Posters glorifying Bondi Beach terrorist plastered around Melbourne

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February 3, 2025

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Posters of Naveed Akram, one of the Bondi Beach terrorists, have been plastered in Melbourne’s central business district in “a calculated and deeply offensive act,” according to the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), an Australian organization founded to combat antisemitism in the country.

Approximately 40 posters, designed to deliberately mimic the distinctive visual style of the “Aussie” street art series promoting inclusion, were unlawfully plastered on public infrastructure around the CBD, says the ADC.

The posters display the face of Akram using imagery designed to elevate and aestheticize Akram, who, together with his father, Sajid Akram, killed 15 people and wounded dozens at a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach on December 14.

“This is not street art. This is grave-dancing,” says ADC chair Dvir Abramovich. “Putting the face of a Bondi terrorist on city walls is psychological terrorism aimed at families who are still burying their dead. That is rot. It’s glorification of mass murder and it tells Jewish Australians that even our mourning is not sacred.”

“Let me be clear,” Abramovich continues. “When you elevate a terrorist, you are not exercising free speech. You are continuing the attack.”

Abramovich calls for the neighborhood council to immediately take down the posters and find the perpetrators for the police to charge.

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