Commissioner Reece Kershaw revealed that investigators are examining whether overseas actors may be funding these attacks. Some payments might even involve cryptocurrency, complicating the investigation.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday the country was investigating whether recent attacks in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods were carried out by 'paid actors.'

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited a daycare centre that was firebombed and scrawled with graffiti in the latest suspected anti-Semitic attack in Sydney.

A Sydney, Australia childcare center was set on fire and vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on Tuesday morning, in the second such incident in four days. The attack took place around 1:00am local time in the city's east, near a Jewish school and synagogue.

Australia has been grappling with a spate of antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war in late 2023.

Detectives in Australia are investigating whether foreign actors paying criminals are behind the recent string of antisemitic attacks.

Australia's federal police have said they are investigating whether "overseas actors or individuals" are paying criminals to carry out antisemitic crimes in the country. There has been a spate of such incidents in recent months,

Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country, police said. Australia Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw was meeting on Wednesday with state police chiefs to discuss an increase in antisemitic crime in Australia since the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7 2023.