A spate of anti-Semitic graffiti is springing up all over parks south of Brisbane, forcing councils to take swift action, and it’s all part of an epidemic sweeping the country, an anti-defamation commission says.
A southside community is taking steps to fortify itself from a nasty Nazi graffiti campaign, which an anti-defamation commission believes is part of a swastika epidemic sweeping the country.
Logan City Council was forced to swiftly clean up dozens of orange and pink spray-painted graffiti of the Nazi symbol left on park walkways, benches, bush shelters, signs and public areas over the past month.
The sickening swastika graffiti was daubed in pink and orange paint in suburbs stretching from Mt Warren Park, Bannockburn, Belivah and Windaroo.
It included anti-Semitic messages and symbols which were all referred to police for investigation.
Residents near Mr Warren Park’s Noyer Park, this week pressed Logan council to act and lodged a petition for closed circuit cameras to be installed in parks in affected suburbs.
Logan residents have called for the council to install five closed circuit cameras in
The country’s leading anti hate campaigner and Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich, said he feared Queensland was in the grips of an anti-Semitic campaign after the spate of graffiti across Logan.
Read the article by Judith Kerr in The Courier-Mail.