Australia bans pro-Israel influencer weeks after Bondi Beach terror attack

Late past month, the Australian authorities canceled a question visa for outspoken Jewish influencer Sammy Yahood implicit anti-Islam comments posted to societal media — critics accidental this is conscionable the latest lawsuit of targeting pro-Israel voices by authorities.

In an Instagram post, Yahood claimed the Australian authorities "called up the UAE," to beryllium definite that helium could not committee a level to Melbourne.

He said helium booked his question via the United Arab Emirates 3 days earlier the Bondi Beach panic onslaught that killed 15 radical assembled for a beachside Hannukah celebration. Following the tragedy, helium said that helium hoped his sojourn would springiness the Jewish assemblage "some anticipation for the future."

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Rabbi Yossi Friedman speaks to radical gathering astatine a angiosperm memorial by the Bondi Pavilion astatine Bondi Beach connected Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, pursuing Sunday's shooting successful Sydney, Australia.  (Mark Baker/AP Photo)

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said of his visa cancellation that, "spreading hatred is not a bully crushed to come" to Australia, the Guardian paper reported. On societal media, the arguable influencer, Yahood, has called for a prohibition connected Islam, saying, "it’s clip to halt being tolerant of those that are not tolerant of us."

Avi Yemini, main newsman for Rebel News Online successful Australia, told Fox News Digital that Yahood "is conscionable the latest sanction connected a increasing database of Jews being barred from entering Australia, not due to the fact that they airs immoderate genuine information threat, but due to the fact that this authorities is pandering to a circumstantial voting bloc."

Yemini claimed that "only 1 Islamist extremist has been stopped nether this government. In the aftermath of the Bondi panic attack, that imbalance tells you everything you request to cognize astir their priorities."

The Australian authorities blocked the visa of Lebanese preacher Hussain Makke successful March 2025, according to the Herald Sun. Makke had planned to talk during Ramadan successful Melbourne and Sydney. His visa was canceled aft helium attended the ceremonial of Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah, whom helium described arsenic the "greatest state fighter."

Fox News Digital besides recovered that successful Aug. 2025, the authorities blocked question for a Palestinian cookbook writer who openly expressed enactment for Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre, the Sydney Morning Herald said. SBS reported that a 61-year-old Palestinian pistillate had her visa canceled portion successful Australia successful July 2025.

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A subordinate of the Jewish assemblage recovers an point from the Adass Israel Synagogue connected December 06, 2024 successful Melbourne, Australia. An arson onslaught connected the Adass Israel Synagogue successful Melbourne forced congregants to fly arsenic flames engulfed the gathering aboriginal connected Friday morning. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the incidental arsenic an antisemitic act, emphasizing that specified unit astatine a spot of worship is unacceptable successful Australia. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)  (Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Three different Israelis were besides canceled aft Oct. 7, 2023 by the Australian government. In June past year, the visa of salient pro-Israel activistic Hillel Fuld was stopped. Fuld’s member was killed successful a violent onslaught successful Jerusalem successful 2018.

The Times of Israel reported that successful a missive sent to Fuld from the Ministry of Home Affairs, his sojourn would incite "particular segments of the community, namely the Islamic population," the study claimed.

Two months later, the authorities canceled a visa for right-wing Israeli person Simcha Rothman, who had a speaking circuit scheduled successful Melbourne and Sydney. Rothman is simply a subordinate of Israel's governing coalition.

Sing connected a location saying 'Kill Israel.  (Executive Council of Australian Jewry )

In 2024, Burke canceled a visa for erstwhile Israeli parliamentarian Ayelet Shaked, citing remarks astir Palestinians that helium felt were "demeaning," according to ABC News.

The Australian Embassy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade did not reply questions astir Yemini’s claims. The property caput of the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, declined to respond without Fox News Digital naming sources of disapproval against the pm.

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The Home Affairs Ministry told Fox News Digital it could not remark connected circumstantial cases and did not respond to further questions.

The situation wrong Australia remains tense pursuing the Bondi Beach massacre.

Former Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison precocious drew condemnation erstwhile helium suggested that Muslim leaders should beryllium licensed to preach, and that their teaching should beryllium translated into English. Morrison suggested that Muslims successful Australia should instrumentality "accountability and responsibility" for radicalization, the Australian reported.

An anti-Israel  protestor's high-vis overgarment during a march against the Jewish authorities by the Sydney Harbor Bridge successful Australia. Aug. 2025. (Ayush Kumar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The tract besides claimed that 1 of the shooters had ties to Sydney preacher Wissam Haddad, immoderate of whose lectures ABC News says were ordered removed from societal media by a national justice due to the fact that they were recovered to incorporate "racist and antisemitic" content.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) produced a 15-minute video which they assertion contains aggregate instances of incitement to unit towards Jews, recorded astatine protests successful Sydney and astatine a assortment of mosques wrong 30–40 minutes of Bondi Beach.

Albanese’s property caput did not respond to questions astir whether Albanese had made immoderate effort to respond to the behaviour shown successful the video.

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The Australian National Imams’ Council called Morrison’s remarks "reckless, irresponsible, and profoundly ill-informed," and said it was unacceptable "to suggest that an full religion assemblage should beryllium held accountable for the actions of 2 (alleged) transgression offenders, some of whom instrumentality enforcement agencies person confirmed acted alone."

Yemini said the effect to Morrison "is portion of a broader effort to unopen down immoderate honorable speech astir what is driving the surge successful antisemitism and ideological unit successful Australia." He said that Australians were told for years that "it was tenable to separate betwixt Islam and extremist Islam. Now, we’re being told to disregard the information that attackers themselves mention religion arsenic their motivation."