{"id":460388,"date":"2025-12-20T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:48:15","slug":"australian-state-plans-tougher-laws-against-displaying-extremist-flags-after-bondi-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460388\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian state plans tougher laws against displaying extremist flags after Bondi shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

SYDNEY — The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting<\/a> driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n

Under draft laws to be debated by the state Parliament, publicly displaying the IS flag or symbols from other extremist groups will be offenses punishable by up to two years in prison and fines.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s premier, Chris Minns, also said chants of \u201cglobalize the intifada\u201d will be banned and police would be given greater powers to demand protesters remove face coverings at demonstrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cHate speech or incitement of hatred has no place in our society,\u201d Minns said Saturday. <\/p>\n

The Arabic word intifada is generally translated as \u201cuprising.\u201d<\/p>\n

While pro-Palestinian demonstrators say the slogan describes the worldwide protests against the war in Gaza<\/a>, Jewish leaders say it inflames tensions and encourages attacks on Jews.<\/p>\n

\u201cHorrific, recent events have shown that the chant \u2018globalize the intifada\u2019 is hate speech and encourages violence in our community,\u201d Minns told reporters. \u201cYou\u2019re running a very risky racket if you\u2019re thinking of using that phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n

New South Wales politicians are expected to debate the reforms on Monday after the premier recalled parliament.<\/p>\n

Police said Sunday’s attack, targeting a Hanukkah celebration on Australia’s most famous beach, was \u201ca terrorist attack inspired by (the) Islamic State<\/a> ” group. Police said they found two homemade IS flags in the vehicle used by the two suspects. <\/p>\n

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to introduce measures<\/a> to curb radicalization and hate, including broadening the definition of hate speech offenses for preachers and leaders who promote violence, and toughening punishments for such crimes. The proposals would also designate some groups as hateful, and allow judges to consider hate as an aggravating factor in cases of online threats and harassment.<\/p>\n

Albanese has also announced plans to tighten Australia’s already strict gun laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The attack has raised questions about whether Australian Jews are sufficiently protected from rising antisemitism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Australia has 28 million people, including about 117,000 who are Jewish. Antisemitic incidents, including assaults, vandalism, threats and intimidation, surged more than threefold in the country during the year after Hamas attacked Israel<\/a> on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel launched a war on Hamas in Gaza in response, the government\u2019s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal<\/a> reported in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY — The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[210249,97,12648,347,57,99,373,50,402,2068,45891,2060,365,3677,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-460388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-210249","9":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","10":"tag-antisemitism","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-hamas-war","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-protests-and-demonstrations","17":"tag-race-and-ethnicity","18":"tag-radicalism","19":"tag-rebellions-and-uprisings","20":"tag-religion","21":"tag-shootings","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115752921383611637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}