Anti-Semitic flyers in Sydney letterboxes
Anti-Semitic flyers have been dropped in eastern Sydney letterboxes only weeks after a group of schoolchildren were racially abused on a bus in the area, a Jewish community figure says.
Several Bondi and Double Bay residents found the racist missives on Monday morning, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Vic Alhadeff told AAP.
"The content is a scurrilous compilation of racist stereotypes, which is all too predictable from neo-Nazi organisations," he told AAP on Tuesday.
NSW opposition leader John Robertson said the flyers were abhorrent and had no place in Australia.
The flyer says: "Jews have been kicked out of countries 109 times through history. Could it be that having them in a European country is harmful to the host?"
It also mentions a neo-Nazi group whose motto is "white pride world wide", according to its website.
Mr Alhadeff said anti-Semitism had been on "a disturbing rise" in Australia.
"It is evident from the verbal assault of schoolchildren on a bus to swastikas on our streets," he said.
On August 7, six drunk teenagers told children as young as five "Heil Hitler, kill the Jews ... we're going to cut your throats," as they rode a school bus to Bondi Junction.
Police later said it appeared to be a random, untargeted incident but several Jewish schools put guardians on school buses as a precaution.
Further information is being sought from police, who are reportedly investigating the flyers.
"The racist, anti-semitic leaflets distributed in Bondi today are not just a crude and vicious attempt to intimidate and insult the Jewish community, these leaflets seek to undermine the security and the harmony of Australia and hence of all Australians," said local federal MP Malcolm Turnbull on his website.
"The leaflets and those responsible for them should be condemned for this hateful and un-Australian behaviour."
