Swastika at elderly care home
AN AUSTRALIAN neo-Nazi group has posted a swastika at the entrance of a Jewish elderly persons’ home in Melbourne.
The Antipodian Resistance organisation placed stickers of their logo on the gates of Emmy Monash Aged Care, which is home to elderly Jewish community members including Holocaust survivors, in the heartland of Victoria’s Jewish Community.
“The members of Antipodean Resistance see themselves as some kind of elite, the would-be dictators of Australia,” Anton Block, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) told the JC.
“In truth, they are cowards of the lowest moral quality. They hide behind their anonymity and, as this latest incident reveals, are prepared to sink as low as targeting the elderly and the infirm, and tormenting aged Holocaust survivors in their twilight years.
“The authorities need to crack down and prosecute them for inciting genocide and other forms of raciallymotivated violence.”
He added that the ECAJ had been monitoring the activities of the clan-
destine Antipodian Resistance for some years.
The group was formed in October 2016 and makes extensive use of Nazi symbols and actions. In one poster it made a call to “legalise the execution of Jews”.
“I am sure that it would be painful and horrifying for [the Holocaust survivor residents] and for their families to hear about the public displays of neo-Nazism in Caulfield, which they probably thought they would never see in their own lifetime,” said Dvir Abramovich, who chairs the Anti-Defamation Commission in Australia.
Nicole Warner, a senior sergeant at Victoria Police, told the Herald Sun that the “offensive symbol” at the home was being investigated.