The right-leaning Australian Jewish Association (AJA) said Sammy Yahood’s visa was cancelled three hours before his flight was due to depart.

The AJA has criticised the cancellation of Yahood’s visa, and said he was scheduled to speak to the AJA in major synagogues and to other organisations across Australia.

“Sammy is the latest Jew to have his visa cancelled by this government. As in other cases, they wait until the last minute,” the organisation wrote on X.

“Parliament just voted to increase the powers of Toby [sic] Burke to cancel visas as an apparent response to support the Jewish community following the Bondi massacre.”

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    Currently it’s more expansionist than Islam. Also lol at “We should make it illegal to believe an abrahamic religion.” Least authoritarian Australian.

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      I’d need a source on Judaism being expansionist. From what I learned, they actively discourage converts, and the world population is in the millions, not over a billion as Islam is. Also, by abolish, I didn’t mean legally prohibit belief. That would never work, anyway, god is a higher authority than the law. I just meant we should get rid of the religions - through education, teaching critical thinking, valuing truth, etc. And certain harms carried out by religion should also be made illegal, but that’s not restricting belief, just harmful actions that affect other people - as we already do.