In sermon, Australian imam says Jews are ‘bloodthirsty, treacherous monsters’ Referencing Oct. 7 attacks, Ahmad Zoud of Sydney celebrates how ‘those cowards collapsed in the face of the attacks by the mujahideen, and ran away from them like rats’

January 2, 2024   

(Times of Israel) Recordings of a recent Friday sermon at the Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba Mosque in Sydney, Australia, show Imam Ahmad Zoud making antisemitic comments, saying Jews are bloodthirsty, treacherous “monsters.”

The December 22 sermon, broadcast live on the mosque’s Facebook page, begins with several rhetorical questions, for example: “Who are these monsters from whose hearts mercy has been ripped out?” referring to Israel’s war in Gaza. Zoud answers emphatically: “These are the Zionists. These are the Jews.”

The war was triggered by Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught, which saw some 3,000 terrorists cross the border into Israel to slay nearly 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and take over 240 hostages, while weaponizing sexual violence on a mass scale.

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