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Politics
Jack Gramenz

Division and blame alleged after synagogue arson

Benjamin Netanyahu blames Labor's "extreme anti-Israeli position" for the Melbourne synagogue fire. (Getty Images/AAP PHOTOS)

A widely condemned arson attack on a synagogue has been called domestic terrorism and an act of anti-Semitism which goes against everything Australia has worked to build as a nation.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blaming the attack on the federal government supporting an end to the Jewish state's occupation of Gaza was a baseless and desperate attempt at dividing and scapegoating, Palestine advocates said.

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