swastika painted on playground equipment

Swastikas painted on play equipment at McKinnon Reserve

SWASTIKAS have been spray painted at a popular playground in the heart of a large Jewish community.

The incident at McKinnon Reserve yesterday follows similar anti-Semitic attacks in St Kilda and Balaclava last month where a neo-Nazi group, which the Leader has chosen not to name, put up more than 100 swastikas flyers at a primary school and on poles in the area.

Caulfield-based Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said the rise in white-supremacist activity, particularly in areas with large Jewish communities, was “outrageous and shocking”.

“There is something very troubling and unsettling happening in our country with a dramatic surge of white-Supremacist graffiti and activities as right-wing extremists are spreading their cancer of hate,” he said.

Read the full article by Jordy Atkinson at The Caulfield Glen Eira Leader.