{"id":4572,"date":"2026-05-04T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/4572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:45:10","slug":"city-of-sydney-lord-mayor-clover-moore-cancels-globalise-the-intifada-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/4572\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore cancels ‘globalise the intifada’ event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore says she has asked the city’s chief executive to cancel an upcoming “globalise the intifada” event that was set to be held in a council-owned building.<\/p>\n

The decision has been welcomed by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, which said it had been “engaging intensively with the council” about the event.<\/p>\n

The event, entitled “Why it is right to say Globalise the Intifada”, was scheduled to be held on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy statement on Facebook, Ms Moore said she had made the decision due to “heightened anxiety and division and coinciding with the week of the first hearing block of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion in Australia”.<\/p>\n

She said it was “essential that public events do not contribute to hostility and fear”.<\/p>\n

“I have long supported the principles of peaceful assembly, protest and freedom of speech,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“However, these rights must always be balanced with a responsibility to ensure public safety and respect for all members of our diverse community.”<\/p>\n

Ms Moore also hit out at what she labelled as a “persistent media campaign”, which she said had “[painted] complex issues in black and white”.<\/p>\n

“The media has an important role in how it presents and helps the community interpret challenging issues, and I am extremely concerned that in this case, some outlets are driving a discourse of division that has heightened tensions more than any small community event could,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Australia’s Jewish community says it is facing rising antisemitism. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)<\/p>\n

In a social media statement, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies said the organisation was “greatly relieved” that the lord mayor had cancelled the event.<\/p>\n

“The phrase ‘Globalise the Intifada’ has been recognised by a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry as a call to violence against Jewish Australians,” it said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

“it essentially means kill or main a Jew wherever you find one.<\/p>\n

“We have been engaging intensively with the Council – right up until this evening – to explain why this event would have endangered public safety and grievously undermine social cohesion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore says she has asked the city’s chief executive to cancel an upcoming “globalise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5833,2561,5830,5828,5832,5829,247,5831],"class_list":{"0":"post-4572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-city-of-sydney-council","9":"tag-clover-moore","10":"tag-east-sydney-arts-centre","11":"tag-globalise-the-infitada","12":"tag-middle-east-conflict","13":"tag-palestine","14":"tag-sydney","15":"tag-sydney-lord-mayor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}