Sydney’s mayor bans ‘globalise the intifada’ forum from being held in council building

A pro-Palestine rally in Sydney in January. The lord mayor, Clover Moore, has stopped an event advertised as ‘Why it is right to globalise the Intifada’ from being held in a council building. Photograph: Richard Milnes/Shutterstock

Sydney’s lord mayor has banned a pro-Palestine meeting from being held in a council building, saying the decision came after “a persistent media campaign by the Murdoch press against this event”.

The Stop The War On Palestine group had planned to hold a “globalise the intifada” forum at the East Sydney Community Arts Centre on Tuesday night.