Australian authorities have called a spate of anti-semitic graffiti sprayed across Sydney “monstrous” after more properties were defaced earlier today, AFP reports.

Vandals spray painted red swastikas outside the entrance to an inner-city synagogue overnight, police said, while a house in Sydney’s affluent east was daubed with anti-Jewish slurs.

Early yesterday, vandals had painted swastikas on another synagogue in a different part of Sydney.

“These people are determined to divide our community in two,” state Premier Chris Minns said. “We will always call out these acts for what they are — monstrous and appalling.”

Masked arsonists torched a Melbourne synagogue in December, prompting the government to create a federal task force targeting anti-Semitism.

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