Overview

• Victoria police are investigating the antisemitic messages scrawled on Congregation Emanu-El after officers documented the scene and coordinated its removal.
• British Columbia’s Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger confirmed an expansion of the province’s Hate Crimes Unit to aggressively investigate and charge perpetrators of hate-motivated offenses.
• The vandalism included genocidal threats and slurs branding Jews as “child-killing Jew-monsters.”
• In Australia, Victoria Police continue to search for a lone suspect seen on CCTV repeatedly defacing the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation with antisemitic slogans.
• Jewish community leaders condemned the incidents as evidence of a growing transnational surge in antisemitic violence and called for stronger legal protections.