Jewish school, house in Maroubra vandalised with graffiti in latest antisemitic attack
In short:
A Jewish school and a home in Maroubra have been tagged with antisemitic graffiti.
It's the latest in a string of antisemitic attacks that have occurred across Sydney.
What's next?
Police are investigating.
NSW Police are investigating after a Jewish school in Sydney's eastern suburbs was spray painted with antisemitic graffiti overnight.
The Mount Sinai College and a property next door in Maroubra were targeted.
One wall was tagged with "Jews are real terrorists".
Antisemitic graffiti sprayed on a wall at a Jewish school. (Supplied: NSW Jewish Board of Deputies)
A NSW Police spokesperson told ABC News that Eastern Beaches Police are aware of and are responding to the incident.
It is the latest in a string of antisemitic attacks that have occurred across Sydney's east since October.
The school is located around the corner from the Only About Children childcare centre, which was set alight and graffitied with antisemitic words last week.
The Mount Sinai College and a nearby property were targeted. (ABC News: Greg Bigelow)
NSW Premier Chris Minns condemned those behind the vandalism of the school.
"Another naked example of racism in our community, completely antithetical to everything that Australia represents in 2025," he told ABC News Breakfast.
"I think it's just appalling that there's evil people in our community that attack someone else, a complete stranger, on the basis of their race or religion."
A house next to the school was also targeted. (ABC News: Greg Bigelow)
The premier said the government would "throw all our resources at tracking down people responsible for malicious damage, for hate crimes".
"The vast, vast majority of Australians stand united against this appalling behaviour and condemn it completely," he said.
NSW Premier Chris Minns said the incident was "another naked example of racism in our community". (ABC News: Nick Dole)
Later in the day, the premier said the graffiti "tells you everything you need to know about how appalling these bastards are".
"There are some terrible people in our community. I'm ashamed to say it, but that's the truth," he said.
"Bad morals, bad ethics, bad people that will commit these acts."
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said there were three acts of antisemitic vandalism across Sydney overnight including the school as well as graffiti on the side of a house on Eastlakes and the Eastgardens Shopping Centre.
Antisemitic graffiti was sprayed at Eastgardens Shopping Centre in Sydney's east. (ABC News)
Antisemitic graffiti on a house at Eastlakes. (ABC News)
The premier implored the public to come forward if they had any information about the attacks.
'Grotesque and absolutely sickening'
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip said the graffiti was "vile and hateful".
"Looking at the images now, it is just grotesque and absolutely sickening that school children are going to have to walk past this repellent hate speech as they make their way into school," he told ABC Radio Sydney.
"This is something we should not tolerate here in Australia."
Mr Ossip added that the incident "was not just vandalism" but was part of a "campaign of intimidation, harassment and menacing, which has targeted the Jewish community".
Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Peter Wertheim said authorities had no control over the rise of antisemitic attacks.
"Just this morning, yet again, we wake up to the news that a Jewish school in Maroubra was being targeted with hateful antisemitic graffiti," he said.
"That just feeds the impression that the authorities don't have this under control."
Security measures under review
Randwick City Council Mayor Dylan Parker told ABC Radio Sydney students are scheduled to return to the school tomorrow.
"Rightfully they're very shaken and feeling targeted right now," he said.
Cr Parker said police will meeting with the local synagogue and the school community this afternoon "in what was already a pre-planned meeting".
"We've engaged a security consultant alongside Waverley and Woollahra, to investigate security around local Jewish institutions,"he said.
It comes hours after explosives were found in a caravan in Sydney's north west, with police saying there were threats linked to the Jewish community.