Jewish bakery in Sydney facing ‘ceaseless’ antisemitism closes amid safety fears

Posting a screenshot of a slew of one-star Google reviews that had appeared on their Instagram feed since the attack, the deli’s owner Candy Berger wrote: “This is what I woke to in my inbox... It’s so disheartening, where’s our collective humanity? Antisemitism is not a joke.. posting negative antisemitic reviews can really harm a small business like ours.”

Speaking to Australia’s Daily Telegraph about the aftermath of Sunday’s attack, Halmagyi said: “The first thing I had to do was remove stickers from the outside of the business saying ‘Jews kill babies’ and ‘go back to where you came from’.

“Later in the day the police came by to give us an update on some existing threats to myself and to the business and how they’re progressing… [then] a guy drove past in his pick up with a couple of kids in the back seat … and spewed the most extraordinary bile at me and my staff in front of 40 or 50 customers who all witnessed it.”

Announcing Avner’s closure on the posters, he wrote: “As an open and very public business that operates at all hours, we are unable to ensure the safety of our staff, our customers, our families. We have made the only decision available, one that truly breaks our hearts.”