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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lisa Cox

Activist group Pride in Protest banned from Mardi Gras parade over social media posts

Pride in Protest members at a press conference
Pride in Protest members at a press conference in 2024. The group has called for the decision to ban it from this year’s Mardi Gras to be reversed and said it refused to comply. Photograph: Australian Associated Press/Alamy

Activist group Pride in Protest has been banned from marching in the Sydney Mardi Gras parade over social media posts criticising Jewish group Dayenu, who were also due to take part in the event.

The Mardi Gras chief executive, Jesse Matheson, wrote to Pride in Protest on Friday, saying the organisation had received complaints about social media posts that described Dayenu, a group for Sydney’s Jewish LGBTQ+ community and their allies, as “pro-genocide” and alleged that Dayenu “support genocide”.

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