Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs A suspicious fire has torn through a synagogue in Melbourne’s south-east.Two people were forced to flee the Adass Israel synagogue after a blaze ripped through the synagogue on Glen Eira Avenue at Ripponlea about 4.10am.Neighbours called triple-zero and fire crews arrived to find the entire single-storey building alight.While the cause of the fire was still under investigation, politicians have already weighed in on the incident.Sixty firefighters and 17 firetrucks had the fire under control just before 5am on Friday.Credit: Simon SchluterEducation Minister Jason Clare said it was “pretty clear” from the reporting that “this is not an accident”.“This is a deliberate act of violence, an attack on a place of worship. Let’s call it out, there is no place for this in Australia,” he told Seven’s Sunrise.Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, also speaking to Sunrise, said she “feels for the Jewish community today”.Loading“It makes me feel quite sick to the stomach. We’re a strong, multicultural nation, we often say the best in the world, but it doesn’t feel like that right now.“It feels like that harmony is being tested and I think Australians are anxious about a country where what we had so strongly in the past feels to be fraying at the edges.”Meanwhile, Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie told ABC’s RN Breakfast the incident was “appalling”.“The Holocaust didn’t start with Jews being herded into cattle trucks. It actually started with antisemitism becoming normalised on the streets of a modern and progressive Berlin,” McKenzie said.“And here we are in a modern, progressive society like Australia, and we’ve got schoolchildren being harassed on their way to school, Jewish businesses being boycotted, and now Jewish places of worship being set alight.”Read more about this developing breaking news story here.
