Netanyahu claims Melbourne synagogue attack linked to Albanese government’s ‘anti-Israel position’

In a post to social media, Benjamin Netanyahu said the fire at a Ripponlea synagogue and the Albanese government’s ‘extreme anti-Israeli position’ were ‘impossible to separate’. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

The Australian government’s support for a UN resolution calling for an end to Israel’s occupation of Gaza is to blame for a widely condemned arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, the Jewish state’s prime minister says.

“It is impossible to separate the reprehensible arson attack from the federal government’s extreme anti-Israeli position,” the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, posted on social media early on Saturday.