Al Madina Dawah Centre in new hate outburst after Brother Ismail sermon

A Sydney Islamic centre where a preacher urged Muslims to engage in jihad has broadcast another sermon by a prominent Sydney cleric reciting parables about calls to kill Jews.

A still from a video posted by Al Madina Dawah Centre, titled The Jews of Al Madina, by preacher Abu Ousayd.

A Sydney Islamic centre where a preacher urged Muslims to engage in jihad has broadcast another sermon by a prominent Sydney cleric reciting parables about calls to kill Jews and spruiking anti-Semitic tropes.

Al Madina Dawah Centre uploaded the sermon on the weekend by Abu Ousayd, who it is understood runs the centre, ­titled The Jews of Al Madina.

“Towards the end of times, when the Muslims will be fighting the Jews, the trees will speak,” Mr Ousayd said, citing Islamic scripture and parables.

“They will say ‘oh Muslim, there is a yahud (Arabic for Jew) behind me, come and kill him’.”

Mr Ousayd also claimed Jewish people had their “hands everywhere in business” and how they used “wealth to gain authority over the weak”.

Brother Ismail gives a sermon at the centre on October 27.

“Jews own the majority of banks, who are happy to give the most oppressive interest loans to people in need, knowing that they are impossible to pay back,” he said.

On Sunday, The Australian revealed how “Brother Ismail” gave a sermon at the southwest Sydney religious centre after the ­October 7 massacre in Israel, taking aim at the government and calling jihad the ­“solution”.

“There is no other way … they (Muslims) are looking forward to joining the mujahideen,” said Brother Ismail, whose full name has not been ­disclosed.

He called Hamas “freedom fighters” and praised the symbols used in the al-Qa’ida flag.

He also said “labelling Muslims as terrorists” pushed them into a corner, a “test for the national security system”.

On Monday, an Al Madina Dawah Centre spokesman declined to comment, claiming that Mr Ismail was not employed by the organisation, rather was a guest speaker, and that they were not aware of his surname.

The centre stood by Mr Ismail’s comments, refusing to condemn them, directing questions to the police about Mr Ismail.

Education Minister Jason Clare, whose electorate encompasses the centre, condemned Ismail’s comments. Picture: Liam Kidston

A federal government spokeswoman said it couldn’t comment specifically, given the ongoing police investigation, but that the intelligence services were monitoring inciteful language.

“Our intelligence agencies have made it extremely clear that they see a direct relationship between language and violence,” she said. “The cohesion of our multicultural society is our greatest national asset and everyone needs to play their part in protecting it.”

The area’s MPs condemned the comments. “I condemn these remarks – there’s no place for hate in Australia,” Blaxland MP Jason Clare said.

Bankstown NSW MP Jihad Dib said there was a “a responsibility on all of us to use language that unites rather than divides”.

NSW Minister and Bankstown MP Jihad Dib says language should unite not divide. Picture: Bianca DeMarchi

“It is important to lean on our forged interfaith and intercultural relationships to lead us through these difficult times,” he said.

“Anti-Semitism has no place in our multicultural society, nor does Islamophobia, or any type of vilification.”

The Canterbury-Bankstown Council, however, declined to condemn Mr Ismail’s remarks.

Legal experts said police could look at section 80.2 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code, which makes advocating or promoting terrorism an offence, or at NSW’s racial vilification laws when investigating Mr Ismail.

“Given he’s of ­religious authority, that’s significant context,” University of Sydney Challis Chair of International Law Ben Saul said.

“Police would take that into account when assessing any alleged offence like that.”

Warren Mundine slammed Ismail conflating Hamas and Australia’s colonial past. Picture: John Gass

Although Mr Saul couldn’t comment specifically on Mr Ismail’s comments, he said federal and state laws “could be in play”.

“At a federal level, there are laws against advocating or urging a terrorist act,” Mr Saul said.

“Or reckless as to whether someone else would respond (to an act) by committing an act of terrorism themselves.”

NSW’s racial vilification laws make it an offence to incite hatred against a group based on their race. However, it is not an individual offence to glorify or praise past acts of terrorism.

Chairs and other debris are pictured on November 5, nearly a month after an attack on the Supernova music Festival by Hamas militants, near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel. Picture: AFP

Mr Ismail also called Australia “hypocrites” for describing Hamas as terrorists but forgetting about its own “dark” colonial past.

“Did you really forget what your ancestors did to the country’s Indigenous people,” he said.

“How they killed them, how they chained them like dogs.”

Indigenous leader Warren Mundine said Ismail’s comments were “disgraceful”.

“Hamas is a terrorist organisation that has committed some of the most barbaric crimes we’ve seen – to put the two together is nonsense,” he said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said strict laws were available to the police in their inquiries.