Leaders who promote anti-semitism have largely gone ‘uncriticised’ by government

Liberal Senator Dave Sharma says the few leaders within the Islamic community who promote anti-semitism have largely gone “uncriticised” by the government. “This has been a pattern of behaviour by admittedly a small number of leaders within the Sydney Islamic community preaching hatred, incitement, intolerance from Friday prayers at local mosques,” he told Sky News Australia. In a new legal push by Jewish Leaders – hate preachers could be put in front of the nation’s courts and human rights tribunal. It comes as two Sydney clerics called Jewish people hate-fuelled names but police could not lay charges due to it not reaching the criminality threshold. Jewish leaders are asking those in positions of influence to denounce anti-semitism or they would take legal action.