Sydney synagogue and house targeted with swastikas and anti ...

Police are investigating after offensive graffiti was found spray-painted on a synagogue and a house in Sydney.

About 7:30am on Saturday morning, police were notified after graffiti was spray-painted on a synagogue on Georgina Street, Newtown in Sydney's inner west.

Warning: This story contains an image of a Nazi symbol.

Several red swastikas were painted along the front fence of the place of worship.

Images released by NSW Police show two people, one on a bike, wearing light coloured shoes, black hoodies and dark clothing outside the building.

On Friday morning, the Allawah synagogue in southern Sydney was vandalised with several swastikas spray-painted onto exterior walls in what police have described as "offensive" graffiti.

Also on Saturday morning, officers attended a house on Henry Street, Queens Park in Sydney's east, after being notified about 6:30am that an anti-Semitic slur had been spray-painted on the front of the property.

The words "F*** Jews" were sprayed on the outside of the home, in the second incident on the street this week.

[Image: Queens Park]

On Monday, the same phrase was scrawled on the side of a white car, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemning the incident saying "anti-Semitism is a scourge". 

Police have launched investigations into each of today's incidents.

It follows a number of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti incidents in Sydney's east in recent weeks.

A police investigation has also commenced into offensive comments written on a poster on Marrickville Road in Marrickville.

Funding boost for security after vandalism

David Ossip, president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, said the targeting of synagogues should "sicken us all".

"No-one should think that these are just acts of vandalism," he said.

"These hate-filled cretins need to know that they will not succeed."

NSW Premier Chris Minns on Saturday announced a $340,000 grant to the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies to contribute towards enhanced temporary security measures.

On the graffiti, Mr Minns said that "these acts designed to intimidate and divide will not work".

"These people are determined to divide our community in two. We will always call out these acts for what they are — monstrous and appalling."

Dvir Abramovich, chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, described the incidents as "terrorism against our Jewish community".

"When Nazi symbols appear once, it's horrifying. When they appear twice in rapid succession, it's a crisis demanding immediate action," he said.