Federal court orders Sydney Muslim cleric to remove ‘racist and antisemitic’ lectures from social media | Sydney

A Sydney Muslim cleric, the federal court ordered a series of downloads. “Basically racist and anti -Semitic“ The speeches were published online and instructed a judge not to make similar addresses again.

Wissam Haddad, the legal name of William, but also known as Abu Ouesayd, was given a series of Jewish people at the Al Madina Dawah Center in Bankstown in November 2023 by the two senior members of the highest Jews of Australia, the two senior Jews of the Australian Jews.

On Tuesday, Justice Stewart found that Haddad violated the 18C part of the Race Discrimination Law and forbade aggressive behaviors based on race or ethnic origin.

“The Court found that the lessons titled ‘Jews of Al Madina’ have conveyed the possibilities of disturbing, insulting, humiliation and intimidation of Jews in Australia against the Jewish people.

“Impulums contain centuries -old tropics against the Jewish people, who are basically racist and anti -Semitic;

Haddad in his speeches, Ayat From the Qur’an and hadithAnd he described the Jewish people as “naughty”, “traitor” and “inferiority .. The defense said that the court was about historical writings about the Jewish people in Medina in the 7th century AD.

The defense also argued that the courses were given for an educational purpose and that they violated the 18C of 18C because they were not open to the public, but addressed a private Muslim audience.

However, the complainants said that the court used the Haddad’s “clearly inhuman” language about the Jewish people and told me to be “intentionally provocative and inflammatory”. The court heard that the speeches were made with information that they would be published online, and microphones and cameras were established to record them.

Peter Wertheim, one of the plaintiffs in the case and Ecaj co -director, gave Haddad’s speeches as “inferior generalizations, called Jews and a treacherous person, and called them as a rats and coward… I think things to be experienced by most Jews”.

Justice Stewart said that the Jewish people in Australia would find Haddad’s lesson “harassment and frightening ve and worse the effects of the context of the speeches because they continued to conflict in Gaza.

“The lessons were delivered during the period of fragility and fragility by Jews in Australia after the bombing of Israel and the response of Gaza after the attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, and after the solidarity protests and other actions in Australia.”

In his judiciary, Justice Stewart said that the criticism of the actions of Israel or the Israeli Defense Forces is not naturally anti -Semitic.

“Although Israel’s political criticism is inflammatory or hostile, its nature is not in general or the criticism of Jews based on Jewish racial or ethnic identity.

“The conclusion that the criticism of Israel is not anti -Semitic, the accusation of the Jews for Israel’s actions is anti -Semitic, one is flowing from the other.”

The court rejected two constitutional arguments by Haddad: Chapter 2a of the Racial Discrimination Law (Part 18C) was beyond the legislative power of the parliament, because it contradicted the implied freedom of political communication; Or, chapter 116 of the Constitution is contrary to a law that prohibits the free use of any religion ”.

The court ordered Haddad to remove speeches from the internet and not to make similar public addresses in the future. For both parties, lawyers will address the court about the style and statements of any “corrective notification” that must be published.

Wertheim and Robert Good, who filed a joint lawsuit, did not want harm. The court ordered Haddad to pay for the plaintiffs.