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2025-01-08 Down Under
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Sydney electric bike sharing program is ‘billboard’ for antisemitism – report
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It’s an ugly culture — petty and mean to create in ways large and small the idea that the dhimmis are or soon will be conquered. [IsraelTimes] Anti-Israel graffiti and swastikas daubed on bicycles in Jewish neighborhoods of Australian city for over a year; community leaders accuse operator Lime of not tackling problem.
Lime doesn’t care, the local and national Labour politicians don’t care… Vandals have turned an electric bike-sharing program in the Australian city of Sydney into a platform to target the local Jewish community with anti-Israel and antisemitic graffiti, with complaints that the bike operators are not doing anything to counter the problem for over a year, a report said Tuesday.
Bikes are being defaced and then driven around or left in neighborhoods with large Jewish populations, the Australian Telegraph newspaper reported.
Speaking truth to power and discomfiting the comfortably smug haters. The bikes are daubed with swastikas or slogans such as “Israel is hell,” “Zionists are Nazis” and “Israel is a terrorist state.”
They have been seen in Bondi, Rose Bay Coogee, Kensington, Maroubra, and Randwick.
Attacks on Australia’s Jewish community have proliferated since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel. Cars and buildings have been vandalized and torched around Australia during protests against Israel that have often targeted the Jewish community, and in December a synagogue was set on fire in Melbourne in what authorities described as a terrorist act.
The Australian Jewish Association told the paper it had received hundreds of complaints about the bikes since the start of the Gaza war.
It claimed that the private company operating the bikes, Lime, has ignored requests to remove the graffiti.
“They are placed in areas where Jewish families live or near synagogues to intimidate the Jewish community,” AJA CEO Robert Gregory said.
“If the graffiti was on a public building, it would be removed but Lime bikes and others have created a loophole that vandals are exploiting,” he charged. “The share bike companies are effectively providing permanent billboards to spread hate and division and target the Jewish community.”
Because a private company is operating the bikes, the council and police are not able to clean up the vandalism, according to the report.
However, a spokeswoman for Lime said the company is taking the matter seriously.
“We are horrified at the anti-Semitic vandalism occurring on buildings, vehicles, and signage across the City and thank every community member for alerting our local teams to vandalism on our e-bikes,” she said.
If the things are rented with a credit card, it’s easy enough to add an additional charge to the last user for collection, cleaning and repainting, and a deliberate damage surcharge. Hit them all up and the problem will stop, especially if some of those charged are not the ones who actually damaged the e-bikes. A class action suit by the Jewish communities against the company would certainly bring the pain home in that quarter as well, if such a thing is possible under Australian law. Or helpfully spray every one that appears a pretty colour to cover up the the offensive language, since the painting the bikes is apparently acceptable. 
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