ECAJ co-CEO Peter Wertheim says: “The ECAJ has been calling for this measure since 2021. We told a parliamentary committee at the time that groups like NSN were operating at a level just below the threshold required to list them as a terrorist organisation, but were using social media in the same way as terrorist groups to groom and recruit impressionable young men to join them.
“It doesn’t matter what they call themselves, or how they structure themselves, these groups use all the well known techniques of thuggery and menace that Nazis have always used against Jewish communities and other groups they have targeted.
“This announcement is welcome and will send a much-needed message that these groups and their hateful, racist ideology has no place in Australia.”
