Current Synagogue Firebombing - Melbourne * Investigated as a terrorist attack

[Kurve]

Here comes the crackdown.

The AFP will lead Special Operation Avalite to investigate threats, violence and hatred towards the Australian Jewish community and parliamentarians.

Twenty-one AFP police and analysts, who are an experienced squad of counter terrorism investigators, will deploy nationally to incidents to investigate:

• Urging violence against members of groups;
• Advocating Terrorism;
• Advocating Genocide;
• Using a carriage service to make a threat; and
• Using a carriage service to menace or harass.

AFP to lead Special Operation Avalite to investigate anti-Semitism | Australian Federal Police

The AFP will lead Special Operation Avalite to investigate threats, violence and hatred towards the Australian Jewish community and parliamentarians.

www.afp.gov.au

 

[Kurve]

Adass synagogue in Ripponlea, Melbourne was set on fire by two masked men this morning while people were inside it and who fled through the back door.

By the time the firies got there, the building was fully blazing.

The Prime Minister has called the attack an antisemitic act of hatred.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/worshippers-flee-as-synagogue-in-melbourne-is-set-on-fire-in-targeted-attack/news-story/e1d4d126e4d40cb39b741d17973874f5

 

[DapperDon]

A synagogue in Melbourne was set on fire this morning, there were people in it who fled out the back door. Nobody seriously injured but at least one had burnt hands.

By the time the firies got there, the building was fully blazing.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/worshippers-flee-as-synagogue-in-melbourne-is-set-on-fire-in-targeted-attack/news-story/e1d4d126e4d40cb39b741d17973874f5

The idiots who started this are too stupid to realise these people are against Zionism as much if not more than they are.

Or they are just too ignorant to care.

(not that they should be burning down any synagogue)

 

[Jazny]

The idiots who started this are too stupid to realise these people are against Zionism as much if not more than they are.

The fire is being treated as suspicious, it's not yet confirmed as arson let alone motivated by hate from reports I read. Not to say it won't be, but best not to jump to conclusions.

What makes you think they are against zionism? What do you think zionism means?

 

[treeebeard]

The idiots who started this are too stupid to realise these people are against Zionism as much if not more than they are.

Or they are just too ignorant to care.

(not that they should be burning down any synagogue)

Israel and Judaism are often conflated in this country, so people like this seemingly find it hard to separate the two. Dutton does the Jewish diaspora no favours when he direclty links the occupation in Gaza to jewish people in Australia.

 

[Kurve]

The fire is being treated as suspicious, it's not yet confirmed as arson let alone motivated by hate from reports I read.

What makes you think they are against zionism? What do you think zionism means?

Channel 7 reports two men banged on the door, then threw a fluid and fired it.

 

[DapperDon]

The fire is being treated as suspicious, it's not yet confirmed as arson let alone motivated by hate from reports I read. Not to say it won't be, but best not to jump to conclusions.

What makes you think they are against zionism? What do you think zionism means?

It's an ultra-orthodox synagogue

 

[Jazny]

Channel 7 reports two men banged on the door, then threw a fluid and fired it.

Witness described that or footage? Either way that's decent evidence, but I will still wait for more confirmation, especially for motives.

 

[Kurve]

Witness described that or footage?

Witnesses, this far.

There's an image of a guy carrying 2 x 1L plastic bottles of what might be petrol starting to go around, but I don't know if it's legit.

 

[treeebeard]

There will almost certainly be CCTV. These kind of places are given lots of government money to install cctv

 

[Kurve]

Does anybody know if it's true that activists are allowed to gather outside places of worship such as synagogues, to protest against Israel?

 

[Zidane98]

There will almost certainly be CCTV. These kind of places are given lots of government money to install cctv

Elaborate further on this. What government department under what program provides government money to fund installation of CCTV?

I'd be interested to hear about this government funding program you allege.

 

[Zidane98]

Does anybody know if it's true that activists are allowed to gather outside places of worship such as synagogues, to protest against Israel?

It's a free country, you can gather where you like in any public place.

If police determine your gathering to be a public nuisance / threat to public safety they do have the power to break it up and issue move on orders that can be enforced with arrest if those subject to move on orders refuse to do so.

 

[treeebeard]

Elaborate further on this. What government department under what program provides government money to fund installation of CCTV?

I'd be interested to hear about this government funding program you allege.

Been around a while and going by the department that runs it, they acknowledge indirectly that a religion is a business, albeit a non tax paying one. I believe some states run smaller versions of it as well, so these types can triple dip in to public purses.

Securing Faith-Based Places | business.gov.au

Funding to address the risk of crime motivated by racial and religious intolerance

business.gov.au

 

[Kurve]

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Witness fleeing then returning to scene and burning his hands on a door sounds a bit weird.

Hopefully there is CCTV

 

[Kurve]

Witness fleeing then returning to scene and burning his hands on a door sounds a bit weird.

Hopefully there is CCTV

There has to be, even if they can't access the Synagogue's CCTV yet, it's surrounded by commercial buildings and multiple storeyed flats at the rear.

It's not exactly completely dead there that time of the morning either, there will be dashcam footage.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I see flies are still bad in Melbourne...

 

[faible]

Can’t wait for Dogs to explain this one.

 

[ZEV]

There has to be, even if they can't access the Synagogue's CCTV yet, it's surrounded by commercial buildings and multiple storeyed flats at the rear.

It's not exactly completely dead there that time of the morning either, there will be dashcam footage.

My brother in law used to live in the brown apartments across the street.

It is deathly quiet around there that time of the morning.

 

[Kurve]

My brother in law used to live in the brown apartments across the street.

It is deathly quiet around there that time of the morning.

I used to go home that way early hours of the morning, back in the day. On second thought though, the Synagogue is listed as on Glen Eira Avenue and I'm pretty sure I was on Glen Eira Road. Is there a difference?

But I might be thinking more of the Caulfield end not as far down as Ripponlea.

I hope they're caught soon.

 

[faible]

I used to go home that way early hours of the morning, back in the day. On second thought though, the Synagogue is listed as on Glen Eira Avenue and I'm pretty sure I was on Glen Eira Road. Is there a difference?

But I might be thinking more of the Caulfield end not as far down as Ripponlea.

Glen Eira Ave is off Glen Eira Rd near the train line

 

[ZEV]

I used to go home that way early hours of the morning, back in the day. On second thought though, the Synagogue is listed as on Glen Eira Avenue and I'm pretty sure I was on Glen Eira Road. Is there a difference?

But I might be thinking more of the Caulfield end not as far down as Ripponlea.

If you are heading towards Brighton road on Glen Eira Rd. it's the last right just before the train tracks at Ripponlea station.

It's tucked in on the corner of Glen Eira Ave and Oak Grv. Theres not a lot of thoroughfare through there at all because of the railway line.

 

[Kurve]

If you are heading towards Brighton road on Glen Eira Rd. it's the last right just before the train tracks at Ripponlea station.

It's tucked in on the corner of Glen Eira Ave and Oak Grv. Theres not a lot of thoroughfare through there at all because of the railway line.

I see the map now, I've confused it with Glen Eira Road.

 

[DapperDon]

I see the map now, I've confused it with Glen Eira Road.

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It's fairly quiet considering the roads that surround it, not sure now but it used to be an area that those who attended that synagogue lived in, it was there own little community where they mostly kept to themselves.

I used to cut through it going from Glen Eira road to Balaclava road back in the day.

 

[manicpie]

If you are heading towards Brighton road on Glen Eira Rd. it's the last right just before the train tracks at Ripponlea station.

It's tucked in on the corner of Glen Eira Ave and Oak Grv. Theres not a lot of thoroughfare through there at all because of the railway line.

It was a beautiful synagogue but now it's a burnt relic. Where is the outrage from our PM. Oh that's right, he's more concerned about winning the S/W Sydney's Islamic vote.