Police have arrested and charged a man after he allegedly made anti-Semitic threats during a flight from Bali to Sydney.
The 19-year-old from Sydney has been charged with making anti-Semitic threats and gesticulating in a manner indicative of violence towards another person, who he knew was part of the Jewish community.
Australian Federal Police officers arrested the man after he landed at Sydney International Airport on Wednesday and charged him with threatening violence or violence against members of groups.
He was refused bail and will appear in the NSW Local Bail Division Court on Thursday.
Law enforcement has been on alert for anti-Semitic incidents in the wake of Sunday’s terror attack at a Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach.
Two officers, including a probationary officer who had been on the job for four months, were seriously injured while responding to the attack.
NSW Police arrested and charged a man on Tuesday for allegedly displaying a Nazi symbol on a boat in the Lake Macquarie area, north of Sydney.
Sydney and Melbourne have suffered a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in recent years, with synagogues and other Jewish community spaces sprayed with offensive graffiti or firebombed.
Australia’s Security Intelligence Organization has determined that Iran orchestrated at least two of the attacks, on a Jewish kosher deli in Bondi and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne.
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