‘How low can you go?’: fear and disgust after antisemitic attack on Sydney childcare centre

‘It’s very close to home. To smell the fire here, it’s shocking,’ says Nick Klein, a Maroubra synagogue member. Photograph: Daisy Dumas/The Guardian

The news of another antisemitic incident is a “punch in the guts” for Australia’s Jewish community, but an arson attack on a Sydney daycare centre has created a heightened sense of anxiety.

Only About Children, a non-religious daycare centre near the Maroubra synagogue and Mount Sinai college, was set alight and graffitied in the early hours of Tuesday.