PoliticsNow: AFP investigating 'crypto crooks for hire' in anti-Semitism probe

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw says anti-Semitic offenders waging terror against Jewish Australians could be local criminals being paid by overseas actors as national cabinet launches new initiative to curb the increased violence.

Members of the local Jewish community in the southern Sydney suburb of Maroubra arrive with their children at the childcare centre which last night was firebombed in an anti-Semitic attack Picture: Julian Andrews

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