Sydney has experienced several anti-Semitic attacks, mainly in Sydney's eastern suburbs where many Jewish people live, which have been met with widespread community outrage and a heavy police response.
So that’s interesting. It might go some way to explaining what seems like a sudden onset, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also been driven by a copy-cat phenomenon.
There seems to be a global plague of political interference and stirring up divisions. I would like to know who it is, but we may never be told. I think it’s the wrong tactic from the Aus government, it would greatly diminish the actors power if it were made public.
Police say they’re investigating whether some of these crimes were commissioned by “overseas actors”: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo
So that’s interesting. It might go some way to explaining what seems like a sudden onset, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also been driven by a copy-cat phenomenon.
That article is worth a post of its own for awareness, I reckon. That’s not trivial.
Done: https://aussie.zone/post/17098473
Would probably usually post this sort thing to c/news, but posted in c/Australia seeing as two other articles on the matter were posted there.
There seems to be a global plague of political interference and stirring up divisions. I would like to know who it is, but we may never be told. I think it’s the wrong tactic from the Aus government, it would greatly diminish the actors power if it were made public.