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Jack Gramenz and Luke Costin

Hate crime laws to make anti-Semites 'think twice'

Jewish community leaders have welcomed tough new laws against hate speech and anti-Semitic attacks. (Steven Saphore/AAP PHOTOS)

People intent on stoking hatred and division will be made to think twice before they act, under tougher laws aimed at curbing a spate of anti-Semitic crimes, Jewish leaders say.

Amid escalating anti-Semitic graffiti, firebombings and most recently a thwarted plot targeting the Great Synagogue and the Jewish Museum in central Sydney, the NSW government will make it easier to jail perpetrators for up to two years.

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