An arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne last week is being investigated as terrorist incident, Australian officials said Monday, as the government announced it was establishing a new taskforce to combat antisemitism.

Arsonists have extensively damaged a Melbourne synagogue in what Australia’s prime minister has condemned as an antisemitic attack.Police says a witness who had come to Adass Israel Synagogue to pray saw two masked people spreading an unknown accelerant inside the building before dawn on Friday.