Australia’s Special Envoy to combat anti-Semitism, Jillian Segal, has suggested that those who intimidate the Jewish community should face jail time.
This comes amid a spate of anti-Semitic incidents targeting the Jewish community, including the firebombing of the Adass Synagogue in Melbourne.
“We do need to consider these activities of harassing Jewish people, infecting our community with hate and attacking places of worship and other places, in order to intimidate the Jewish community should result in jail time,” Segal told Sky News.
“Those considering the offences are looking at them in isolation. We need to see them as a pattern of behaviour infected within an aggravated factor of hate against the Jewish people.”…
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