The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has formally lodged a vilification complaint with the Human Rights Commission against two Islamic preachers.
The two Muslim clerics have been caught on tape describing Jews as ‘monsters, ‘rats’ or as ‘vile’, in speeches made since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.
ECAJ deputy president Robert Goot SC said it was taking action not only to “protect the honour of the Jewish community”, but to also “protect the future fabric of Australian society”.
“We’ve taken action because the incendiary sermons aspects of which you have just played containing hateful, despicable, anti-Semitic tropes can’t go without being challenged,” Mr Goot SC told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“We regard these events and this conduct as undermining the social cohesion, stability and peace of what we have grown up with as a very successful multicultural society, with different ethnicities and different faiths cooperating and living peacefully together.”
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