DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

NIC WHITE

A man’s home has been sprayed with swastikas and SS symbols in a shocking anti-semitic Christmas Day attack.

The swastikas appeared on the brick fence, driveway, and front door of the house in Elsternwick, in Melbourne on Monday morning.

The homeowner later covered up the racist symbols with newspaper but was rattled by the apparently targeted attack.

‘What’s this place coming too?’ a man wrote in disgust as he posted the photos to a Jewish Facebook group.

The racist vandals managed to get past a brick fence and steel gate to spray the symbols on the wood and glass door at the end of the long driveway.

The vandalism follows similar graffiti being sprayed at other locations around Melbourne that was also photographed.

Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, told Daily Mail Australia the act was alarming.

‘We decry this disturbing act of bigotry which is an attack on the decency of all Australians,’ Dr Abramovich said.

‘I am alarmed by the growing level of malicious anti-Semitic vandalism and graffiti which constitutes a matter of great concern. It fits a pattern of increased racist crimes targeting the Jewish community. 

‘The Nazi swastika is a universal symbol of hate that represents pure evil, and is meant to intimidate and instill fear within religious, ethnic and cultural groups. This type of hate has no place in Australia, and such cowardly attacks are repugnant and are a gross violation of our values. 

‘There is no doubt that the spike in these threatening incidents, which traumatise the victims and create a climate of fear, serves as a sad reminder that anti-Semitism and racism are on the rise, and the message that must be conveyed by leaders across the political and religious spectrum is that this type of intimidating bigotry will not be tolerated. 

‘We must all say enough is enough, not in our city, and do all we can to combat this cancer.’