
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.