Australia's wave of antisemitic attacks and its finding that Iran directed some
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
From late 2024 Australia saw a wave of antisemitic attacks, including the arson of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, which authorities treated as terrorism, and a trailer of explosives found near Sydney.[1][2]In August 2025 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australian intelligence had found that Iran directed at least two of the attacks, and Australia cut off diplomatic relations with Iran.[3]
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In August 2025 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australian intelligence had found that Iran directed at least two of the attacks, and Australia cut off diplomatic relations with Iran.[3]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
14%
Dec 20242026this week
LeftCenterRight
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings.We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 4 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (6 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Aug 25, 2025
5
16
7
28 of 199
14%
Jun 30, 2025
4
2
1
7 of 217
3%
Jan 27, 2025
1
3
1
5 of 223
2%
Jan 20, 2025
1
2
1
4 of 226
2%
Dec 9, 2024
2
8
0
10 of 208
5%
Dec 2, 2024
1
2
1
4 of 228
2%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Aug 25, 2025 · first reported · Headline from The Conversation US
Masked attackers set the Melbourne synagogue ablaze before dawn on a Friday in December 2024,[1] and the government set up a task force to combat antisemitism.[4] In January 2025 federal police investigated whether overseas actors were paying local criminals to commit antisemitic acts,[5] and authorities said they had foiled a potential "mass casualty" attack.[2] In July an arsonist set fire to the door of another Melbourne synagogue.[6] The Bondi Beach massacre in December 2025 is followed in its own arc.
