Home next to Mount Sinai College in Maroubra school graffitied

A home neighbouring the Mount Sinai College, and just a couple of hundred metres away from a childcare centre firebombed in an earlier anti-Semitic attack, has been smeared in graffiti overnight.

A home neighbouring a Jewish primary school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been attacked with anti-Semitic graffiti the day after it was revealed that police had discovered a caravan laden with explosives on the side of a road on the outskirts of Sydney.

The graffiti, which reads ‘You f..king Jews’, was sprayed on the wall of a residential property located on Hannan street, Maroubra, adjacent to the Mount Sinai College and just a few minutes walk from the childcare centre that was firebombed last week.

It has been reported “Jew dogs’, ‘f..k Jews’ and ‘f..k the Jews’ had been gratified in another location, with a third location also being investigated by police.

Residents of Sydney’s eastern suburbs reported “helicopters non stop over us” at around 1am. Police say the “offensive graffiti” was reported at Maroubra and Eastgardens about 6.45am on Thursday, and graffiti was reported at about 7am at East Lakes.

More than 100 police have been thrown into the investigation after the caravan was found on the outskirts of Sydney packed with Powergel explosives suspected to have been stolen from a mine site and containing a note with the addresses of Jewish targets.

On Wednesday evening, NSW Police scrambled to defend staying silent on the “very serious threat” for more than a week before it leaked to Sydney’s media, saying investigations required “anonymity”, while NSW Premier Chris Minns labelled the incident as “terrorism”.

Police confirmed they had found and taken into custody on January 19 a caravan dumped on the side of a road in Dural, a semirural suburb about 40km northwest of Sydney.

Graffiti sprayed near the Mount Sinai College in Sydney’s Maroubra. Picture: NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

Anti-Defamation Commission Chairman Dvir Abramovich said the attack was a “calculated assault’’.

“In the shadow of a Jewish school, where the laughter of children should echo, we now find words that scream hate and menace,” Dr Abramovich said.

“The vile graffiti is not merely an act of vandalism; it’s a calculated assault, a deliberate and cruel message of fear meant to wound the Jewish community to its core.

“This is a chilling declaration that seeks to strip people of their humanity, to make them feel hunted and unwelcome in their own city. To imagine parents sending their children to learn and grow, only to be met with such abhorrent venom, is to confront a heartbreak no family should endure,” he said.

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