00:00As anti-Semitic and Islamophobic attacks continue across Sydney, community leaders agree policing
00:08the problem is not enough.
00:10Unfortunately we've seen that the response to anti-Semitism has been a policing response
00:17rather than a more serious effort to get to the bottom of racism in Australian society.
00:24That federal government should use their influence in both communities to bring communities together.
00:34Multiple synagogues have been targeted with hate speech in the past two weeks, and yesterday
00:38in Dover Heights, cars were set on fire.
00:42At least one was spray-painted with anti-Semitic slurs, while in Sydney's southwest, this offensive
00:48graffiti was seen scrawled on a supermarket.
00:51These people have the wrong ideas and the wrong ideology and they are only attacking
00:58our fellow Australian citizens.
01:01The government has already flagged tougher laws to tackle hate speech, but many believe
01:06they should focus on rebuilding community relations.
01:10I think that there unfortunately has been this real sense of communities being divided
01:16against each other.
01:18Once we sit down on a round table, then we can discuss the details with the authorities
01:25and with the politicians, and they are late, but it's better late than never.
01:32Whether it's anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or any other form of hate, we don't want it,
01:38there's no place for it here.
01:40So if there's a call to bring people together, I'd be the first one to support that.
01:45With an imminent ceasefire in Gaza, it's hoped tensions here will begin to ease.
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