Parks sullied with graffiti
The words "Israel free Palestine" were scrawled on a cement wall in Tingira Memorial Park in Rose Bay.
Graffiti with disturbing antisemitic messages was spotted by Jewish passers-by in two different parks on August 24 in the Woollahra Local Government Area, reported to the local council, and promptly removed.
The words “Israel free Palestine” were scrawled on a cement wall in Tingira Memorial Park in Rose Bay – a park dedicated to the memory of all who served in the navy training vessel HMAS Tingira, which was moored off Rose Bay from 1912 to 1927.
And on a wooden railing along 60m of fence at Christison Park in Vaucluse, phrases were drawn in green capital letters, including ‘Sanction Israel + the far right for their crimes against Judaism, God + the world’.
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) CEO Michele Goldman told The AJN, “No member of the Jewish community should be forced to walk past messages of hate in their own neighbourhood”.
“Since July, we’ve worked with councils across the state to ensure the removal of more than 20 instances of antisemitic graffiti.
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