Swastikas and vile slogans have been scrawled on playgrounds, public property and people’s homes in the latest surge of anti-Semitic graffiti attacks from neo-Nazis.
Over the past week, bins and walls along Hawthorn Rd in Caulfield and Carlisle St in St Kilda were plastered with offensive slogans likening Jews to “insane same-sex paedophiles” and labelling them “just like Sodom”.
It comes after a playground at EE Gunn Reserve was also targeted with swastikas early last month.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said the brazen and highly offensive graffiti had left the local Jewish community — which sits as high as 40 per cent in some parts of Caulfield and Elsternwick — feeling vulnerable and unsafe.
“It leaves people frightened when walking the streets of Caulfield, and (the offenders’) objective is to leave fear in the hearts of people,” Dr Abramovich said.
“It tells people they’re exposed and the neo-Nazis aren’t going away but we need to stand up and speak out and not allow the haters to win.”
Read the article by Emma-Jayne Schenk, Bayside Leader in the Herald Sun.