Bankstown rally: "the land is ours... Palestine is ours"
At a Stand for Palestine rally in Paul Keating Park, as quoted by AIJAC (Australia/Israel Review, 24 Nov 2023).
19 October 2024
"Scared of saying the word jihad"
At Stand for Palestine's "promised victory" conference; online he called Sinwar "one of Gaza's champions" who met a "noble end" (The Australian).
Primary Role
Mahmoud Al-Azhari is a senior NSW executive member of the Australian National Imams Council. At a "Stand for Palestine" rally in Paul Keating Park, Bankstown, on 22 October 2023, AIJAC (Ran Porat, Australia/Israel Review, 24 Nov 2023) quoted him telling the crowd in Arabic that Muslims "have owned this world for centuries" and calling on them to "bring out Islam," and in English declaring "the land is ours... Palestine is ours... the masjid al Aqsa is ours," before naming cities including Haifa, Jaffa, Beersheba and Safed as "liberated by Allah." These quotes are drawn from AIJAC's published account; the primary rally video has not been independently archived here.
At the Stand for Palestine "promised victory" conference in Sydney on 19 October 2024 he said "they" had made the community "scared of saying the word jihad". On social media he called Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, killed days earlier, "one of Gaza's champions" who met a "noble end", saying another leader would "rise" (The Australian, 20 Oct 2024).
The Australian - Yahya Sinwar hailed as a legend at Sydney conference, at which sheik promises Islam will 'dominate' (20 Oct 2024) - copy held by The Evidence Project
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