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.

The explosives located in a caravan could have caused a 'potential mass casualty event', authorities have said.

Australian police believe explosives found on Sydney’s outskirts were evidence of a deadly escalation in a campaign of antisemitic arson and graffiti crimes that has been waged in major cities for months.

SYDNEY: Australian authorities said Wednesday (j=Jan 29) they had seized explosives stored in a caravan in greater Sydney possibly intended for a "mass casualty" anti-Semitic attack.

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 ...

NSW Police are investigating how explosives used to blast underground tunnels and quarries were found in a caravan parked in a quiet residential Sydney suburb.

As three more episodes of antisemitic graffiti were discovered across Sydney on Thursday morning, Australian political leaders warned of an escalation in hatred and decried as terrorism an incident of

Australian authorities say they are investigating links to overseas actors as they crack down on antisemitic violence.

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.

Australia has been grappling with a spate of antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war in late 2023.

Australian police are investigating whether explosives found in a caravan days ago in Sydney, the capital city of Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW), were intended to be used in an antisemitic attack.