Month: June 2025
Applicant’s case argues 2023 sermons were ‘calculated to denigrate all Jewish people’ but defence says speeches were intended for small, private audience
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A Sydney Muslim cleric being sued for alleged racial discrimination gave a series of speeches calculated to “dehumanise” and “denigrate all Jewish people”, the federal court has heard.
But ahead of the Tuesday hearing, Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd, took to social media to say he rejected the court’s authority.
More than 300 civil servants sign letter saying they fear UK is complicit in Israel’s alleged war crimes
More than 300 Foreign Office staff have been told to consider resigning after they wrote a letter complaining they feared it had become complicit in Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza.
It is the fourth such internal letter from staff about the offensive in Gaza, which started in October 2023 in response to Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel.
