Melbourne, Australia Synagogue Firebombed With Worshipers Inside

A Melbourne, Australia, synagogue was firebombed on Friday morning — with worshipers inside at the time.

“Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) crews were called to the scene around 4:10 a.m., finding the single-story synagogue engulfed in flames,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “According to ABC News, 60 firefighters and 17 firetrucks worked tirelessly to bring the fire under control within an hour.”

Meanwhile, in Sydney, a Jewish man was detained and accused of “antagonizing” pro-Palestinian activists who were targeting the synagogue in front of which the Jewish man stood after he waved an Israeli flag across the street.

“I unequivocally condemn the attack on a Melbourne synagogue,” Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “I have zero tolerance for antisemitism. It has absolutely no place in Australia.”

Yet Albanese and his Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, abandoned Israel earlier this week, shifted the government’s position, and split with the U.S., endorsing a UN resolution that demanded Israel end its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible” and “calls for the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem.”

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That resolution, which made no demand for Hamas to return the Israeli hostages it holds, would mean Israel would have to withdraw from Judaism’s holiest place, the Temple Mount, and the Western wall that served as a retaining wall around the Biblical Holy Temple.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton slammed the decision, saying, “I think the prime minister stands condemned … it’s for votes. He sold the Jewish community out for ‘green’ votes.’ They have been prepared to sacrifice the wellbeing of the Jewish community here in Australia to do so.” A new poll from Accent Research and Redbridge Group found that Dutton would likely replace Albanese as Prime Minister next year. “It found the Dutton-led Coalition is on track to pick up at least nine seats and win an outright majority, pointing to a potential defeat for the Albanese government,” Sky News reported.

“They’re hard-Left extremists, that’s what they are,” Michael Kroger, former Liberal Party president, said. “Albanese, Wong, these people are of the hard Labor Left. It’s time for the UN to sit down and tell the world: What type of Palestinian state are we looking at? What we know is this: It’s not going to be a democracy, right? Because Hamas and Fatah don’t have (legitimate) elections. There’s not going to be freedom of the press in a Palestinian state. They’re not going to be freedom of religion unless you’re a Sunni. They won’t recognize Israel’s right to exist. There’s no rights for gays; there’s hatred of Americans, there’s ‘Death to America, death to the West.’ … A Palestinian state, on the basis of everything I’ve seen, is going to be like an Iranian theocracy, run by the Sunni rather than the Shia.”

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