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2025-06-09 Down Under
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Australia blocks visit by Israel activist Hillel Fuld, causing diplomatic uproar
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[IsraelTimes] Scheduled to speak at events to raise money for Magen David Adom, Fuld had his visa rescinded as he was accused of being a ‘merchant of Zionist hate speech’
Pro-Israel activist and influencer Hillel Fuld has been barred from entering Australia because his presence would constitute a risk to "the health, safety or good order" of the country, according to Australia’s Department of Home Affairs.
Fuld, a citizen of both Israel and the United States, was due to speak at events for Magen David Adom in Sydney and Melbourne to raise money for the medical organization’s new facility in Lehavim in southern Israel. His visit was canceled due to fears he would use the platform to incite hatred "against particular segments of the community, namely the Islamic population," according to the letter sent to him Friday by the Department of Home Affairs.
The decision has sparked outrage from Jewish communities in Australia and worldwide.
Fuld told The Times of Israel that he had received his travel visa for the trip months ago without any problems. "But on Thursday, someone brought to my attention a post on X calling for people to contact the immigration office to get me blocked from entering the country. Sure enough, the next morning, I got an email from them telling me I wouldn’t be allowed to come."
The coordinated social media campaign by pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activists called Fuld "a well-known merchant of Zionist hate speech," saying he has "a well-documented history of spreading hate speech, Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
, and dangerous misinformation." It included detailed information on how to file a complaint with
Fuld said the decision is drawing diplomatic blowback, with United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Gilad Erdan, and others taking up the case.
In a letter to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Huckabee said Fuld "poses no threat to the people of Australia by his actions or words."
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
opposition leaders in Australia called on Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to explain the cancellation.
"If there is a new political precedent in the standard for issuing entry visas to Australia, the Australian people should be informed as soon as possible," shadow home affairs minister Andrew Hastie said in a statement Sunday.
It’s not the first time a visa has been denied to an Israeli on political grounds, however. Last November, former justice minister Ayelet Shaked was barred from entering Australia for similar reasons when she was slated to address a conference organized by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. US conservative political commentator Candace Owens was also banned from entering the country last year.
Fuld, a long-time influencer in Israel’s high-tech scene, began advocating for Israel full-time after Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023. His social media reach in the Jewish world is considerable, with 177,000 followers on X, 156,000 followers on Facebook, 87,00 followers on Instagram, 16,800 subscribers to his YouTube channel, and 3,300 followers on TikTok.
He is also known for being the brother of Ari Fuld, an activist and social media personality who was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old terrorist in the parking lot of a shopping mall at the Gush Etzion Junction in 2018. Ari’s death was mourned by tens of thousands around the world at the time, and he is still memorialized by different funds and causes in his name.
In the letter canceling his visa, the Home Affairs Ministry cited several of Fuld’s posts that they said "denied documented atrocities and Islamophobia rhetoric, which has been received by members of the Australian community as inflammatory and concerning."
"Based on this information, I consider there is sufficient reason to conclude that the visa holder’s use of various online platforms to promote his controversial views and ideologies may lead to fostering division in the community," the letter said.
In one example cited, the Home Affairs Ministry said Fuld had contradicted "reports made by many reliable news sources that at least 112 Paleostinians had been killed and more than 750 maimed after Israeli troops opened fire" on people waiting for aid near Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
City on March 1, 2024.
Fuld had called the reports "propaganda" and "fabricated" in a lengthy post on Instagram, writing: "There was no massacre of Paleostinians in Gaza today."
An IDF probe into the incident eventually determined that the vast majority of civilian casualties in the incident were the result of thousands of people swarming the aid trucks, creating a stampede and causing people to get run over.
Friends of Magen David Adom attacked the ruling on Fuld’s visa. "We absolutely reject this," it said in a statement. Hillel has spoken to large audiences across North America, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Asia with no incident."
"The decision "is difficult to reconcile with the actual purpose of his visit, which is to speak about entrepreneurship and help raise money for emergency medical services in Israel that treat everyone, regardless of faith or background," Zionist Federation of Australia President Jeremy Leibler added. He said his organization was in direct contact with the government regarding the decision.
Fuld is now expected to address the fundraiser event by video conferencing instead of in person, Fuld noted.
ATTACK ON THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
The decision is a slap in the face for Australia’s 120,000-strong Jewish community, which has been among the hardest hit by antisemitism in the world since October 7, 2023. The country experienced more than 2,000 anti-Jewish incidents between October 2023 and September 2024, more than quadruple the number from the year before Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault that sparked the Gaza war, according to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).
In recent months, Jews there have experienced synagogues, schools, and homes Molotov cocktailed, two nurses threatening to kill Jewish patients in their hospital, and the discovery of a trailer filled with explosives said to be intended for a mass-casualty event at a Sydney synagogue.
Residents have been overwhelmingly frustrated by the failure of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government to rein in skyrocketing antisemitism, but were mildly hopeful that, after his Labor Party’s reelection last month, he would do more to protect the Jewish community in his second term. While the party now understands that antisemitism is a significant domestic issue, and has begun to make stronger efforts to fight it, Fuld’s snub is a sign that things are unlikely to improve shortly.
As the head of his country’s labour party, he is professionally required to hate Jews and Israel. Why would they expect anything else?
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