On the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, a home in Sydney’s east was viciously vandalised with signs of anti-Semetic and homophobic messages, as well as vile Nazi imagery.
Owners of a home in Kensington woke on Monday to find themselves the victim of the hateful graffiti attack, with their brick home plastered with spray paint.
Some of the defacing imagery included a Nazi swastika (not pictured), and the Chinese character for the word “day” or “sky”.
Additionally, below the character was a phrase written in German, which translates to: “after the rain comes the sun”.
As well as this, there was also another wall that was tagged with the Star of David and the word “gay”.
The Nazi symbol of the swastika has been outlawed in NSW, with the unreasonable display of it in public potentially earning the offender as much as a year behind bars, and/or an $11K fine.
Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Alex Ryvchin, has said, “the intent is to instil fear in our community, but they will fail.”
Ryvchin also stated that the vile attack is a prime example of the “increasing brazenness of neo-Nazis.”
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