Police said they believed the women were targeted by three young men in a silver Mazda that crashed onto a kerb with the engine running on Saturday night. The car contained a carton of eggs and an empty jerry can.

“We will track you down. What you’ve done last night is highly offensive — it’s criminal.”

Vandals sprayed cars and garage doors in Sydney’s eastern suburbs with antisemitic obscenities, mirroring previous graffiti attacks in the city’s east. Source: AAP / Bianca De Marchi

Latest in series of antisemitic attacks

Newman said under his command 11 arrests have been made, 66 charges laid and 12 investigations commenced in recent months, with some of the attacks linked.

The Australian Federal Police is investigating whether overseas actors paid local criminals to carry out the anti-Semitic attacks.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has taken aim at big tech companies for “radicalising” young people as yet another string of anti-Jewish graffiti has appeared in Sydney overnight. Source: Getty / Tracey Nearmy

Dutton concerned about internet ‘propaganda’

“Our kids are on their devices constantly, the same rules should apply online as they do in the real world,” he told ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday.

Asked about the responsibility of X owner Elon Musk for this radicalisation, Dutton said he “had a battle for over a decade against people like Elon Musk and [Meta CEO] Mark Zuckerberg and others who were making money out of our kids”, which he said needed to be done in a “responsible way”.

Prime minister did ‘nothing’ about antisemitism, Dutton claims

“To this very day, the universities haven’t given a proper account of how that was allowed to continue on,” he said.

Federal and state police had investigated and charged people over the waving of terrorist flags at protests.

Dutton accused of ‘playing politics’

The Opposition leader has been criticised by some Jewish community leaders for ignoring the voices of Jews who were critical of Israel and using the community as a political football.