Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said an arson attack on a synagogue in Australia “cannot be separated” from what he called its government’s “anti-Israel sentiment”, AFP reports.

In a statement, Netanyahu said that “this heinous act cannot be separated from the anti-Israel sentiment emanating from the Australian Labor government,” citing Canberra’s “outrageous decision” in September to vote for a UN resolution that demanded the end of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, and arguing that “anti-Israel sentiment is anti-Semitism”.