[IsraelTimes] 27-year-old Tarek Zahabe is charged with directing at least four incidents in January, including vandalism and arson on Jewish schools and the home of a Jewish leaderAustralia’s New South Wales police said Wednesday they charged the alleged ringleader of a string of antisemitic attacks that shook Sydney’s Jewish community earlier this year, including attacks on Jewish schools and the privately-owned home of a Jewish leader.
The announcement was the latest breakthrough in recent weeks for Sherlocks, who have spent months searching for suspects for different attacks on Jewish targets in Australia without success.
Last month, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed intelligence that Iran
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was behind a pair of antisemitic arson attacks in the country in 2024. Police also recently arrested suspects for an arson attack on Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue in December.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the official gave no indication that the suspect, identified as 27-year-old Tarek Zahabe, was connected to Iran, and it appeared he had been acting independently.
Police said Wednesday that Zahabe was arrested in July and accused of orchestrating the January attacks. The arrests followed months of investigations by Strike Force Pearl, a police task force established earlier this year in Sydney to investigate the antisemitic attacks.
Investigators said Zahabe was responsible for attacking a child-care center near the Maroubra Synagogue, which was set on fire and vandalized with antisemitic graffiti on January 21. He was also charged with vandalizing a Jewish school in Maroubra with antisemitic slurs on January 30.
Earlier that month, on January 17, Zahabe was accused of ordering an attack on the former home of Jewish community leader Alex Ryvchin. The house was splashed with red paint, and several cars outside were set on fire, with antisemitic graffiti scrawled across one burned-out vehicle.
Police confirmed on Thursday that Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), was intentionally targeted in that attack, something they hadn’t conceded previously.
Police have also charged Zahabe and an alleged accomplice, 26-year-old Kye Pickering, in relation to an incident on January 10, when the Allawah synagogue was defaced. Detectives say Zahabe directed and assisted Pickering in carrying out the vandalism.
Zahabe faces two counts of participating in a criminal group to contribute to criminal activity and knowingly or recklessly directing a criminal group to assist in crime. Pickering has been charged with knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol without excuse, destroying or damaging property worth more than $2,000, and participating in a criminal group.
Both men are scheduled to appear in court on October 30.
"We thank the NSW Police for their tireless effort and determination in bringing these alleged offenders to justice," the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies said on social media following the arrests. "Many in the community will sleep more soundly in the knowledge that at least some of these attackers are no longer a threat."
Anti-Jewish activity in Australia skyrocketed after Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...gunnies launched the war against Israel on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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. Some 2,062 incidents were recorded between October 2023 and September 2024, compared to 495 incidents a year earlier, according to data from ECAJ.
Australian Jews have been frustrated by what they say has been the government’s failure to rein in attacks and
The country’s recent decision to recognize a Paleostinian state at the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
General Assembly in September has aggravated a growing sense of alienation among the country’s 120,000-strong Jewish community and sparked a sharp war of words between Albanese’s government and Israeli officials.
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