Press Release
The Threat to Ban Hizb ut Tahrir in Australia

Before the victims of the Bondi tragedy could even be buried, pro-Zionist advocates in this country had already agreed on their narrative and rattled off their list of public demands. Investigations only just commenced, yet pro-Zionist advocates in this country, taking instruction from the war criminal Netanyahu, insist this entire episode can be explained solely through the lens of antisemitism.

Pro-Zionist advocates went even further. The problem is not just any antisemitism, but a pernicious form of it apparently rooted in a ‘radical’ Islam. The extension of this false logic is to then apportion blame for Bondi not just upon the attackers, but the entire Muslim community as a natural grounding for this supposed ‘radicalism’. We are all suspect now unless we expressly disavow such ‘radicalism’, which to pro-Zionist advocates, is simply code for accepting the genocide and the right of the occupational entity to enact it.

Like we saw with last summer’s fake ‘wave’ of antisemitic attacks, pro-Zionist advocates in this country are demanding Australia alter its political and legal frameworks to exceptionalise Zionist victimhood. The objective is to silence pro-Palestinian activism generally, and Ummah-centric activism specifically. The dream of Zionists is to kill off any resistance to it in both the East and the West.

Efforts to ban protests, symbols and even slogans have already begun. The Prime Minister, under immense pressure from the Zionist entity and its underlings in this country, felt compelled to respond in some measure. In a manner the Muslim community has grown accustomed, the Prime Minister offered up the community as sacrificial lambs. References to ‘radical’ Islam, ‘radical’ preachers, hate speech and hate factories started to adorn his statements and releases.

On the 18th of December 2025, the Prime Minister declared his political survival will come at the cost of Australia’s sovereignty, bowing to Zionist demands and announcing his five-point plan to combat antisemitism. One of those points was to criminalise Muslim activism on Palestine, announcing an intention to develop “a regime for listing organisations whose leaders engage in hate speech promoting violence or racial hatred.”

On the 22nd of December 2025, the Home Affairs Minister expanded upon this announcement by declaring Australia’s intention to develop a new legal framework that would serve the express purpose of criminalising Muslim dissent, starting with Hizb ut-Tahrir. He said: “(These) organisations for a long time have been able to take hate right to the threshold without using the words violence and escape any further terrorist listing. We will be establishing a new form of listing for those who do not meet the terrorist organisations – of being able to prescribe organisations … Their behaviour needs to be unacceptable, their behaviour needs to be unlawful, their behaviour needs to be enough that we can prescribe the organisation and prohibit their activity in Australia.”

In other words, like all activist efforts, everything Hizb ut Tahrir says or does is entirely legal in this country. But Zionists don’t like us, and have unsuccessfully lobbied state and federal governments for years to ban us, and now see in Bondi a unique opportunity to muzzle pro-Palestinian activism in the Muslim community.

There is much that needs to be said about the government’s proposal, and much will be said in coming days, but immediately, we want to stress the following points:

1. The plan to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia can only occur through the introduction of a two-tier legal system. The PM has alluded to it, and his Home Affairs Minister expressly said it, that despite there being no legal basis to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir, Australia will now seek to create an entire new legal framework that expressly targets the Muslim community.

2. Efforts to proscribe Hizb ut Tahrir are part of wider Zionist demands to criminalise all pro-Palestinian activism. Everybody is a target.

3. The government’s case to ban Hizb ut Tahrir in Australia rests on lies and racist, Islamophobic tropes that should be offensive to all people of conscience.

We will have more to say on all of this in coming releases.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Australia