A teachers' advocacy group operating in New South Wales, Australia, calling itself Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW, has been publicly promoting the slogan "Globalize the Intifada" — a phrase that antisemitism watchdogs and legal authorities worldwide have documented as a call for indiscriminate violence against Jewish people. The group, which claims approximately 200 members drawn from within Australia's public education system, defiantly vowed to continue using the slogan even after a devastating antisemitic terror attack killed at least eleven people at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in December 2025. The exposure of this conduct by the Combat Antisemitism Movement triggered immediate public outrage, with demands that NSW Labor MP Michael Daley investigate the group's activities without delay. That educators entrusted with shaping the minds of children are openly championing rhetoric linked to terrorist violence makes this one of the most alarming antisemitism incidents to emerge from Australia's already deeply troubled post–October 7 environment.
The Slogan and Its Documented Meaning
The phrase "Globalize the Intifada" is not a neutral political expression. According to the Anti-Defamation League's official backgrounder, the slogan is a direct reference to two periods of sustained Palestinian terrorist violence against Israel — the First Intifada of the late 1980s and the Second Intifada of 2000–2005 — during which Palestinian terrorists killed more than one thousand people through suicide bombings, shootings, and stabbings on city buses, in restaurants, and at nightclubs. The ADL concludes that the chant "is generally understood as a call for indiscriminate violence against Israel, and potentially against Jews and Jewish institutions worldwide." The American Jewish Committee has similarly catalogued the slogan alongside other Hamas-associated phrases, noting its deployment at protests across New York, London, and major Western cities since October 7, 2023. To promote this slogan within the teaching profession — among individuals who hold direct influence over children — is to normalize a call for mass killing under the guise of political advocacy.
The NSW Context: After the Bondi Beach Massacre
The activities of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW cannot be understood in isolation from the catastrophic antisemitic terror attack that struck Sydney on December 14, 2025. Two gunmen opened fire on hundreds of civilians who had gathered at Bondi Beach for a public Hanukkah lighting ceremony, killing at least eleven people and wounding dozens more. Australian authorities described it as an act of terrorism deliberately targeting the Jewish community. Israeli officials and international observers had for months warned the Australian government that the normalization of phrases such as "Globalize the Intifada" at public protests was creating a climate of lethal incitement. In the immediate aftermath of the massacre, NSW Premier Chris Minns announced that "globalise the intifada" constituted hate speech and committed to banning the chant, stating plainly: "Horrific, recent events have shown that the chant 'globalize the intifada' is hate speech and encourages violence in our community."
Despite this unequivocal government position, and despite the bodies of Jewish Australians not yet buried, Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW publicly vowed to keep using the slogan. Organizer Chris Breen framed the government's response as a "political attack on free speech" and described the proposed legislative measures as "extreme legislation" targeting the Palestine movement. This posture — brazenly continuing to promote rhetoric the government had just linked to mass murder — is what prompted the Combat Antisemitism Movement to issue its public alert and demand immediate investigation by relevant authorities.
Key Facts
- Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW has approximately 200 members drawn from within the NSW public education system, giving the group direct, institutionalized access to Australian schoolchildren.
- Following the December 2025 Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre that killed at least eleven Jewish Australians, the group defiantly vowed to continue using the "Globalize the Intifada" slogan despite the NSW Premier's explicit declaration that the phrase constitutes hate speech encouraging violence.
- Antisemitic incidents in Australia surged by 300% in the year following October 7, 2023, according to reporting by CNN and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, establishing the broader epidemic of Jew-hatred into which this teachers' group's conduct fits.
- The ADL has formally documented "Globalize the Intifada" as a reference to terrorist violence responsible for over one thousand Israeli deaths, classifying it as a call for indiscriminate violence against Jews globally — not a legitimate form of political protest.
Analysis: The Radicalization of the Teaching Profession
What makes the Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW case uniquely dangerous is the institutional leverage it represents. Teachers are not anonymous protesters chanting on a street corner; they are licensed, state-sanctioned authority figures who spend hours each day with children at their most intellectually formative. When a self-described teachers' organization actively promotes rhetoric that has been linked — both legally and morally — to calls for mass murder of Jews, it represents a direct corruption of the educational mission. The NSW government's belated move to amend codes of conduct and introduce hate speech guidelines for all of the state's more than 3,000 schools, while necessary, underscores how long this radicalization was permitted to fester unchecked. As the Fox News investigation into the Bondi massacre's ideological preconditions documented, Israeli officials had repeatedly warned Australia that calls to "Globalize the Intifada" were not merely offensive speech but operational incitement — warnings that went unheeded until blood was shed on a beach.
The pattern here mirrors that identified in Canada, where a federal report found that approximately 17 percent of antisemitic incidents in Ontario's K-12 school system originated from teacher or school-sanctioned activities, with nearly half of reported incidents not even investigated by school authorities. The radicalization of educators is not a uniquely Australian problem — it reflects the systematic penetration of Western educational institutions by ideological networks that treat Islamist terror slogans as legitimate political expression. Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW is a symptom of that broader rot.
Significance: Education, Incitement, and the Future of Australian Jewry
The significance of this incident extends far beyond one advocacy group or one Australian state. When those who shape the next generation openly champion slogans calling for the globalization of violence against Jews — and do so in defiance of a government response to a mass atrocity — it signals the depth to which antisemitic incitement has been normalized in Western civil society. The demand by Combat Antisemitism and others that Michael Daley MP and NSW authorities investigate is not a call for political censorship; it is a demand that the state fulfill its most basic obligation: protecting its citizens, including its Jewish citizens, from those who would incite their murder. Australia's Jewish community, already reeling from a 300% surge in antisemitic attacks and the trauma of the Bondi massacre, deserves the unambiguous assurance that no institution — least of all its schools — will be permitted to serve as a platform for genocidal incitement dressed up as pedagogy.
The broader Western world must take note. From Sydney to Toronto to London, the infiltration of educational and professional institutions by activists willing to promote terrorist slogans represents an existential threat not only to Jewish communities but to the democratic values upon which free societies are built. Accountability must begin in the classroom.