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.

Victoria Police withdrew from participating in this year's Midsumma Pride March following organisers' "trauma-informed" trial ban on uniforms.

The words "evil" and "dogs" have been scratched into a stone memorial to fallen police in another act of vandalism on statues and monuments.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country, police said on Wednesday.

Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales, emphasized that the operation targeting these antisemitic crimes is “just getting started.”

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 ...

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.

Police are investigating how Nazi symbols were drawn on billboards erected by a Nationals politician in regional NSW. Swastikas were discovered to have been sketched on outdoor advertising boards belonging to federal Nationals candidate for Calare Sam Farraway,

Police are investigating after Nazi symbols were graffitied on a federal Nationals candidate's billboards in the NSW central west.

The police said they were investigating whether “overseas actors” were involved in the vandalizing of synagogues and a day care center.

Detectives in Australia are investigating whether foreign actors paying criminals are behind the recent string of antisemitic attacks.