MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian state committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes, officials said on Tuesday after a childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue.

Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country, police said. Australia Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw was meeting on Wednesday with state police chiefs to discuss an increase in antisemitic crime in Australia since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7 2023.

One person suffered burn injuries in a fire that was set at a Melbourne ... center fire, New South Wales Police said the number of detectives working for Strike Force Pearl, which was formed ...

Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales, emphasized that the operation targeting these antisemitic crimes is “just getting started.”

and one person suffered burn injuries in the fire that was set at a Melbourne synagogue in December. Acting New South Police Wales Police Commissioner Peter Thurtell said Strike Force Pearl ...

Acting New South Police Wales Police Commissioner Peter Thurtell said Strike Force Pearl, which was formed several months ago to investigate antisemitic crimes in Sydney, ''will have its resources ...

Nazi symbols have been graffitied onto a politician's billboard in the New South Wales central west. Warning: This story contains an image of a Nazi symbol. Swastikas were on Tuesday found to have ...

Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours one Sunday in late October.

The police have offered no evidence of any connection between recent arson and graffiti attacks and the mass opposition to the Australian government-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Police are investigating how Nazi symbols were drawn on billboards erected by a Nationals politician in regional NSW. Swastikas were discovered to have been sketched on outdoor advertising boards belonging to federal Nationals candidate for Calare Sam Farraway,

Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country, police said on Wednesday.

The police said they were investigating whether “overseas actors” were involved in the vandalizing of synagogues and a day care center.