Commentators have slammed a move by pro-Palestine protesters to target a Jewish neighbourhood as “unnecessarily inflammatory”.

Organisers of the Melbourne protest group, Free Palestine Coalition Naarm, took to social media to urge followers to join the “peaceful demonstration against Zionist genocidal, colonial expansion” at the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation on Inkerman St in Caulfield North.

Pro-Palestinian protesters have gathered outside a Melbourne synagogue in Caulfield. Sky News Melbourne reporter Georgie Dickerson was live at the centre of the protest. “We’ve had all of the Jewish community actually come out to them,