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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty

Sydney cleric being sued for alleged antisemitism says case is an existential battle ‘between Islam and unbelievers’

Wissam Haddad
Sydney preacher Wissam Haddad is being sued for alleged antisemitic sermons. He asserts he has a right to free speech and that he delivered his sermons in ‘good faith’ Photograph: PR IMAGE

A Sydney Muslim cleric being sued in the federal court for alleged racial discrimination of Jewish people has described his case as an existential battle “between Islam and unbelievers”.

Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd, is being sued by Australia’s peak Jewish body over a series of lectures he gave in November 2023, in which he is alleged to have maligned Jewish people as “vile”, “treacherous” and cowardly.

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