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December 17, 2025

In Australia, You Can Call for Jihad, but You Can’t Talk about the Threat of Jihadism

Terrorists are welcome, but not their victims.

What should be done about those who gather to recite such slogans as “globalize the intifada” or “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free [of Jews]”? After all, isn’t freedom of speech and of peaceful protest a core value of places like Australia and America? That might be a colorable defense of Australian official behavior, writes Douglas Murray, except for the fact that the nation is not governed by “free-speech absolutists.” Quite the contrary:

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