Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Authorities in Australia are investigating the defacement of a Sydney synagogue as a potential arson attack, marking the latest crime targeting the Oceania's Jewish community in recent weeks.

Sydney police are investigating after offensive graffiti was found spray-painted on a synagogue and a house. It follows a series of anti-Semetic graffiti incidents in the city.

Police taskforce investigates antisemitic attack on Sydney synagogue, part of rising trend of hate crimes in Australia.

A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti, police said on Saturday, a day after the antisemitic vandalism of a separate synagogue in the New South Wales state capital. Australia has seen a series of antisemitic incidents in the last year, including graffiti on buildings and cars in Sydney,…

A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti on Friday, police said, the latest in a spate of incidents targeting Jews in Australia. Police will deploy a special taskforce to investigate the attack on the Southern Sydney Synagogue in the suburb of Allawah that happened in the early hours…