Alleged 🤣

"[O]wner #CandyBerger said she did not discover the #Nazi symbol until she removed the covering earlier this week.

“Today we wanted to cover it all up again,” she wrote in an #Instagram post.

“I stood there in shock, thinking about what that symbol represents. What it has meant to my people … I am the granddaughter of a #Holocaust survivor, and today felt like a punch that landed deeper than most.”

Lox in a Box was founded in #Bondi and has sites in #Coogee and #Marrickville. The business had been painting and renovating the #Paddington site ahead of its opening on 9 April.

The etching is the latest in a string of alleged #antisemitic incidents in #Sydney’s east in the wake of the Hamas attack on #7October 2023 and Israel’s war in #Gaza.

Cars had been set alight and houses vandalised in the area, which is home to many #Jewish Australians, before the #terrorist shooting that killed 15 at a #Bondibeach #Hanukah event in December."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/27/swastika-lox-in-a-box-paddington-sydney-ntwnfb

Swastika found scratched into window of Jewish bagel shop in Sydney

Police investigate damage at Lox in a Box, Paddington, latest in string of alleged antisemitic incidents in wake of Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 and Israel’s war in Gaza

The Guardian