Clash erupts involving group of men waving Palestinian flag after ‘they confronted a Jewish man in Bondi’

A group of young men waving the Palestinian flag through the Jewish heart of Sydney allegedly confronted a young Jewish man in his car.

Police were called to the Ampol station on Old South Head Road in North Bondi at around 10.20pm on Wednesday evening following reports of the altercation.

Local residents recalled being awakened by the sound of screaming.

The Australian Jewish Association claims a Jewish man was sitting in his car when he was confronted by four men flying a Palestinian Arab flag on their vehicle.

The organization claimed the man’s car window was smashed and threats of violence were made before police arrived.

AJA president Robert Gregory told Ny Breaking Australia on Thursday that he has spoken to the Jewish man involved in the incident.

“Carloads of young men from the Middle East driving from across town with Palestinian Arab flags looking to provoke violence is a worrying development.

“We have not heard of a single case of carloads of Jews carrying Israeli flags driving around the Lakemba Mosque. Luckily the police came when they did.”

A police source told The Daily Telegraph that a group of young men were spotted by a group of Jewish men driving through the eastern suburbs with a Palestinian flag flying from their car.

It is believed that two teenagers in the car with the flag stopped at a gas station where another car carrying two men made a U-turn and met them there.

Four men who were spoken to by police at the scene (photo) were ordered to move on. No charges have been filed

“Officers arrived and were advised that a group of unknown people were behaving aggressively before leaving the scene,” a police statement said.

No charges have been filed and there have been no reports of injuries.

There are unconfirmed reports that four men spoken to by police at the scene were given leave orders and banned from returning to Bondi.

Police remained at the scene until 5am on Thursday morning to ensure no further incidents occurred.

Officers attended the scene to search for evidence and reportedly seized a number of items, including a hockey stick and tools.

NSW Police have yet to confirm whether the incident was racially motivated, but are expected to provide more details later on Thursday.

The investigation into the incident continues.

Police remained at the Ampol gas station until 5 a.m. on Thursday morning

About two-thirds of Sydney’s Jewish community lives in the eastern suburbs, including Bondi, where police have been called in following a number of recent clashes over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The police (photo) were on site for seven hours and seized a number of items on site

Yesterday mr Dutton called on the Prime Minister not to leave Australia for the APEC summit in San Francisco before ensuring Jewish Australians in the community would be protected.

“The prime minister must not leave this country until the national cabinet has been convened to provide guarantees, support, comfort and security to people of the Jewish community,” he said.

The Prime Minister hit back, saying he had been consistent in his positions in calling for unity.

“The weaponization or attempt to weaponize anti-Semitism in this chamber and make it a party political issue is, quite frankly, beyond contempt,” he said Wednesday.

‘I make no apologies for standing up to anti-Semitism and I will do so unequivocally… I have a track record in this area and I’m proud of it, but I also have a track record of standing up for rights and for justice for the Palestinian people.

“I make no apologies for being a consistent supporter of a two-state solution, nor do I apologize for seeking to bring communities together and not divide them.”

It comes as six federal election offices across the country were targeted by pro-Palestinian protests involving bloodied replicas of corpses from Gaza.

Those targeted included Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and fellow Labor MPs Ged Kearney and Peter Khalil.