Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country, police said. Australia Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw was meeting on Wednesday with state police chiefs to discuss an increase in antisemitic crime in Australia since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7 2023.

An Australian state has committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes after a childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Michele Goldman denounced the antisemetic attack on a Sydney daycare centre as “so sad and so disturbing”.