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Clergy abuse survivors hit out at moves to ban protests outside Australian places of worship
(www.theguardian.com)
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Where is this coming from? Is it related to the arson attack on that synagogue, recently? Has there been a swathe of protests against places of worship I missed?
I'm not sure if banning protests are going to have any effect on people doing arson attacks which are already clearly illegal.
One protest outside a synagogue which inspired this latest "ban protests" idea was one organised in response to a Technion University 100 year event[1][2] which was using The Great Synagogue Sydney as the venue:
The Great Synagogue itself published on their own news page their comments on the protest, mentioning that it was not a Great Synagogue event nor was it religious:
(Their weekly news page has since been replaced with new content but search engine result snippets still had traces.)
For what it's worth, the Technion protest was organised weeks before the location was announced, so it was definitely nothing to do with it being a place of worship.
I think the arson attack and a earlier protest that was cancelled are cited as reasons.