The rally staged outside the New South Wales Parliament on Saturday has rightly drawn condemnation from across the community – particularly as it occurred on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom against Germany’s Jewish community.
 
The black-uniformed protestors, carrying banners with the slogan ‘Abolish the Jewish Lobby,’ were clearly intent on spreading fear and antisemitism. 
 
Authorities must investigate whether Saturday’s neo-Nazi rally in Sydney breached laws against inciting racial hatred.
 
Christians are defenders of free speech. We prize the freedom to declare ‘the praises of Him who called (us) out of darkness into his wonderful light’. 
 
This includes defending the freedom of others to disagree with us, and even to mock the truth we proclaim. 
 
But speech that incites hatred is illegal in New South Wales. 
 
Antisemitism has traded in lies, hate and violence for centuries. When it appears in modern day Australia it must be named, resisted and rejected.
 
Antisemitism—whether from the far left or far right—has no place in Australian society.
 
Archbishop Kanishka Raffel
10 November 2025