Vile Jew threat at popular beach at Watsons Bay in Sydney

As the war between Israel and Hamas escalates and the number of cases of anti-Semitic behaviour surges a particularly disturbing incident has emerged.

As the war between Israel and Hamas escalates and the number of cases of anti-Semitic behaviour surges a particularly disturbing incident has come to light on a Sydney beach.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) says the conflict, which began earlier this month, has results in a significant increase in anti-Semitic incidents.

The national intelligence agency has also warned of “spontaneous violence” in Australia sparked by the war in the Middle East.

Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Alex Ryvchin told Ray Hadley on 2GB that families at a popular beach in Watsons Bay on Sunday were forced to witness a man shouting obscenities about Jewish people before threatening to rape a man’s wife.

According to Mr Ryvchin, the man began yelling on the beach: ‘F*** the Jews, F U Jews. Jews, get off the beach.”

The incident happened at a beach at Watsons Bay. Picture Rohan Kelly

“He was then confronted by one Jewish man, at which point the perpetrator threatened to rape his wife in front of him.”

NSW Police confirmed the incident to news.com.au and said an investigation had commenced and inquiries remain ongoing.

Protests ‘problematic’

Mr Ryvchin added while the pro Palestine protests over the weekend appeared peaceful, there was still some anti-Jewish sentiments.

“If we view those protests as peaceful and satisfactory we are setting a very low bar,” he said.

“The same sentiments are still there just expressed through dog whistles and euphemisms.

“They talk about freeing Palestine from the river to the sea which means destroying Israel in its entirely and replacing it with another Arab state is an example of that.”

Proetsts over the weekend in Sydney CBD. Picture: Getty Images

Thennational intelligence agency has warned of “spontaneous violence” in Australia sparked by the war in the Middle East.

Over the weekend former treasurer Josh Frydenberg said was particularly concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism since the war began.

He said he never believed he would feel as his grandparents did amid the rising tide of Jewish hatred that heralded the Holocaust, nor as his parents did amid the threat to Israel posed by the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

“But now I do. I stand before you anguished and anxious about the future,” Mr Frydenberg said in a speech in support of victims of terrorism, an extract of which was published in The Weekend Australia.

“When fears over safety see Jewish students afraid to attend lectures on campus, Jewish parents feel the need to keep their children home from school, and Jewish schools advise students not to wear their uniforms that makes them identifiable outside school grounds we know we have a problem.

“And when hundreds of demonstrators in Sydney chant ‘f..k the Jews’ and ‘gas the Jews’ we know just how dangerous and ­serious that problem really is. What happened last week outside the Sydney Opera House was nothing short of an abomination. A national disgrace that has become an international embarrassment.”