Ismail al-Wahwah

October 21, 2021, 12:00 am

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said, "The government utterly condemns this offensive and hateful antisemitic rhetoric. There is absolutely no place for racism or prejudice in Australia."

By Gareth Narunsky

September 10, 2020, 12:00 am

Enough incitement

We urge the government to review its stance towards Hizb ut-Tahrir and consider banning it as is the case in Germany, Russia, China, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and most Arab countries

By AJN STAFF

Ismail al-Wahwah. Photo: AAP Image/Paul Miller

September 10, 2020, 12:00 am

Hizb ut-Tahrir leader: Jews ‘will cry blood’

'It is outrageous that the spiritual leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamist group, can deliver such an inflammatory speech and publicly threaten violence with impunity'.

By Gareth Narunsky

February 14, 2020, 9:00 am

Al-Wahwah rant slammed

Footage has emerged of Hizb ut-Tahrir spiritual leader Ismail al-Wahwah delivering a sermon, stating that 'the only holocaust is the one that [the Jews] claim'.

By Gareth Narunsky

Ismail al-Wahwah, Arabic media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia, looks on during a press conference in Sydney on Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012. A Muslim Convention is to be held this Sunday in Sydney about the future of the Muslim World post-the Arab uprisings. Photo: AAP Image/Paul Miller

August 3, 2018, 9:54 am

Sheikh detained in Jordan

HIZB ut-Tahrir Australia spiritual leader Ismail al-Wahwah, who in 2015 called on people to "rid" the world of the Jewish "hidden evil" and declared "the ember of jihad against the Jews will continue to burn", has been arrested in Jordan.

By Gareth Narunsky

NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman. Photo: Noel Kessel

June 21, 2018, 12:01 am

Incitement legislation set to become law in NSW

NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman paid tribute to the Jewish community on Tuesday as the state government's new incitement legislation passed the Legislative Assembly.

By Gareth Narunsky

June 7, 2018, 12:01 am

‘A line in the sand’

UNDER new laws to be introduced in the NSW Parliament, any individual who incites or threatens violence against the Jewish community could face three years in prison.

NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton with Vic Alhadeff (on left) and Jeremy Spinak.

October 22, 2015, 10:08 am

‘A historic reform’

NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton has publicly admitted for the first time that Section 20D of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act is not working and she will introduce legislation by May to fix it.

By Evan Zlatkis

October 1, 2015, 9:23 am

Ethnic groups back hate law change

SIX ethnic organisations have added their voices to the call by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) for the state’s race-vilification legislation to be strengthened.

September 27, 2015, 12:00 am

Hate laws to be reviewed

THE NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) has been working closely with Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton to ensure last month’s failure by the police to charge Hizb ut-Tahrir leaded Ismail al-Wahwah with racial incitement is not repeated.

By Gareth Narunsky

Federal Attorney-General, Senator George Brandis. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch

September 10, 2015, 12:00 am

Advocacy of genocide to be criminalised

ANTI-Discrimination Board of NSW president Stepan Kerkyasharian has joined communal leaders in welcoming the federal government’s plans to introduce a new crime of “advocacy of genocide”.

By Evan Zlatkis

September 3, 2015, 12:00 am

Dismay over failure to charge al-Wahwah

NSW Anti-Discrimination Board president Stepan Kerkyasharian has backed the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ (JBOD) call for the state’s race hate legislation to be reviewed after police decided last week not to charge Hizb ut-Tahrir leader Ismail al-Wahwah with racial incitement.

By Gareth Narunsky

August 27, 2015, 10:57 am

Hate speaker to avoid prosecution

NSW Police will not charge a Hizb ut-Tahrir leader over allegations of race-hate speech after a video emerged of Ismail al-Wahwah reportedly calling on people to “rid” the world of the Jewish “hidden evil”.

By Evan Zlatkis

April 17, 2015, 12:00 am

Hizb ut-Tahrir videos ‘a serious breach’

By Gareth Narunsky

March 19, 2015, 12:00 am

‘Jews have corrupted the world’