism'.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke: ‘No space for anti-Semitism in Australia’

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis from Laura Tingle.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kurve]

Mahmood (Mick) Hawi's son Adam Hawi has been charged for the Woollhara attack along with Mohammed Farhat and Thomas Stojanovski.

Mick Hawi's the ex President of the Comanchero's, murdered.

This is where they might find a Hezbollah connection.

Son of slain bikie boss charged over Woollahra antisemitic attack

Adam Hawi, son of murdered former Comancheros boss Mick Hawi, can be revealed to be among those charged over a spate of antisemitic attacks across the city.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Kurve]

Guy Finnegan, charged with the Bondi fire in October 2024. He accepted the job over the encrypted app Signal.

A man behind one of the fires in Sydney's east told police he committed the offence after threats were made to his family related to owed money.

The revelation supports an emerging police theory about criminal organisation links to the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks.

Man says he was acting under duress when he set fire to Bondi brewery

NSW Police investigate whether criminals involved in some of Sydney’s anti-Semitic attacks were hired by an underworld network in exchange for payment.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kurve]

He's only a little bloke but he must have been a feisty one and they tazed him.

A second man has been arrested over an attempt to set a synagogue on fire in Sydney's inner west.

Second man arrested over attempt to set Sydney synagogue on fire

A second man has been arrested over an attempt to set a synagogue on fire in Newtown in Sydney's inner west earlier this month.

www.abc.net.au