30-04-2025
National Socialist Network: Caulfield residents wake to find anti-Semitic flyer
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Residents in one of Australia's largest Jewish populations woke to find disturbing anti-Semitic flyers — believed to have been authorised by a prominent neo-Nazi group — in their mailboxes on Wednesday.
Several homeowners in Caulfield, in Melbourne's southeast, discovered pamphlets delivered early this morning with the following message: 'Giving the Jews everything they want'.
The flyers display an alerted Liberal Party logo with the Israeli flag inserted within the design, with the bottom of the material claiming to be authorised by the National Socialist Network leader.
On the back of the flyer, a four-point-plan insinuates ways in which the Liberal Party will give the 'Jews everything they want'; including putting 'Israel First', 'Abolish Free Speech', 'Jail anti-Semites' and 'Give Jews Free Money'.
One Caulfield resident, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Herald Sun she was collecting her mail this morning when the flyer immediately caught her eye.
'Obviously there has been a lot of political pamphlets over the last few weeks but this one was definitely designed to stand out, brightly coloured with capitals and bold text and designed to look like 'official' political advertising,' she said.
'It felt brazen, bold, and I felt totally violated and infiltrated.
'To know that a neo-Nazi had brazenly walked around my street, chosen my house, my safe space with my family inside and opened my letterbox to leave something inside with the sole purpose of trying to offend, intimidate and share their hate.'
Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler said Jewish people should be able to feel safe in their own homes, not under threat from extremists who want to harm them.
'Over the last 18 months, ridiculous and hateful conspiracy theories have been spread about Australian Jews,' Mr Leibler said.
'It's dangerous, and it must be rejected by all Australians.'
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said this year's election had spiralled into one of the 'ugliest' in terms of anti-Semitic attacks seen against candidates.
'Now, the Jewish community has to contend with Nazi filth dropped in the area with the highest concentration of Jewish residents in the state, including Holocaust survivors and many of their descendants,' Mr Ryvchin said.
'Nazi sympathisers are an embarrassment to our country and are the lowest of the low.'
He said he trusted police to do their utmost to find those behind the incidents overnight and this morning.
