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Australian state plans to ban intifada chants after Bondi shooting

Australian state plans to ban intifada chants after Bondi shooting

By Navitalai Naivalurua
21/12/2025
Source : ABC
The Australian state where the Bondi shooting occurred plans to ban the phrase "globalise the intifada" as part of a crackdown on "hateful" slogans.

New South Wales (NSW) Premier Chris Minns has also called for a Royal Commission into the Bondi attack, marking the deadliest shooting in Australia in nearly 30 years.

Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured last Sunday when two gunmen, believed to have been motivated by "Islamic State ideology", opened fire on a Jewish festival at the country's most iconic beach.

Australia's state and federal governments have announced a raft of measures to counter extremism since the attack.

Minns plans to recall the state parliament next week to pass through stricter hate speech and gun restrictions.

Earlier this week, he also suggested he would tighten protest laws to scale back mass demonstrations to encourage "a summer of calm".

The premier confirmed he would seek to classify the chant "globalise the intifada" as hate speech.

Two pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly shouting slogans involving intifada at a demonstration in central London.

The term intifada came into popular use during the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1987.

Some have described the term as a call for violence against Jewish people.

Others have said it is a call for peaceful resistance to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and actions in Gaza.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a new gun buyback scheme to purchase surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms.

The government predicts that hundreds of thousands of guns will be collected and destroyed.

[Source: BBC]
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