{"id":92067,"date":"2026-03-23T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=92067"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:52:16","slug":"australian-premier-booed-at-sydney-mosque-for-israel-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/australian-premier-booed-at-sydney-mosque-for-israel-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian premier booed at Sydney mosque for Israel stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS STAFF<\/p>\n<p>(JNS.org) \u2013Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was heckled by Muslim worshippers during a visit to Lakemba Mosque in Sydney for Eid prayers on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88692\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88692\" class=\"wp-image-88692 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88692\" class=\"wp-image-88692 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anthony-Albanese-Portrait-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-88692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Albanese at his official office. (Photo via Australian government and Wikimedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, who also serves as minister for immigration and citizenship, were invited to the celebration marking the end of Ramadan by the Lebanese Muslim Association.<\/p>\n<p>An attendee accused the pair of \u201csupporting genocide,\u201d as others repeatedly shouted \u201cBoo\u201d and \u201cGet out of here,\u201d the&nbsp;<i>BBC<\/i>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n<p>A man was seen on video tackled to the ground by a security guard and escorted outside, after which he was released without charge, the&nbsp;<i>Australian Associated Press<\/i>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that emotions are high, particularly given the ongoing suffering in Gaza and the devastation in Lebanon,\u201d the Lebanese Muslim Association said later in a statement, per the&nbsp;<i>BBC<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not distant issues for our community. But we also need to be clear. Choosing to engage with the elected leadership of this country is not a betrayal of those concerns. It is how we give them a voice,\u201d the association added.<\/p>\n<p>After the event, Albanese described the mosque atmosphere as \u201cincredibly positive,\u201d adding that \u201cif you got a couple of people heckling in a crowd of 30,000, that should be put in that perspective,\u201d according to&nbsp;<i>Sky News<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Fears within the Jewish community have risen in Australia since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which culminated in the Bondi Beach mass shooting attack by a Muslim father and son at a Chanukah candle lighting event on Dec. 14, 2025, claiming 15 lives.<\/p>\n<p>While Jewish groups have criticized the Australian government for doing too little to guarantee their safety, the Muslim community has also expressed its dissatisfaction after the outlawing of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group that calls for a single Islamic government across the Muslim world and to implement Sharia law globally.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Australian%20premier%20booed%20at%20Sydney%20mosque%20for%20Israel%20stance\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14206,8790,430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92070,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92067\/revisions\/92070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}