Overview
- Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore ordered the city's chief executive to cancel a pro-Palestine forum booked in a council-owned building.
- She said the decision responded to heightened anxiety, public safety risks, and media coverage she argued had inflamed tensions during the Royal Commission's opening week.
- The forum, titled "Why it is right to say Globalise the Intifada," was slated for the East Sydney Community Arts Centre and was reported by 9News as organised by Stop The War on Palestine.
- The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies welcomed the cancellation and cited a parliamentary inquiry that interpreted the slogan as a call to violence against Jewish Australians.
- The decision follows months of fraught protests in Sydney, arrests during a February rally, and temporary protest limits later struck down by the NSW High Court.