00:00Long live the Intifada!
00:05Chanted with passion at a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney in December,
00:09this phrase, and ones like it, used at similar rallies in Melbourne
00:13Intifada! Intifada!
00:15would soon be banned in New South Wales under certain conditions.
00:19It's important that we take whatever steps we can to keep people together at the moment. We need to.
00:24A labour-controlled lower house committee has recommended the phrase
00:28globalise the Intifada, or anything substantially similar, be outlawed if it's used to incite
00:34hatred or harm. Another popular phrase
00:37From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
00:41has not been recommended to be banned.
00:43The Arabic word Intifada means shaking off
00:46and has been used to refer to two periods of violent Palestinian protest against Israel.
00:52Palestinian activists told the inquiry it's a call for an international effort
00:56to rise up against Israel's illegal occupation.
01:00But the Jewish Board of Deputies says it means to bring the sort of death and destruction
01:05that marked the second Intifada to the streets of Sydney.
01:09The report acknowledges the term has a complex history
01:12and has not been used exclusively as an incitement to violence,
01:16but that since the Bondi attack, the threat context has changed.
01:20We need to tackle hate speech wherever we find it.
01:24This inquiry was set up hastily in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.
01:28There were no public hearings, only written submissions,
01:31the bulk of which recommended against banning specific phrases.
01:35One still then can't be certain whether the context in which the phrase is used
01:41would be regarded as inciting violence, etc.
01:45So that would still be a matter for the court.
01:47When a slogan is used for the purpose of inciting violence,
01:51that is an offence now.
01:53It should be an offence.
01:55And this inquiry, in many respects, all it did was reinforce the existing law.
02:00The government says it's considering the report.
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